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Quote for today… “Applause waits on success.” – Benjamin Franklin

• Roger Clemens pitching in Lancaster and York? Could be! – 50 year-old “Rogers Clemens has signed with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League and is expected to start for them on Saturday at home against Bridgeport. The Atlantic League also includes the York Revolution.” (And the Barnstormers.) – York Dispatch

• Norquist: Ryan and Romney are wrong about defense spending – Foreign Policy

• Build it and they do come: Ephrata’s “new Whistle Stop Plaza, a project costing about $380,000 will connect the existing southern portion of the borough’s rails-to-trails path to the as-yet unbuilt northern leg. ” … very little borough money was spent on the plaza project. Ephrata received $302,541 from a federal Hometown Streets Grant for the front part of the project and $76,333 from a Lancaster County Urban Enhancement Grant for the rear section. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

Two kayakers land at the boat launch in Columbia’s River Park along the Susquehanna River Sunday afternoon. Columbia Borough painted the reminder about life jackets on the steps leading to the water. (Marty Heisey) – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Respect the river – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Can a community afford “being independent?”: Financial crisis in Middletown. – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “PetSmart grant helps Lower Paxton Township control stray cats” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• From the Flashback Lancaster column in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “The Intelligencer Journal reported on an attack against a Columbia silk mill worker. The man, who had been working at the mill through a lengthy and bitter strike, was asleep with his wife when their house was dynamited. The explosive charge had been placed against the outside cellar wall. It broke the foundation on that side of the home, broke all the windows in the house and covered the interior with shattered plaster. Neither the mill worker nor his wife was hurt in the incident. Police suspected the attack was related to the labor conflicts at the mill. (Aug. 23, 1937)