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

Quote for today… “”It’s becoming an unmanageable situation for Columbia …” – Laura Cowburn, Asst. to the Supt. for Business Services, Columbia Borough School District, in this Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era article that contains information about the School Board’s acceptance of a L.E.R.T.A. (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance) resolution; a preliminary budget that would “raise taxes by 11.5 percent to 30.51 mills” 

• SNOW EMERGENCY IN COLUMBIA is being lifted today at noon –Borough Website – [Nice going, Columbia Borough!]

• Murder-suicide in York County – York Daily Record

• Middletown’s Website announces the re-opening of fire station as “warming station” – Middletown Borough Website

• Extreme cold brings significant fuel increases, especially propane – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Golly, gee wiz: “Carroll Township Police seek man who urinated in store” – York Daily Record

• The York Dispatch goes morning – The York Dispatch

• In case you missed it, Administrative Law Judge recommends against Columbia Water Company rate hike: “PUC Conducts Binding Poll on Columbia Water Co. Rate Increase Request” – Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission press release

• The trail

• the recommended decision

• Any of this info at the Columbia Water Company Website? What do you think?

• Maybe at the Borough Website? Nope! 

• What’s going on up there? Why is the sun going quiet? – The Conversation

• Pennsylvania’s smokin’ – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Letter writer asks, “Is anyone else sickened by the billboard on Interstate 81 near exit 66 showing a baseball glove, apple pie and an assault rifle with the caption underneath saying ‘Pure American?’” – PennLive.com

• What’s SlideFire?