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

• Today’s Weather! 
• Today in History!
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today… “What is so rare as a day in June … ” – James Russell Lowell [Click here to read the entire poem.]

• Today is Father’s Day … Make time to let your Dad know you love him.

• “Police were investigating the apparent murder of two people at 224 Lemon Lane, Leola, Saturday and seeking information about a man believed to have been an occupant of the house.” – Lancaster Sunday News

• A home in Columbia for only $500! “DEEDS RECORDED: H. Joseph Younger and Christine E. Younger conveyed 441 Union St. to Jeffery J. Seibert for $500.” – Lancaster Sunday News

• “Alysa Poindexter, Columbia, B.A., English-professional writing, was graduated from Elizabethtown College.” – Lancaster Sunday News

Blue Postal Service collection boxes still stand on North Duke Street in downtown Lancaster. (Blaine T. Shahan/Sunday News)
[NOTE: This photo has been altered for this post by Columbia news, views & reviews.]

• Chip Smedley says, “Like dinosaurs and telephone booths, those blue curbside mail collection boxes once seen in neighborhoods all over the country are going away.” – Lancaster Sunday News

• This week’s restaurant inspections in  Lancaster County – Lancaster Sunday News
  

• This week’s restaurant inspections in York County – York Daily Record

• A complete listing of all facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia, are listed at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• “Stephen Runkle will present a lecture on the “Gettysburg Campaign to the Susquehanna River” at 7 p.m. Friday, June 29, at the National Watch and Clock Museum, Columbia. The lecture is co-hosted by Rivertownes PA USA and the Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area. Tickets are $18. Advance registration is requested; call 252-0229, ext. 4.” – Lancaster Sunday News

• “The Columbia Borough Historical Architectural Review Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, in council chambers at Columbia Borough Hall, 308 Locust St. On the agenda are: (1) 121 Walnut St., Kevin Mullen, owner: Install new entry door within an existing wooden garage door on the building’s facade.; (2) 162 Walnut St.; Matt Riggleman, owner: Replace slate roof shingles with synthetic slate shingles; install vinyl wrap on front roof cornice. and (3) 419-425 Locust St., Michael K. Warren, owner. Replace cedar shingles with standing-seam metal on pent roofs across the building’s facade.” – Lancaster Sunday News