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

Quote for today … “Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38.” – Today’s temperature will be above freezing according to the National Weather Service. Yippee … just 13 days until we turn the clocks ahead. S-P-R-I-N-G A-H-E-A-D!

• “Sheckard steals, Columbia stuns Lancaster Mennonite, 53-51” –GametimePA.com

• We’ve been suggesting this for a while now … “Cimarron Investments, LLC is a commercial/residential real estate firm specializing in development, renovation, and leasing.” But Cimarron really could be the Cimarron Economic Development Corporation.

• The major article on today’s LNP – Always Lancaster “Money” section is about Don and Becky Murphy’s masterful transformation of the former Locust Steet Strube property into the gorgeous building it is today.

• Noticed, too, a deeds transfer: Cimarron Investments has purchased the vacant building at 336 Locust Street (formerly a printing house) for $92,000.

• What if, indeed, Cimarron was Columbia’s EDC?

• The theatres playing “Still Alice” have been expanded – you can now see this film at Penn Cinema.
  

• Donegal Group fourth quarter earnings plunge – Myiris.com

• “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.”

• 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.