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today’s news … Friday, November 11

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

Quote for today… ““I would call lack of candor the biggest dirty little secret in business.” – Jack Welsh

  • Thank you, Cloister Car Wash. Our barber reminded us that Cloister Car Wash offers free car washes for all veterans on Veterans’ Day!
  • Fracking! If it happens in Wyoming; it’ll happen in Pennsylvania, too. “As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up alarming levels of underground pollution.” – ProPublica.com
  • “A Wrightsville man with prior convictions for making terroristic threats was sentenced to federal prison Thursday for illegally possessing body armor.” – York Dispatch
  • Yeah, it is OK for “Students to text parents to say bus driver drunk” – York Dispatch
  • “Remains of war dead dumped in landfill” – Washington Post
  • This opinion from a writer for The Daily Beast (Newsweek) is a particularly direct impression about the failures at Penn State and in “big time” collegiate football programs.
  • Alabama’s largest county: Bankrupt; follows Harrisburg. More likely to follow.
  • PennDOT PRESS RELEASE: The Route 462 bridge over the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks in Mountville Borough, Lancaster County, was reopened to traffic at around 11 o’clock yesterday morning. The bridge had been closed for a bridge deck replacement project since mid-February.
  • LEGAL NOTICE published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, November 11, 2011. FICTITIOUS NAME: Crystal Stough did file in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on or about 08-03-2011 registration of the name: RELEASE HAIR & NAIL SALON under which she intends to do business at 17 S. 3rd St., Columbia, PA 17512 pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Assembly December 16, 1982, Chapter 3 known as the “Fictitious Name Act.”
  • PennDOT PRESS RELEASE: “11/10/2011 – PennDOT Reminds Candidates to Remove Campaign Signs – District 8 Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding candidates to remove their campaign signs from along state roads.When PennDOT workers have to remove campaign signs, it takes them away from working on important highway maintenance and safety projects. Campaign signs left along roadways may pose the following risks: Reduced sight distance at intersections; Possible harm to animals (wire posts could cut animals, and the plastic signs could be mistakenly eaten by animals); Plastic signs that blow off their posts could clog drains; and Wire posts left behind may cause safety hazards to PennDOT employees when they mow roadside vegetation.”
  • Three and one-half pages of Sheriff Sale of Real Estate properties appear in the classified pages of today’s Intelligencer Journal/New Era; several Columbia properties are listed.
  • Two killed in more York shootings last night – York Daily Record

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