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

Quote for today … ““These men need to be taken down. And we need to get good people on council.” – Cortney Hartnett, Middletown resident, one of the citizens protesting the Middletown, PA borough manager and a councillor. The mayor and others are exhorting citizens to come to council meetings in this PennLive article.

• From VP to federal prison for stealing – PennLive

• Earlier this year, she asked not to go to jail – reckon she saw the fate handed out to others who steal and get wrist slaps

• “Pennsylvania has the nation’s highest fuel taxes, at 50.5 cents per gallon. This is due to the state’s relatively new gas tax, passed in 2013. The new tax is charged on fuel transactions and is based on the wholesale price of gas — although the reference price used is locked in for roughly another two years and then becomes subject to an even higher minimum. The tax is designed to raise money for construction and necessary repairs for bridges and roads throughout the state.” – See the states with the highest and lowest gas taxes here. – 24/7 Wall St.

• Yet pump prices continue to fall – In and around Columbia – regular is $2.12.  In Ephrata – $2.07. Meanwhile, we saw much higher pricing in Reading – $2.25. Go figger, huh. – GasBuddy

• The Rainbow Shop is open in the Manor Shopping Center – just in a new spot across the parking lot next to Big Lots.

• A new governor and the Website’s changed already – Pa.gov

• The new governor wants to ” ban on gifts more than $25 in value for lawmakers.” Great idea.

“Board Members and Administration welcomes Amy Light (center), newly appointed Business Manager for the CBSD.” – Columbia Borough School District Website

• Amy Light is Columbia Borough School District’s newly hired business manager. She previously worked at Northern Lebanon School District; the district’s Website shows her bio: “Ms. Amy Light became a part of the Northern Lebanon administrative team in July 2010. Prior to coming to NL, she spent four years at the First National Bank of Fredericksburg as the Human Resource Manager. She also worked as a manager in her family owned business. Ms. Light is a 1988 graduate of Northern Lebanon, and a 1992 graduate of The King’s College, Briarcliff Manor, NY, where she attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. She enjoys spending time with her three children and escaping to the beach whenever possible.”

• “LEGAL NOTICE: “NOTICE OF MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Thursday, January 15, 2015, the Board of School Directors of the Columbia Borough School District, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a (the “School District”) adopted a Resolution which, among other things, authorized the incurring of non-electoral debt… ” – LancasterOnline
  

Image Credit: Dana Mancias – SOURCE: F&M College

• H-m-m-m, applications up at F&M – enrollments are down at E-Town