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today’s news … Saturday, December 29

today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

Quote for today… “I guess we’re going to have to go to Weis.” – Manheim shopper in this Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era article about the closing of the last locally-owned, smaller grocery store in Manheim.

  • “A Columbia man is behind bars for allegedly threatening to kill a cop who arrested him Friday for theft. Keith Fauth, 38, told Columbia police Officer Brent Smith ‘you’re dead,’ while threatening the officer and his family, police reported.” – LancasterOnLine
  • First suit filed – “It said they had failed to provide a ‘safe school setting’ or design ‘an effective student safety emergency-response plan and protocol.’” – New York Post

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perfect cliff

  • Time for these clowns to start jumping – The only ones not affected by the “fiscal cliff fiasco” are the buffoons elected to attend to the affairs of the nation. Nearly everyone else will be impacted. “11 side effects of going over the fiscal cliff” – Politico
  • Everywhere but here: Criminal activities and reports from nearly a dozen Lancaster County municipalities appeared in the POLICE LOG: “MANOR TWP.: Kevin Brightful, 24, who is currently in York County Prison, is facing numerous charges after he allegedly forged prescriptions in August for Codeine Phosphate at Rite-Aid and CVS, both on Columbia Avenue. Police said Brightful committed similar crimes in York, Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin and Lebanon counties, as well as in Maryland and New York. – MARIETTA: Thomas C. Suydam, 55, of 283 Hill St., Mountville, was charged Thursday after he allegedly backed his car into another vehicle Dec. 2 in the 400 block of East Market Street and left the scene. – EAST DONEGAL TWP.: Ruth Ann Eckert, 46, of 829 Cool Creek Road, Wrightsville, was charged Thursday in the 1200 block of River Road. – MANOR TWP.: Jason Valudes, 35, of Arlington, Va., was charged after being stopped for speeding Dec. 22 on Millersville Road near West Ridge Drive. – MANOR TWP.: Tony Shaffer, 30, of Longwood Court West, was charged after he was arrested Nov. 22 near his home, where police had responded for a domestic dispute. – MANOR TWP.: Richard Mohn, 48, no fixed address, was charged after allegedly making lewd, lascivious and threatening phone calls to a woman at Elder Court on Dec. 4 and 5.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • PennWATCH – an open window into YOUR state government – “It’s your money, find out how it is being spent.  PennWATCH lets you keep tabs on the state budget, spending, revenue, employees and performance – all in one website!” [Shouldn’t all government, including local governance, Websites look like this?]

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