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

Quote for today… “Downtown Columbia my friend, is on the rise !, Less then five years from now the rental price on downtown store fronts will be triple what it is today.” – From a post by Anonymous at Cole Umber’s Columbia PA 17512.

• Here’s a great read about Columbia’s disparate code enforcement at Cole Umber’s site, too: “A comment from an aggrieved citizen.”

• Tide rolls – Sunday News and Tide steamrolls – GameTimePA
  

• Gee, relatively newly opened restaurant in York fails food inspection: “Violations are that the person in charge does not have adequate knowledge of food safety in this food facility as evidenced by this non-compliant inspection and repeat violations.” Can you believe this? A chain restaurant with no one in charge with adequate food safety knowledge, again? Why would anyone go there?
  

• Recent Lancaster County restaurant inspections – LancasterOnLine

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia, are listed at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• No big surprise from a logistics standpoint, but head-to-head morning newspapers – a real rarity for a market the size of York. But citizens will be served. – The York Dispatch

• Tough times: school reduces programs, cuts five sports teams – Sure beats continued spending and borrowing. – The York Dispatch

• What a day yesterday was! Bright sunshine with brilliant blue skies made it a day for motorcycles, some short-sleeved shirts and smiles. Patches of grass appeared though the snow cover, and the oil burner fired up a whole lot less. But … the vortex is coming again – Harrisburg Patriot-News.