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

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• Today in History!
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today… “News is the first rough draft of history.” – Philip L. Graham, former publisher and president of the Washington Post

Hunters with drilling rigs in background – Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

• The end of hunting, fishing and clean water in Pennsylvania? Are we being fracked? You may want to read this New York Times article: “Gas Drillers Invade Hunters’ Pennsylvania Paradise.“
• Uh-Oh … Urgent Care Centers closing “Urgent Care also planned to open a third center on Locust Street in Columbia, in a former bank building being renovated to also feature luxury apartments and a coffee shop. All of the spaces were leases.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• Paterno’s football history at Penn State – Last Thursday, the Centre Daily Times produced a special commemorative newspaper supplement tracing the career of Joe Paterno at Penn State. Click here to download it.
• Most Lancaster County districts earn state’s top ratings for their students’ academic growth in 2010. “Only two districts had red ratings overall — Columbia in math and Octorara in reading. Columbia superintendent Barry Clippinger said the district needs to do a better job assuring students who are already proficient or advanced on the PSSA continue to make progress. Columbia recently implemented a Response to Intervention program in grades four through eight that provides academic supports and enrichment opportunities for all students, he said. The district also is placing more emphasis on teaching students to read nonfiction in multiple  subjects, Clippinger said, to boost literacy. ‘I would like to see a greater growth for us across all levels,’ he said. ‘Right now, we’re not doing that for all the kids.'” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
• Need more reasons to be “outraged” about the special rules for “public servants” masquerading as honorable US lawmakers? This book and the “60 Minutes” report tell how these supposedly honorable folks are involved in unethical practices that add to their booty.
• Letter to the editor from Wrightsville man