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

Quote for today… “We are the music makers … and we are the dreamers of dreams.” – Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

•  Too bad there’s no DECD: “Donegal, county ideas for land differ – Public park suggestion not in line with district’s plan” – LancasterOnLine

• Just a handful of Columbia properties are in the six pages of the March 27 Sheriff Sales – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Oh, those trusted staffers! “York food company’s CFO took more than $600,000” – York Daily Record

• Money woes threaten to divide church – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era [NOTE: “Municipalities just raises taxes to pay for “borrowing and deficit budgeting to pay for growing staff and programs” – churches can’t.]

• “12 things that just happened that show the next wave of the economic collapse is almost here” – ItsOurEconomy.us

• Marietta man is in jail, accused of assaulting a man and endangering the welfare of two children. – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• In troubled Middletown, they’re holding meetings. – Harrisburg Patriot-News [NOTE: Last year when the borough asked for state intervention, this person commented on the Patriot-News article: “Borough tax is why Middletown looks like it does. No one can afford to improve their houses. Instead of tacking on more charges to the residents the town needs to figure out how to bring in business’. After all there isn’t much here except for a couple pizza shops, grocery stores and pharmacies. The Slum lords here over the years devalues the area. Most of my neighbors are these kind of people who refuse to fix anything on the exterior of their buildings.”]

• McDonald’s responds – Harrisburg Patriot-News

Land devastation and rape in the name of progress. Everyone needs another drug store. “Site work is under way for a new CVS Pharmacy store at the southwest corner of Marietta Avenue and Centerville Road (Dean Lee Evans/Correspondent) – SOURCE: MyHempfieldNews