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

Quote for today … “The Government has tightened enforcement, and we will review our penalties to punish littering, to stop littering.” – From an article about tough littering laws in Singapore. where “the streets … are almost glistening with cleanliness.”

Musser’s facelift continues; looking for the permit? Look on the glass doors in the blocked off section next to the Dollar General Store.

• Dave Ramsey’s “Financial Peace University” swinging through the area  

• No Powerball winner – prize now is $261,000,000 and growing

• Trash and garbage is a big problem in our parks, cities and towns. Big Belly – the smart public space waste & recycling system … How effective? Just google “Big Belly.” Pottsville’s going to try them. – Reading Eagle

• No so, say’s Philly’s controller; they’re a “messy waste.”

• And Syracuse’s newspaper’ editorial questions the effectiveness vs. the cost.

• Prime Home Investments, LLC acquires Ronald L. Haug estate “property on a public road” according to the deeds recorded listing.

• “Readability is a website that pulls the content from any page and shows it to you in a nice, readable format, removing all the ads, navigation, etc.  Since it uses it’s own servers to render the page content, it’s not actually your browser that is requesting the content.”

• BUT … packernet.com offers “Tips for Avoiding paywalls.”

• Restaurant inspections in York County: – The York Dispatch [NOTE: York’s newspapers have paywalls that inhibit people from reading their posts after a minimal number of view each month … unless people pay to become subscribers. We will include links to the referenced articles, though readers may not be able to read the article.]
  

• Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – Familiar names on the recent inspection. – Lancaster OnLine

• 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.

• “All Farmers Market Vendors, with a few exceptions, must obtain a Retail Food License and be under inspection to operate a food facility of any kind at a farmers market, whether the market is indoor or outside. Each individual stand is considered its own retail food facility and must obtain its own license to operate.” – PA Department of Agriculture