Sunday, July 13, 2008

Saving the streets

Link to July 13 Erie Times-News article.

Excerpt:
Paul Gambill learned to dodge the gunfire the first week he and his family moved into their house at East 23rd and Holland streets.

It was October 1993, and the city of Erie was fighting a surge in drug-related violence that turned some already troubled neighborhoods into a modern-day version of the Wild West.

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