From yesterday’s wind turbine tour at Turkey Point . . .
Year: 2014
What's up at Laurel Hill?
Several brass vases are missing at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Is it still due to last month’s debacle or are they being stolen by persons unknown?
What I saw recently
Some pics from around town over the last few days . . .
Recent additions at the Catholic War Vets
An old-timey sleigh of some sort at Toll Booth
Several engines linked
Skateboarder at River Park.
Maybe he didn’t see the sign.
Oh, there it is – right in front of him.
Can anyone ID this type of plane?
It flew low over the area on Friday afternoon.
It’s obviously a kind of cargo transport.
Possibly, a C-130 something or other?
Lots o’ nuts ’round here
Well, what the hell?
Part of a broken banister or headboard, left lying there.
Where did it come from?
Why walk on the sidewalk when you have that whole street right there?
Recent heavy rains have lifted the docks at River Park.
The sign says: ADA ACCESSIBLE PIER. Somehow, I don’t think so.
It also says: NO SWIMMING. Well, how else are you supposed to get out there?
Another dock
A different view of the same
Out for a swim
Working at cross purposes?
Each has a priority: getting the story – and getting the selfie.
An old-style street lamp outside Andy’s Market.
There’s a “C” on the base, presumably for “Columbia.”
All lit up
Of the new bridge lights that have been installed, all are now in working order. I took these shots on Saturday morning just before sunrise. (A software glitch created the effect in the last photograph in this series.)
Officers save man, 45, who used bandage gauze to hang himself in cell in Columbia
Columbia officers saved a man who tried to hang himself in a cell at the police station Friday morning, police said.
The 45-year-old man’s name was not released because charges have not yet been filed against him, borough police Chief Jack Brommer said.
Bank robberies linked to serial bandit
COLUMBIA, Pa. (WHTM) –
The man who robbed a Columbia bank last month may be a serial bandit who’s responsible for at least eight similar crimes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
The man who robbed a Columbia bank last month may be a serial bandit who’s responsible for at least eight similar crimes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
Columbia is advised to accept LASA plan for wastewater treatment
Columbia Borough's ad hoc wastewater management committee has recommended to council that the borough accept Lancaster Area Sewer Authority's proposal to assume wastewater treatment and management.
They're coming down
This morning, workmen began removing the old pole lights on the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Columbia updates rules governing street trees in the borough
Columbia Borough Council clarified issues about planting, trimming and paying for shade trees, during their meeting Monday, May 12 as they amended the borough’s “shade tree ordinance.”
Helping claws: Falcon from Columbia hooks up with one from Harrisburg to form new nest in Reading
Mix in a female peregrine falcon that hatched from the Route 462 bridge in Columbia in 2011 with a 9-year-old male falcon from Harrisburg and you get a nest with three or four young falcons right now in Reading.
Columbia Spy 