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

Quote for today… “From what I got out of all of it, there is a council member, not sure who, that isn’t able to separate their personal feelings and vendetta against certain trust members, in making things work for the betterment of the market house and the rest of Columbia..” – extracted from 27 comments (at this point) to Cole Umber’s coverage of coverage: “Council votes to support Market House Trust.”

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• Back in the news: “The legal battle about nude dancing in Columbia might soon be resolved.“ – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Want to know what happened at Monday’s council meeting? Cole Umber’s got the only report we’ve seen.

• Man who lives in Columbia arrested in Lancaster stabbing incident – WGAL-TV8

• More stop signs coming? May be, this Legal Notice appears in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era: Notice is hereby given that the Council of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania will consider for adoption at its meeting on September 22, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania an ordinance titled and summarized as: an Ordinance of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania establishing stop intersections in both directions of travel … “

SOURCE: PA Drivers Manual – chapter 2

• What goes up sometimes … – Trump Casinos “will file for bankruptcy again this week, people with knowledge of the situation said, putting a fifth Atlantic City casino in danger of closing.” – Bloomberg News

• Drug testing high school athletes and cheerleaders?  – Fox43TV NOTE: How about administrators, school board members and teachers, too?

• “REMINDER: For those who were not at the Monday council meeting, the transmission of ‘who said what’ and ‘what happened’ is left to those who came to the meeting to document the night’s activities. Others in the borough will get verbal reports from those who attended or written interpretations from others. The only way to get a full report is to attend meetings.”

• Lots of comments about the coming community-wide yard sale and the borough’s communications or lack thereof here – You know you’re from Columbia PA if… facebook page