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

Quote for today… “Drivers should take care Monday morning as freezing rain may create icy conditions on untreated roads.” – Extracted from York Dispatch article about freezing rain today.

• It’s treacherous out there at now! The forecast.
  

• Hempfield’s announced a school starting delay (albeit confused as tweets keep coming) at its Website; Columbia has said nothing at its Website.

• So, where is it? Where do citizens find the 2015 budget? Simple Internet search yields West Hempfield Township’s budget and others? Where’s Columbia’s? Not here. Where’s the transparency!

• LNP – Always Lancaster editorial says countywide police department is worth looking at and cites Berks County study; click here to read that 2009 study.

• LEGAL NOTICE –  NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of School Directors of the Columbia Borough School District, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (the “School District”) at its public meeting scheduled for Thursday, January 15, at 7:00 p.m., prevailing local time, at the District Administration Center, 200 N. 5th Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania 17512, will, inter alia, receive a proposal from RBC Capital Markets, LLC (the “Underwriter”) for the purchase of one or more series of the School District’s General Obligation Bonds … click here to read this Legal Notice in its entirety.

Don’t know why this course is not offered in Lancaster? It’s being offered in York, though, in February. “Toss your hat in the ring – For all those people who have ever thought about serving on their school board, borough council or township board – here’s your chance to learn how to do it.” – is being offered in York. You can register here, the price of the workshop is $25.

Anita Ekberg obituary: “As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts.”  – The Guardian

Patriot Voices was founded by Rick and Karen Santorum

• $ay it ain’t $0 – Philly.com

Gas prices continue to tumble!

• Will cheap gas continue? This Reuters column predicts yes: “It’s great to have lower oil prices; greater still to have oil. In the past five months, oil prices have fallen 40 percent, and that will fuel economic growth. But oil extraction and exploration aren’t getting cheaper, and prices need to be higher than below $70 a barrel to pay for them. Middle East oil producers are suspected of flooding the market with oil to make shale-oil extraction in North America uneconomical — but they won’t want to cause another slump. If we get more growth, oil demand will increase again – and so will prices. Make the best of the cheaper times.”