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

Quote for today… “”We are beyond sounding the alarm; we are beyond hitting the panic button.” – Ed Mann, Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner, sounding the alarm for the sustainability of  volunteer fire departments in this Hanover Evening Sun article: “Adams County officials consider fire tax.”

• Woman beater gets jail time – LancasterOnLine

• No change for 98: Pa. Supreme Court backs GOP plan to redraw state’s legislative boundaries” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• “How safe is your hospital?” Click here to find out the scores for Lancaster County’s and York County’s hospitals. – HospitalSafetyScore

• Penn State/Hershey gets “worse than average” scores – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “Taxpayers in Hempfield School District will pay 2 percent more in taxes next year, if a final budget package approved by the school board Tuesday moves forward in June.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• “Adopt a spy camera” may work here too: “For $1,000, you can adopt a security camera in Lancaster.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• In East Hempfield Township, a “standing-room-only crowd of 80 or so people” attended a meeting “expressing concerns about the area’s growing traffic and also water issues.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Check out the rhubarb recipes and more from the Produce Geek. Today’s market day, too! Yum.

• Experience Lancaster County’s history at the new museum or at LancasterHistory.org

• POLICE LOG: “MANOR TWP.: A 76-year-old resident reported that an unauthorized $500 purchase had been charged to his credit card in the last few weeks. – MANOR TWP.: Jonathan Garriga-Delgado, 25, of Locust Street, Columbia, was charged after he punched a woman in the mouth Friday in the first block of Donnerville Road, violating a protection from abuse order. The woman was treated at an area hospital. Garriga-Delgado was released on $10,000 unsecured bail.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• The Internet continues to grow, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reports 2,749 million Internet users for 2013 Q1. By world regions, the estimates given by ITU are the following:
  – Africa, 140 million users.
  – Arab States, 141 million users.
  – Asia & Pacific, 1,269 million users.
  – CIS, 145 million users. [Columbia news, views & reviews NOTE: The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) nations are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union.]
  – Europe, 467 million users.
  – The Americas, 582 million users.