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today’s news … Saturday, October 22

today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

Quote for today… “How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold? – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  • Sunday program at Columbia Historic Preservation Society”
  • The Central York School District Board of School Directors conducts “paperless” school board meetings and posts all documents including agendas and minutes electronically. The most current and future meeting agendas and minutes are posted in one location accessible from the district’s website. Click here, scroll to ‘Board of School Directors’ and click on” Board Minutes’ or ‘Board Agenda’.” York Weekly Record
  • Jeff Reinhart’s summary of last night’s Columbia vs. Lancaster Catholic game: “Lancaster Catholic 70, Columbia 28 – Ouch, babe. Crusaders led (gulp) 63-0 at the half and called off the dogs. No Mike Burke IV (ankle) for the Crimson Tide. He might return in Week 10.”
  • Take a look at the Lancaster Newspapers’ “My Columbia News” Website to read an article about the Columbia Borough School District’s debate on property re-assessment; the article begins: “Columbia Borough School District expects an $18,000 budget shortfall for 2012-2013 resulting from property value decline on recently re-assessed real estate.” See, too, this Columbia news, views & reviews post about property assessment.
  • POLICE LOG: “EAST HEMPFIELD TWP.: A vehicle driven by Michael Waltman, 28, of Columbia, traveling south of Route 741, crossed the center line and struck a car driven by Nicholas Groff, 20, of Lancaster at Crestview Drive on Wednesday. Waltman’s vehicle then struck another car driven by Kathryn Iannacone, 48, of Lancaster. Two people were transported to hospitals for treatment of injuries.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
  • Know those emails we all seem to get? Here’s a cute one if you’ve got a minute or two: the human clock! It’s a digital display of the current time using human forms as the component hands of a clock; by clicking on the clock, the forms change to digital time. Cool diversion!
  • “Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest private employer, is scaling back the eligibility of health care coverage offered to future part-timers and dramatically raising premiums for many of its full-time workers. Industry observers say the changes could have implications for millions of other workers, as more companies on the fence could replicate its moves.” – (AP article)
  • “Lancaster County Career & Technology looks to $20 million overhaul of three schools” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era article says “Lampeter-Strasburg school board was the lone district to vote against the resolution authorizing CTC to purchase property near its Willow Street campus to house its adult nursing program.The L-S board opposed the purchase of the former Wycliffe Bible Translators building, 422 Beaver Valley Pike, because it would take the property off the L-S tax roll.
  • Another school district with a model transparency posture (agendas, minutes on line) is York Suburban; this is at their homepage: “Community Budget Meetings have been scheduled at six different schools in the York Suburban School District and at various times.  The meeting will provide an opportunity for district residents to learn about the 2012-13 budget, ask questions, and make comments.  The format for the meetings will be identical.  Parents and community members are encouraged to attend the meeting most convenient for their schedule and location.  If parents have children in different buildings, you only need to attend one meeting.
  • “More than one-third of the country supports the Wall Street protests, and even more — 58 percent — say they are furious about America’s politics.” says an Associated Press article in many newspapers. And who is surprised by this?

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