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

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• Today in History!
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• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today … “For love of country they accepted death … .” – James A. Garfield

• “A Lancaster County father and two of his two sons were killed in a farming accident in Kent County, Md.” – WGAL TV8

• Be alert as summer comes. Tomorrow is Heat Stroke Awareness Day.

• Columbia honors police officer, David Souders – MyColumbiaNews

• Tomorrow evening: enjoy Columbia’s Fourth Friday

• You don’t know frack: a quiz about fracking.” Click here to take the quiz! – Food and Water Watch

• PPL will open its refurbished boat launch facility off River Hill Road in Conestoga Township sometime Thursday. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Robert Reich column: “The commencement speech that won’t be given.” Reich speaks to the high cost of a college degree; the diminished chances for employment and the high debt load of education.

• The Memorial Day weekend weather is expected to be “hot.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “Elementary students in Manheim Township School District will be spending a lot less time in music, art and physical education classes and more time learning math and language arts next year.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Letters to the editors in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Pennsylvania’s beer distributors don’t want changes! – Harrisburg Patriot-News