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Quote for today… “I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.” ─ Muhammad Ali

• From the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Blood stirs talk in Marietta – Rumors are rampant about where it might have come from; police are still investigating” – “School District of Lancaster OKs its budget with 2% tax hike” – “Elanco OKs preliminary budget” – “LEGAL NOTICE: “Notice is hereby given that a business corporation known as D. Hand Inc., 425 Union Street, Columbia, PA 17512 has been dissolved under the provisions of the Business Corporation Law of 1988 (section 1977). SCOTT E. ALBERT, ESQ.. 50 East Main Street, Mt. Joy, PA 17522.” 
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• “Coffee prices keep rising” … is unsettling news for coffee drinkers. The Associated Press article goes on: “J.M. Smucker Co., the maker of grocery store stalwart Folgers and of packaged varieties of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, said Tuesday that it is raising on most of its U.S. coffee products by 11 percent, its fourth increase in a year. And Kraft Foods Inc., Peet’s Coffee and Tea Inc., and Starbucks Corp. also have recently raised their prices for brewed and packaged coffee.Unlike many other discretionary items, coffee usually emerges from a recession relatively unscathed, economists say. That’s because when money is tight, people may buy cheaper brands of coffee, but they won’t give it up completely. Americans consumed 21.7 million 60-kilogram bags of coffee in 2008, during the depths of the recession, up from 21 million the year before.”
• There’s an interesting Letter to the Editor in the Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Parties wanting ‘closed primary’ should pay for it – Last October, I received from then-Gov. Ed Rendell a document of congratulation because I voted in every election in the past 50 years. Yes, I did vote in the recent primary election, but I marked only those items where there was a choice. I left blank every listing where there was no contest. It was more than just the rain that produced the poor turnout of Lancaster County voters on May 17. A few years ago, I had the great experience being an elected Republican committee person, and did the legwork necessary to ring doorbells and urge fellow citizens to participate in this most important function. It is not hard to remember that about 25 percent of those I talked to simply told me that they could not vote because they were registered “independent.”Our commonwealth should be well past the time that this abuse of a citizen’s right is abolished.”If our state wants to continue to have primary elections for only party members, then the parties should pay 100 percent of the all the costs involved. It is an absolute abuse to use taxpayers dollars to fund an election that denies any registered voter his or her right to participate.” – Stan Buch, Manor township.