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Quote for today… “The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.” – Thomas Jefferson

• Congratulations to Dean’s Listers: Pennsylvania College of Technology, spring semester – from Columbia, Jacob R. Singleton. From Mountville, Zachery R. Rineer, Kent A. Williams and from Washington Boro, James A. Funk. And congratulations to these area students who earned degrees from YTI Career Institute: from Columbia, Michelle Luderers, Michelle Gonzalez, John Ehrhart; from Marietta, Paul Jarvis; from Wrightsville, Keshia Otto, Amberlee Price and Robert Sanders.
• Ain’t getting better … the economy! Manheim Auto Auction lays off 96 people (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
• Former Zug chef buys Roosevelt Tavern (York Daily Record)
• Longer “happy hours” (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
• “Voters get more say in school tax rate” (York Dispatch)