{"id":278138,"date":"2026-09-03T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278138\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:30:53","slug":"presque-isle-erie-county-courthouse-several-schools-closed-due-to-severe-weather-aftermath-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/278138\/","title":{"rendered":"Presque Isle, Erie County Courthouse, Several Schools Closed Due to Severe Weather Aftermath | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe storms overnight left behind damage and power outages across the Erie area, prompting several closures Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Presque Isle State Park and Tom Ridge Environmental Center are not opening today.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie County Courthouse is closed including only the courts and county offices at the 140 W. 6th St. building.<\/p>\n<p>Classes at all of Erie\u2019s Public Schools are cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Benjamin Wiley Charter School will not hold classes due to a power outage.<\/p>\n<p>Luther Memorial Academy is also closed.<\/p>\n<p>The Community has lost power but remains operational after last nights storm.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Lee Black School is closed.<\/p>\n<p>Pre K Counts is closed<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hearts is closed.<\/p>\n<p>As of 7:25 a.m., <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/poweroutage.us\/area\/county\/733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nearly 20,000 customers in Erie County were still without power<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe storms overnight left behind damage and power outages across the Erie area, prompting several closures Thursday. Presque&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,9174,46140,1522,101743],"class_list":["post-278138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-power-outage","tag-school-closure","tag-severe-weather","tag-storm-aftermath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}