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

Quote for today … ” … COLDEST NIGHT YET THIS SEASON … ” – Extract from the National Weather Service’s FROST WARNING FOR SUNDAY NIGHT.

• Summit Street Properties, LLC‘s Columbia footprint gets larger with the purchase of 208 Walnut Street.

• Still no official word on the rumored “newest iteration of the Turkey Hill Experience experience” across Locust Street from the borough hall.

• Extravagance: High speed automatic license plate readers in Harrisburg. Will they be here next? – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Restaurant inspections in York County – The York Dispatch

• Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – LancasterOnLine

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• “Cart before the horse” hearing in Columbia – “LEGAL NOTICE The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Columbia will meet on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 7:00 P.M., in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, to consider the following application(s) and/or appeal(s): Vincent Fiorella is requesting special exception(s) and/or variance(s) to construct an accessory building at 631 South Thirteenth Street … ” – LancasterOnLine