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… “From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens – the garden outdoors,
the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.” – Katherine S. White

• Two Columbia men arrested in fight at Hurricane – LancasterOnLine

• Tide boy’s and girl’s teams record Friday night wins – Boy’s:73-57 overtime win over Shippensburg ; Girl’s: 69-16 romp over Lancaster County Christian. – GametimePA

• Columbia home listed at LancasterOnLine‘s Top Holiday Lights map.

(SOURCE: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)

• Now … “average winter.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• $antorum – what a guy!: “Lately, he’s been on a crusade against a dangerous attempt by the United Nations to help disabled people around the world.” – Gail Collins, columnist, The New York Times

• Ephrata’s citizens informed of break-in’s – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era [NOTE: Criminal activities from eight County municipalities and jurisdictions were listed in today’s POLICE LOG; none were listed from the county’s municipality with the “third-most police calls.”]