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

Quote for today … “Readers who do not adhere to the guidelines will be warned and, in extreme cases, banned.” – So you can be banned in Boston and in Lancaster County. Lancaster Online‘s new comment guidelines.

• Lancaster Online‘s comments guidelines have changed – “We will take an aggressive approach in monitoring LancasterOnline and our social media pages in an effort to provide a forum for our readers to engage in a healthy and safe exchange of opinions and ideas. Readers who do not adhere to the guidelines will be warned and, in extreme cases, banned.”

• Hitler was a banning fanatic too.

• The folks in the former USSR, as well.

• Three posts in three days – Columbia Police Department facebook page

• A comment at the local facebook page, “What’s Happening in Columbia.” – “Prudhomme’s/Rising Sun got nailed last night with a BB gun several times through our front big window….oh joy! Anyone else? Wondering if not retaliation for calling the PD last week regarding the large group of 15 or so hellians screaming, cursing and fist fighting along the sidewalk at the park opposite us.” 

• “There will be special budget meetings on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015 and Tuesday, Nov.17, 2015 at 6pm to discuss the 2016 Budget. All are invited to attend.” – ColumbiaPA.net

• Appears there is a state law for sewage disposal including private individual systems – “Individual sewage system—A system of piping, tanks or other facilities serving a single lot and collecting and disposing of sewage in whole or in part into the soil or into waters of this Commonwealth or by means of conveyance to another site for final disposal. ” Doubt, though, that means it’s OK to dump sewage into the Susquehanna.