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

Quote for today… “Yeah I can’t find it on my phone but I read it. Also that’s what the officers told me at the scene. I was one of the first people to run up to the cars when they crashed. It was literally right outside my front door.” – Bev, commenter to the MyColumbiaNews article about the Wednesday car crash in Columbia.

• Check road conditions with this updated look at the highway cameras around the area – click on the new tab above: WEATHER, TRAFFIC, ETC.

• Nope! Never was an ice cream cone on top.

• Columbia High School senior Jeffrey Carroll is “Teen of the Week” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era.

• Volunteers answer the phones? “Congratulations to all of our great supervisors for keeping their promise to the citizens who elected them. We are very lucky to have three great supervisors and a great staff from our manager down to the volunteers that answer the phone.” A reader comment to this article about 12 years with no tax increase in Lancaster Township. – LancasterOnLine

• This jurisdiction of nearly 14,000 outsources law enforcement, too.

• Extreme cold is coming; but what’s the record low for Lancaster County? – Weather.com

• New exhibit at former mayor’s Civil War Museum – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• We like this paragraph from a letter to the editor a the Harrisburg Patriot-News: “Have reasonable expectations about a coach. Hire someone who will coach young men in football and in life, and let the chips fall where they will. If the coach stays and becomes a legend, fine. If he fails or moves on, that’s fine too. That’s the general order of things. Joe Paterno was an anomaly, which is why he was so revered. He isn’t coming back and he isn’t going to be replicated.”