{"id":34704,"date":"2025-11-15T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34704\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T01:59:09","slug":"erie-mourns-loss-of-sherrod-key-player-in-bayfront-progress-local-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34704\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Mourns Loss of Sherrod, Key Player in Bayfront Progress | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-11-14 180512.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"369\" height=\"251\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Sherrod was deeply involved in numerous organizations and community projects across Erie, including Bayfront NATO, the Minority Community Investment Coalition, and Our West Bayfront.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond his civic contributions, Sherrod was a standout athlete, playing football at Mercyhurst University from 1981 to 1985. His achievements earned him a place in the university\u2019s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Bishop Dwane Brock, a close friend of Sherrod, will share reflections on his life and legacy during Erie News Now at 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherrod was deeply involved in numerous organizations and community projects across Erie, including Bayfront NATO, the Minority Community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12183,21636,136,138,137,6895,21635],"class_list":{"0":"post-34704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-athlete","9":"tag-bayfront-nato","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-mercyhurst-university","14":"tag-sherrod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34704","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=34704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}