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Quote for today … from George Washington’s Farewell Address: “However combinations or associations … may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion..”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  George Washington, 1796

• from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Columbia teachers OK wage freeze” and “Area students named to Penn State dean’s list (fall semester)” includes these area students: from Columbia – Tara Anspach, Derrick Armold, Mary Beaston, Alexander Bouril, Elizabeth Edkin, Sascha Frost, Justin Fuhrman, Victoria Grice, Luke Grice, Joel Haberstroh, George Ragheb, Anna Rubuccio, Katie Shelley, Andrew Torchia, Julie Vardaro and Joseph Zeamer. From Marietta: Lindsay Bollinge, Stephanie Dannan, Jeffrey Karli, Alexandra Loder, Taylor Moran, Krystle Padilla, Amber Smith, Kayla Wallace and Laura White. From Mountville: Danielle Blackburn, Rebecca Bomberger, Daniel Cless, Mark Cloud, Kaitlin Crawford, Brian Davidson, Brooke King, Kai Liu, Thomas Mueller, Carley Richardson, Ginnie Schroll, Stephen Vlassis and Daniel Weise. From Washington Boro: Grant Elledge, Chelsea Kanagy, Holly Underkoffler and Lisa Ward.
• It is not a good sign when a “district spokesman Ryan Argot refused to provide the information.” Read more about this from today’s Harrisburg Patriot News: “West Shore School District mulls budget with tax increase“
• Jack Brubaker, aka The Scribbler, in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era writes about the pig that swam the Susquehanna in today’s column. According to Jack’s column “A New era Reporter claimed” in an April 27, 1925 article that a Washington Boro farmer owned a pig that “had swum most of the way across the river, which is more than a mile and a half wide at that point.” 
• Reminder for history buffs; you can click the “Today in history” link at the top of each day’s “Today’s news” for interesting events from the past. Today, for instance, is the anniversary of the “Hindenburg explosion and crash.”
• from the York Dispatch: “Gas prices could slow job growth this year” – An Associated Press story; gee, ya’ think?
• Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory? “PREDICTED IN MARCH 2010: Staging bin Laden’s ‘Death’.” According to this article from The Wisdom Fund on March 25, 2011, “It appears that we are being primed for the ‘death’ of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.  Attorney General Eric Holder told a House panel this month that bin Laden ‘will never appear in an American courtroom.'”Others who have examined the evidence, and the ‘bin Laden tapes,’ have concluded that bin Laden is dead.”US Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted that the US has had no reliable information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden in years. But the US needs a neat ending to its war on Afghanistan.”Staging bin Laden’s death will be seen as a fitting end to this genocidal war for the control of energy resources. Of course it will have to be done so that visual identification is not possible.”We suspect that when bin Laden is ‘killed,’ we’ll just have to trust the folks that lied us into war to confirm they got him.”

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