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Quote for today … “And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.“ – Joseph Drake

• Some nerve: Round-The-Clock Diner co-owner wants to buy York’s old Post Office Building but … “The York County real estate investor who expects to buy the historic downtown post office owes the city nearly $100,000 in delinquent sewer and trash bills.” – York Daily Record

• yesterday’s decisions impact today; today’s, tomorrow! “As local school districts try to ease the pain of cuts for 2012-13, they’re facing the reality that the hurt is expected to continue, with pension costs projected to hit a rate of 28 percent by 2019-20, from the current 12.36 percent.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Memorial Day events in Columbia: “Columbia will host events throughout the day. The Bainbridge Band will kick things off with a 12:30 p.m. concert in Locust Street Park. A memorial ceremony will follow at 1 p.m. with local attorney Ken Gardner as grand marshal and main speaker. At 2:30 p.m., a parade will step off at 10th and Manor Streets.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Memorial Day events in Marietta: “The Marietta Memorial Day Parade Committee will hold its annual parade at 11 a.m. It will form at Riverview Elementary School and travel down Market Street and Bridge Street to the Marietta Cemetery, where a service will take place. Vietnam veteran Thomas Youndt will serve as grand marshal, and Maj. Marcus Snow of the U.S. Army Reserves will serve as guest speaker at the service.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/NewEra

• This evening: enjoy Columbia’s Fourth Friday

• Vo-Tech staff cuts: “Lancaster County Career & Technology Center has “curtailed” four programs that officials say have low enrollment, and the center will cut four positions as a result.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• What’s next for PA schools? “Are our children condemned to spend their lives in drudgery, drilling endlessly in reading, writing and arithmetic in order to pass PSSA tests, forgoing the arts, music, and sports, no band or chorus or football or science labs or home ec or wood shop? Will property taxes keep rising as districts struggle to pay pensions which will reach 28 percent of payroll by 2019?” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Sure … and donkeys fly and there’s a tooth fairy!!! “A state official (DCED secretary, C.Allen Walker) makes no apologies for his family’s companies receiving more than $325,000 in 1999 for keeping land in Clearfield County eyed for a Pennsylvania National Guard tank training facility off the market for four years.”