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… “When fire is cried and danger is neigh, ‘God and the firemen” is the people’s cry; But when ’tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.’” – Author unknown, from The Fireman’s Journal, 18 Oct 1879

• Columbia man identified in truck-motorcycle fatality – LancasterOnLine

• “New law restricts monetary contributions by a municipal authority to a nonprofit community group to no more than $1,000” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Wa-a-h!  So what is the Media Research Center anyway? Their Website says: “The Media Research Center is proud to celebrate 25 years of holding the liberal media accountable for shamelessly advancing a left-wing agenda, distorting the truth, and vilifying the conservative movement.”

• Columbia Borough Council Meeting is tonight at 7:00 pm – Columbia Borough Website

• State Supreme Court to hear Voter ID this week – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “But as Curly, Larry and Moe repeatedly discovered, it is easier to make a plan than to carry it out.” letter to the editor in the Harrisburg Patriot-News

• UPDATES on Fern Hill Ventures (a/k/a Veterinary office where the bowling alley used to be) and the WaWa site (now Sheetz) at Columbia Avenue and Prospect Road. – West Hempfield Township minutes

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

• Thought the “holy moly” sign was appropriate as the weather front blasted through on Saturday!

• LEGAL NOTICE, Published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, Monday, September 10, 2012.  “NOTICE TO LANCASTER COUNTY RESIDENTS DROP-OFF RECYCLING CENTER The Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority maintains drop-off centers for the deposit of recyclable materials at the Authority’s Transfer Complex at 1299 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster; at the Resource Recovery Facility, Route 441, 1911 River Road, Bainbridge in Conoy Township; and at the Frey Farm Landfill, 3049 River Road, in Creswell, Manor Township. Materials accepted at these centers include: clear and colored glass food and beverage containers; metal food and beverage cans (aluminum and steel/tin); plastic bottles, and newspapers. The centers are open twenty four hours a day. All Lancaster County residents are encouraged to use these facilities.”