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Quote for today… “It makes no difference who you vote for — the two parties are really one party representing 4 percent of the people.” – Gore Vidal [EDITOR’S NOTE: Make that 1%!]

• Communications gaffe – Toys for Tots items not stolen – LancasterOnLine
  
• F&M Class of 1971 graduate applauds Columbia High School practices in letter to the editor – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• This letter to the editors by Reverend Jerry T. Ulmer of Columbia appears in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Why and what is going on with our country that was founded by our forefathers on prayer, that have had a ruling passed down by the Circuit Court of Appeals to a few school boards stating that they can’t start their meetings with prayer anymore? That’s why there’s so much turmoil and other problems today that we must face. Because we have excluded prayer in seeking the Lord’s guidance in our daily activities, meetings, etc.”
• “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday for the first time that fracking might be to blame for causing groundwater pollution.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
• GOBAGs on the Penn State Board? This Harrisburg Patriot-News editorial thinks so and challenges an end to that.
• “Columbia society continues effort to replant trees” – MyColumbiaNews
• Citizens Bank to close office in York’s Continental Square – York Dispatch