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

• Today’s Weather! – Today in History! – The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• Lancaster County 9-1-1 map
• York County 9-1-1 map
• Lancaster County police incident map

Quote for today… “If we all practice separately that’s good . . . but we’re not going to play really good music until we practice together.” – Don Smith of The Center for Safe Schools said in a York Daily Record article about the need for police departments’ coordinated response to school incidents.

• If it’s accurate, there is a Council Committee of the Whole meeting tonight at 6:00 pm – Update the Website.

• It’s page one news: “How much can Columbia bare? Club seeks OK for nude dancing” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era – See this Columbia news, views & reviews article, too.

• Be sure to read the Columbia pastor’s comments folowing the above article.

• Municipal pension funds will be big PA problem – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• 20 municipalities considering new Lancaster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as “shelter of choice.”: “Mayor Leo Lutz of Columbia provided a copy of borough policy, which says stray dogs are held temporarily at the borough shed.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Art teacher bites back in letter to the editors in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• And we used to walk to school five miles through the snow and cold! –  “Temperatures in Lancaster County dipped below zero for the third time in a week, the New Era reported. The official temperature reading for Lancaster was 11 below zero, but temperatures as low as 18 below zero were reported across the county.The coldest official temperature ever recorded in Lancaster County was 27 below zero in 1912, according to the New Era. (Jan. 29, 1963)” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

SOURCE: Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Yep, it happens in  Quarryville on Saturday – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Meanwhile across the state, “Of these 115 predictions on record so far, Punxsutawney Phil has predicted an “early spring” 15 times (13%). As to his accuracy, according to the StormFax Weather Almanac and records kept since 1887, Phil’s predictions have been correct 39% of the time.” – Wiki-pedia and here’s a link to “that” groundhog’s Website.