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today’s news … Saturday, November 5

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

Quote for today… “Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.” – Mark Twain

  • “Due to the Bond Payment for the Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Sewer Bills will increase by 20% in January 2012” – posted at the borough Website.
  • Andy Rooney Dies – November 05, 2011 — NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature “60 Minutes” commentaries about life’s large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old. Even then, he said he wasn’t retiring. Writers never retire. But his life after the end of “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” was short: He died Friday night, according to CBS, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary.
  • Nationwide Emergency Alert System Test … Wednesday, November 9.
  • Perspectives on last night’s game from llleaguesports.com: “Donegal 49, Columbia 34– Indians get in; get Bishop McDevitt in Round 1 if Crusaders beat Harrisburg on Saturday. A McD loss, and Donegal gets L-S. Tide slips out of 1-seed in Single-A, but is No. 2 and will host Millersburg in the semis.” and Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Donegal and Columbia put on an offensive showcase Friday night on “the Hill,” and when the dust settled, it was the Indians stemming the Tide, 49-34, in the regular-season, Section Three finale for both teams.”
  • POLICE LOG: “MANOR TWP.: Police have charged Daniel Enchautegui, 19, and a 17-year-old male, both from Columbia, for several thefts from vehicles earlier this year. Both men are charged with five counts of theft from a motor vehicle, one count of theft by unlawful taking and one count of criminal conspiracy. The juvenile was charged through the county’s juvenile probation office. Enchautegui was arraigned and committed to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
  • An article in today’s Intelligencer Journal/New Era deals with Senate Bill 2011, PA Senator Lloyd Smucker’s introduced bill to provide tax credits for the rehabilitation of historic structures. The bill “would apply only to commercial renovation projects and would be limited to structures within designated historic districts, and statewide the program would be capped at $10 million annually. Twenty-five percent of the renovation cost would be eligible per project, for a maximum of $500,000 per year.”
  • A sample ballot (sample ballot) and a list of voting locations (list of voting places ) appears in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era. The sample ballot contains the countywide offices only; each municipality will have a separate local offices ballot as well.
  • “A rally to promote accountability among U.S. financial institutions will be held outside Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Lancaster on Saturday. The rally, being organized by members of the American Dream Movement, is being held in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It will begin at 10 a.m. at Binns Park, 100 N. Queen St. The park is next to the bank. The American Dream Movement is inspired by protests in Wisconsin and fueled by what it describes as “right-wing attacks on the middle class and the poor.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
  • Today is “Move Your Money” day. Want to see which banks took bail out money? Click here.

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