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

Quote for today … “Good morning, I.P. Lancaster Newspapers publisher Robert M. Krasne met with members of the editorial department after the announcement this morning and reaffirmed the company’s commitment to publish a newspaper seven days a week.” – LancasterOnline‘s response to a reader comment chiding that Lancaster Newspapers would follow Harrisburg’s lead in three-day-a-week newspaper publishing. Yesterday, Lancaster Newspapers announced the hiring of John Kilpatrick III, the long-time publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Trees have the look of fall as the leaves have fallen near the playground at Grantley Park in Spring Garden Township Thursday. (Randy Flaum)

• Columbia PD news release

• The photo is spectacular; “It’s going to be a little cooler than normal, but nothing earth-shattering.” – York Dispatch

• Photographic lobotomy: an opinion – Editor & Publisher

• West Donegal Township resident sounds off about KOZ decision in southern Lancaster County in letter to the editor in today’s daily newspaper: “Future generations will wish we had taken back the Keystone Opportunity Zone subsidy … .”

• The cost of buffoonery in downtown Clowntown: $24,000,000,000+ – ABCNews

• In a published legal notice today, the Columbia Food Bank has filed with the PA Department of State for incorporation: The purpose of the corporation is the establishment of a charitable food bank for the poor.”