today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “It shouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience at the onset.” – Mike Crochunis, a PennDOT spokesman, talking about the Route 30 construction project about to begin on the east side of York. – The York Dispatch
The magnolia buds are so-o-o-o ready for this winter to be gone; yesterday, they began to emerge. Bring on those sunny, warm days.
- 16th annual Pennsylvania Herb and Garden Festival in York on Saturday – The York Dispatch
- Will there now be a national debate on “knife control” following yesterday’s school terrorism attack?
- Un-killable – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- “We have no motion, therefore the motion dies.“ – That was the bottom line in Myerstown at a council meeting during which a motion was made to provide health insurance for councillors and the mayor. – Lebanon Daily News
- Opinion – “If basic English is deficient, how can colleges be service athletes? David Jones” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- It’s senseless to designate an official state language if it’s not taught in the schools and homes; Gil Smart knows that even if local legislators don’t.
- “A ‘wild and raucous … frolic of friendly playfulness’ will take place this weekend at Neffsville Community Park.” – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
- Overheard at an open forum recently, “At some point the demographics of this nation will overtake the Republicans.”
Photo:Fred Espenak/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center- “A full lunar eclipse will occur early Tuesday morning, darkening the full moon and possibly tinting it a reddish hue that causes some to call it a “Blood Moon”. – The Baltimore Sun and Mother Nature News
- Jane Goodall at F&M on April 18 – Franklin and Marshall Website
- “The Common Wheel, a newly formed non-profit group, plans to open a community bike shop next month. The group intends to repair and refurbish donated bicycles and sell them at a low cost.” – Common Wheel facebook page and Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
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