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today’s news … Saturday, December 24

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

Quote for today… “I heard the bells on Christmas Day – Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet – The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • RUMOR!: “Has Lady Gaga purchased a house in Lancaster County?” – Harrisburg Patriot News
  • Google does the coolest “special-day” stuff with their Website! Click here; then click on each of the colored blocks from left to right.
  • “Federal, state and local government offices are closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday for the Christmas holiday. They will reopen Tuesday. Red Rose Transit Authority will have regular bus service on Saturday but will not operate on Sunday. The buses will operate on a Sunday extended schedule on Monday. Regular service will resume Tuesday.” – Lancaster OnLine post
  • Another sign that the economy may be “not great.” Yesterday’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era carried four plus pages of Sheriff sales listings. A rough count yielded 80 with five in Columbia. The listing included some “high-end” locations including a property in Bent Creek.
  • Mountville woman learns hard lesson: back-up digital files. – “Lost iPad a treasure-trove of memories: Woman hopes for return of family photos, videos” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • $250 K grant announced for Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area – MyColumbiaNews
  • POLICE LOG: “WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: A house on Cedar Terrace was entered Thursday night, police reported. Money and jewelry were stolen from the home. Police estimated losses to be $1,400. – WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Courtney Hartman, 21, and Justin Herr, 19, both of Columbia, were charged with drug offenses after police found them at a church Thursday in the 400 block of West Main Street. They were charged and released.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • “When is Christmas?” (“For those who follow Christian traditions, Christmas begins when the darkness of Christmas Eve yields to bright midnight candles and the Mass of the Angels or the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”) begins the Scripps-Howard column in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era.
  • “It’s 10 a.m., feeding time at the North Pole. And kids can watch Santa feed his reindeer live every day at that hour and again at 5 p.m., and they can tune in all day and night to see the reindeer, thanks to a new website called ReindeerCam.com.” – Read the full article here – Hanover Evening Sun
  • Attention Bon Ton credit card holders:  “A private-label credit-card provider will pay The Bon-Ton $50 million to switch its business there. The payment from Alliance Data Systems to The Bon-Ton was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission this week.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • John Lennon performs his early “Happy Christmas (War is Over)” on youtube.com. Rest well, John and Merry Christmas!

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