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Fox43 reports on mayflies

http://fox43.com/2014/07/10/mayfly-invasion-a-good-thing-experts-say/

Fox 43’s Melissa Nardo did her five o’clock report from the Veterans’ Memorial Bridge.

The topic: mayflies, whose carcasses have accumulated in large piles on the bases of the new bridge lights.

Lancaster man dies after jumping from moving car in West Hempfield

In the area of 15th and Manor streets just southeast of Columbia, Beattie jumped from the left rear of the SUV while it was moving.

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'Like a hail storm.' Mayfly blitz from new lights swarm drivers on bridge between Columbia and Wrightsville

The intensity of the swarms amazed even those who have long lived along the river and are used to such phenomena.

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Should Lancaster County firefighters be sworn to secrecy before learning about oil train locations?

Lancaster County’s emergency management director is balking at forcing fire chiefs and volunteer firefighters here to sign confidentiality agreements before they can learn when trains carrying flammable crude oil pass through their communities.

Randy Gockley, the county’s emergency management coordinator, calls the requirement “overkill” and has sought guidance from the county solicitor.

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Lancaster County firefighters won't have to swear secrecy to learn about oil trains

Firefighters in Lancaster County won’t have to sign confidentiality agreements to learn the location of trains carrying flammable crude oil in their communities.

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What I Saw – July 7, 2014

Fox 43 reporting from the river – literally.

What I saw recently

Show me a sign.

Under roof (partially)

Catchin’ a ride

Phil Robertson is now bald and beardless.

Cheap seat

Mangled mailbox

Do not touch.

Bird on a wire

Which way?

Fraternal twins

Two of a kind

Covering the past

Children a pla

Flags at CCFD carnival

Flying by

“Big wheel keep on turning.”

I don’t think this one has in a while.

Guard duty

At Laurel Hill

CCFD fireworks

Carnival coaxes dimes, pays big dividends for Columbia Consolidated Fire Company

http://m.lancasteronline.com/columbia/news/carnival-coaxes-dimes-pays-big-dividends-for-columbia-consolidated-fire/article_331cd252-04b5-11e4-9d41-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm

Happy Fourth!

This morning, patriotic gals set up flags around town.

Down at the Moose – flags right and left.

https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/i0WG-ZUUOsg&source=uds

The national anthem as rendered by a veteran of the 101st Airborne.

State funding increases do little to help cash-strapped Columbia schools

The newly passed state budget offers the high-poverty Columbia schools a little extra cash, but the amount is less than what district leaders were counting on.

The smaller increase ” will continue to squeeze Columbia financially,” said Laura Cowburn, the district's business manager.

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