Carl Dodge, roastmaster at M.E. Swing Co., stands watch by an enormous Probat coffee roaster. A mechanical arm rakes through 100 pounds of beans; each batch takes about 15 minutes. Elsewhere in the South Pickett Street facility, workers bag coffee by hand. Burlap sacks of beans lay in neat stacks. Mark Warmuth, president of the [...]

Erie Times-News Published July 6, 2007 by Rachel Kaufman Their cupboards went bare then, but not this year. Members of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, masterminds behind the Greek Festival in Erie, are so committed to hospitality that when they ran out of food in 1989, the first year, they went home and made more. After [...]