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

Quote for today… “This town has enough bad press. We are in the paper more than any town that I know right now, and it’s not good. Why do you want to keep stirring the pot like this?” – Citizen commenting on The Truth Issue – community newsletter. – Harrisburg Patriot-News – [Remember Charlie Brown’s chorus: “Why is everybody always picking on me?”]

• Heard the word about a fire company’s decertification? Columbia Consolidated is boxed out! – LancasterOnline

• Read the Borough’s “Truth Issue” here – A borough’s Website

• Read Cole Umber’s article about Monday night’s (October 13) Borough Council meeting; thankfully someone is attending the meetings and documenting what’s transpired. Well done, Cole.

• Now there is word on the rumored “newest iteration of the Turkey Hill Experience experience” across Locust Street from the borough hall. – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• Don’t you love the comment in the article? “To fund its purchase, the nonprofit borrowed money from a Columbia business, which Nikoloff declined to identify. The nonprofit hopes to replace the private loan with conventional bank financing.” Says a lot for government-sponsored transparency.

• 309-315 Locust Street – SOLD!

• The “grand dame at 855 Chestnut Street – SOLD!  On May 25, 2014, Columbia news, views & reviews wrote: “Oh, yeah … did you see the news about the “grand dame” at 855 Chestnut Street? The H.A.R.B. agenda for its meeting last Wednesday included this item: “855 Chestnut St.; Michael G. Keller, applicant. Conceptual discussion of proposed repairs, alterations and new construction.” Keller’s name is not on the deed of the property.

• Appears Metro Bank now owns the B & B at 360 Chestnut Street. Click here to see the Lancaster County parcel description.

• E-town resident nominated for Native American “Grammy” – news release
  

The new Beaver Field at Penn State University, taken sometime in the 1950s. The street running to the upper right of the photo is North Atherton. The part of the Nittany Lion is in on the left side of the photo. Penn State University archives
(PHOTO SOURCE: PennLive.com)

• See PennLive‘s gallery of Beaver Stadium through the years.

• How dumb: the buyer should be fired too – Toys R Us pulls Breaking Bad dolls. – Lebanon Daily News