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Quote for today… “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.”  – Henri Frederick Amiel

• From www.lancasteronline.com: Now reported as a fatal accident: “Emergency crews called to industrial rescue in Marietta”
• From the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: Elizabeth Hooper was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at Ursinus College, where she is a junior economics major. A 2008 graduate of Columbia High School, she is the daughter of Mike and Amy Hooper of Columbia. – “Solanco board OKs 2.9% tax increase.“
• We (nine-year old and I) planned to visit the Turkey Hill Experience today because the early week forecast was for “extreme heat.” We did and we had a wonderful time. We thoroughly enjoyed the EXPERIENCE. We’ll tell you more about the visit tomorrow. Turkey Hill Experience lowers admission prices and this page one story in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
• A Columbia page (almost)! You’ll have to pick up a copy of today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era  to see two articles about Columbia. The articles appear on page B6, a zoned edition page not yet online). Columbia sets graduation Friday lists the graduation class by name. Chef stirs interest for preparing healthy food is an article about a recipe preparation presentation at Columbia Junior/Senior High School: the dish ratatouille. “The goal of the event was to give parents and students ideas to incorporate healthy food into their daily lives. Smart Partner (the program presenter) provides wellness presentations and product support to food service operations in the region.” 
• “Anemic jobs numbers, cratering home prices, stock market plunges — the only upside to all these depressing figures, says Gary Rivlin, is they may force Washington to stop obsessing over the deficit and fix unemployment.” Read the rest of this article from The Daily Beast here.
• Discord at York Council meeting (Appears they have one of those municipal managers, too – see the reader comment at the end of the article) in the York Daily Record. (Related opinion in the York Dispatch: “EDITORIAL: ‘Bold’ — or risky?)
  – “It’s not happening yet, but they keep on making those predictions!”
• They get to make that decision, too! From the Harrisburg Patriot-News: “Harrisburg City Council to decide if gas station redesign meets historic district guidelines.” – and the reader comments from this article, “Annville Township seeks way to finance upgrade to wastewater plant,” may prove to be telling indicators about citizen attitudes and the mood across the country. (bake sale? – It never ends! They keep pounding the taxpayers into debt, when does the taxpayer stop rolling over and stop funding this out of control taxation without representation? We fought England over this very issue. It’s time to fight back and end this tyranny of raising prices and taxing! – This is federally mandated? Seek your financing with Obama! – Them’s the breaks, folks. Environmental protection is more important than your utility/tax bill. The Bay is going to be around a lot longer than you so get over yourselves. – Its crap, the residents will pay… thats what happen to me and various others in Dover, they upgraded the system and now I pay in installments, because each quarter my water/sewer/trash is averaging about $400…the trash is 50 of that and the rest is me paying for the upgrade. I want to get out of the place but the housing market isn’t exactly booming either.)