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… “The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

• Holiday lights test: You may have noticed that four of the newly installed light poles near the corner of Locust and Third Street are wrapped with bright holiday lighting. If you walk downtown at night, you’ll see that two contain multi-colored lights and two have white lighting. Look closed and you’ll see that each of the colored and white lighted poles are slightly different. Maybe, Columbia will have holiday lighting this year!

• Thieves steal English Bulldog from Springettsbury Two. – York Daily Record

• Crusaders mauled by McDevitt – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• 2,000 US deaths – $587,500,000,000,000 spent (and counting) – 10 plus years to learn what the Soviet Union learned: There’s no difference. “Now it can be told: United States government auditors are finally acknowledging that Afghan security forces will be incapable of defending the nation from the Taliban after Western forces withdraw in 2014.” – Column by Joseph Brinkley, MetroWest Daily

• Some pay cut: “Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has taken a pay cut, but he’s still making $600,000 this year; (he) is receiving that salary for being a tenured professor-on-leave in Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• More on the Ephrata Hospital-Wellspan partnership – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• POLICE LOG: “LANCASTER: Daijha M. Cole, 18, of Locust Street, Columbia, was arrested and charged Sunday after yelling, screaming profanities and arguing while standing in the middle of East Chestnut Street, police said.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era