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There couldn't have been better weather in mid-July to kick off Hometown Days in Susquehanna Depot on the 20th. Music, sirens, flashing lights, cascades of candy, and, of course a few politicians, entertained smiling people all the way from the school grounds, along Turnpike Street, down Broad Avenue to Main Street and the shopping plaza parking lot, the town got ready for a celebration.

Maybe it was because of a little recent rain. While most of the talk at the Harford Township Supervisors' meeting on July 17th was about the roads (as usual), there weren't many complaints about dust (unusual, for this time of year). But there were complaints about speeding; the poor condition of Lower Podunk Road (Podunk: "An imaginary small town taken as typical of placid dullness and lack of contact with the progress of the world") and who will pay for repairs; and why can't "impact fee" money be used to tar and chip the roads?