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Quote for today… “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.  .” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter

• “A 17-year-old Lancaster girl was critically injured in a two-vehicle wreck in East Hempfield Township Wednesday night, police reported. The crash occurred in the area of 1026 Lititz Road, just off Manheim Pike, at 10:47 p.m., township police said.
  Katelyn Elliott, 17, of the 2600 block of Valley View Drive, and the other driver, Kristina Clayton, 39, of the 200 block of Poplar Street, Columbia, were taken to a local hospital for treatment after the wreck.” – LancasterOnLine
  Read more: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/760044_UPDATED–Girl–17—critical–after-accident-in-East-Hempfield-Township.html#ixzz29lIIPUpC
• Tall tales elsewhere, too: “Man claims Bigfoot damaged Winnebago in Lykens” – Fox43.com

• Tonight, volleyball – Columbia, the Section Three champ, plays Penn Manor, the No. 3 seed from Section One, at 5:30 p.m.” and…

• Football – “Columbia at Elco: Crimson Tide’s Nick Nobile leads Section Three in receptions. Raiders RB Cameron Strause is the section’s top rusher. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Columbia’s Police Department is partner in “Project Lifesaver” – MyColumbiaNews

• Opinion: “The shortfalls of ‘Obamacare’” – Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D., in The New England Journal of Medicine

• Another print death in 2013: “After 80 years in print, (Newsweek) the newsmagazine adopts an all-digital format.” – The Daily Beast

• Lancaster and York Countians listed at the YDR.com “Boy Scout ‘Perversion’ Files 1959 – 1985.” – The Website for the York Daily Record/York Sunday News, has included this database. “Search by state, city or name to see those included in the Boy Scouts of America ‘ineligible volunteer’ files that were released on Oct. 18, 2012. The files were evidence in an Oregon lawsuit in 2010 that resulted in the largest judgment ever against the Boy Scouts in a molestation case. The Boy Scout tried to keep the files secret, but media outlets opposed the move and in June the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that they should be made public after victim information had been redacted.”

• “Again and again, decade after decade, an array of authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others accused of molesting children, a newly opened trove of confidential papers shows.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “The transition to the new (Keystone) tests is causing problems for schools as they try to prepare students for an assessment that is more difficult than the PSSA and includes material many of them haven’t studied for years — if at all.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• POLICE LOG: “WEST HEMPFIELD TWP.: Richard E. Eisenberger Jr., 31, of Columbia, was charged with robberies Oct. 10 at Getty Mart, on Highland Drive, and Oct. 11 at Turkey Hill, Columbia Avenue, Mountville. Police said he displayed a large knife during the incident at Getty Mart. Eisenberger was committed to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era