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… “We raise funds for them, they’re shooting themselves in the foot.” – Kathleen Dissinger, member of the Ephrata Pioneer Auxiliary. Public safety, power, money:The story in Ephrata – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• What happened at last night’s “committee-of-the-whole” meeting? Where’s the agenda? Columbia news, views & reviews has been publishing agenda and notes of meetings on the morning after. Circumstances prevented our ability to attend last night’s meeting. No record of the meeting appears in today’s daily newspaper. Perhaps there’ll be a summary of the meeting posted at the Borough’s Website (Update the Website!)? N-a-a-h!

• “The state Department of Environmental Protection says there’s no evidence to list the main stem of the Susquehanna River as impaired.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era [NOTE: Wonder if river’s edge properties raw sewage releases into the river doesn’t count?]

• LEGAL NOTICE published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, January 29, 2013 – “LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Columbia Municipal Authority will be held on Friday February 1, 2013 at 1:00 pm in the Borough Municipal Building, 308 Locust St., Columbia, PA to discuss the Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Project and any other Authority Business. If you are a person with a disability wishing to attend and require an accommodation to participate in the meeting, please contact the Borough Office at 684-2467. Norman B. Meiskey III Borough Manager”

• Letter to the editors in today’s Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• York Hospital has second jumping suicide – York Daily Record

• Mt. Joy demotes police chief – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• JCPenney’s sales are back – USAToday [And another instance of corporate “dumassediness” reverts to what was working before hiring someone with just a rehashed dumass idea reinforcing the tenet that bad leadership just screws up everything.]

• LEGAL NOTICE published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, January 19, 2013 – “LEGAL NOTICE The regularly scheduled meeting of the West Hempfield Township Zoning Hearing Board will be held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM in the West Hempfield Township Municipal Building located at 3401 Marietta Avenue, Lancaster, PA to hear the following cases: 1. Case 1160 – Joseph Meyer (Allimax Farm) continued from January 15, 2013 with decision to be rendered. 2. Case 1163 – Susquehanna Fishing Tackle, 1226 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, PA, for a variance to Section 707.4 for the required number of parking spaces to allow a retai lstore and warehouse on property currently owned by R. P. Williams, Inc., located at 3992 Locust Grove Road, zoned C-1. Daryl S. Peck, Secretary West Hempfield Township Zoning Hearing Board”