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

Quote for today… “Haters should at least get their insults right. Is it Sculumbia or Scumbia? By hte way, either one is just too clever for words. Congrats!” – Philbert Lensely, probable nom de guerre or nom de plume of commenter at LancasterOnLine’s facebook page about the Smithsonian article; Philbert’s made retort comments to several of the comments.

This year’s Gary E. Reeser Memorial Award recipients Charles E. Peterson, Jr., PRSBA and Laura E. Cowburn, PRSBA were congratulated and joined by past award recipients at PASBO’s Celebration event last week.(SOURCE: PA Association of School Board Officials facebook page, March 18 post) There’s also this article at MyColumbiaNews.

• Overkill: How many days will the McCaskey teacher be front page fodder? Never see this with other cases.

• “Comcast ties to cities, states run deep, could help sell magadeal” – PoliticoPro

• A reader asks: “In the wake of hiring a new superintendent, I see on the Columbia Borough SD’s website – another entire tier of administration –  how much will this cost?
  I know Dr. Babic is retiring – do we need a different principal and a C & I person?” We don’t know the answer to the questions. Does anyone?

• Because the school district uses an outside vendor, you’ll have to google Columbia Borough School District and then click on the Job Posting at the left to see the above page.

• Here are the salaries for Columbia Borough School District according to OpenPAGov.org

• Housing rental “Affordability gap” – LancasterOnLine

• Bodies in the Bridge pylons – not true says Columbian Jim Haug in the Scribbler column in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Items discussed at last night’s meeting: The recent Historic North Third Streets meeting – The mayor’s confidentiality breach and uninvited intrusion at a meeting with LASA – The borough’s lethargy in posting information to its Website – The promotion of a “Top place to visit” accord – The prospect of a significant contribution to the community by Judy McKonly – A plea to rescue the Cherry Street Guest Home – The prospect of the borough’s annual financial report at the April meeting – Squashed rumor of a “Fire Tax” in the borough – fire company consolidation progress – traffic survey on Ninth Street with reports of vehicles traveling at speeds of 61 to 70 miles per hour while most obeyed the posted speed limit – The kayak lease agreement – A citizen’s observation about codes violations at various properties on Perry Street – “the girls at the window” – “tree topping” – We’ll try to report more on these items as we review our notes in a day or two.

• “Things such as calling women ‘girls’ but not calling men ‘boys’ or referring to a collective group as ‘guys’ are forms of subtle sexism that creep into daily interactions.” – ScienceDaily

• Thank you councillor! One councillor suggested the Borough include the Youtube video about the Historic North Third project at the borough Website; the councillor pointed out that Columbia news, views & reviews had already posted it.

• America’s top car for fuel economy is not a Prius – Road & Track