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… “Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria had peace and calm until Washington intervened belligerently.” – from an opinion article by Steven Lendman, Planned Regime Change in Syria

• Congratulations, McKenna Munoz, Our Lady of the Angels sixth-grader – Click here to read her winning entry!

• Duty. Honor. Country. 2011 Veteran of the Year awardee.

• Vietnam veteran? Yes. War hero? Maybe. Whack job? For sure. “McCain calls for air strikes on Syria” – Government Executive

• “This Sunday, Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum proudly opens a new yearlong exhibit: ‘The Golden Age of an American Art Form: The Lancaster Long Rifle.’ Piecing together an unprecedented collection, some 70 long rifles made in Lancaster County between the 1770s and 1840s will be on display for close-up admiration at the state museum’s exhibit gallery, located in the visitor center, 2451 Kissel Hill Road.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era [NOTE:Here’s a link to the Lancaster County Longrifles.]

• The first dandelion of the season; a mild winter yields an early dandelion.

• Letter to the editor from today’s Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• It just keeps on with these trusted folks in not-for-profit organizations; this time in Chester County as “A local fire official was arrested Friday on charges of embezzlement and fraud after funds were removed from the bank accounts of a historic Chester County firefighters’ association.” – West Chester Daily Local News

• Here’s something you don’t see every day: “A fire chief in northeast Ohio says a drug lab in the room of a nursing home resident has caused a fire that killed one person and injured six others. Ashtabula fire Chief Ron Pristera says the man died Monday, following the Sunday night fire at Park Haven Nursing Home. He says the lab was making methamphetamine.” – USA Today

• Within five years, Turnpike to be all E-Z-Pass? – Harrisburg Patriot News
  

• Ricky sang about just one poor little fool …

• Learn more about Newspaper-In-Education Week here.