Year: 2015

Synthetic marijuana plague taxes police, emergency responders in Columbia and elsewhere

“Our patrolmen encounter it at least once a shift now,” said Columbia Borough Det. Matt Leddy. “There’s been a  sharp spike in the amount of people using it.”
Sometimes users are hallucinating and it’s affecting people very differently, said Leddy.

About town

Seen around town today . . .


These cats are not feral.  They are well taken care of by an owner on Walnut Street . . .

Fallout from the mayfly invasion . . .

Great bargain – newly ventilated, too!
(Maybe someone couldn’t find their keys.)

Looks like Union Station Grill is getting a facelift . . .

Digging up Rotary Park one hole at a time

That’s what this man was doing again this morning . . .

A few weeks ago he was doing the same thing in another area of the park, as shown HERE.

Problem is, he uses a spade shovel instead of a trowel to dig for his “treasure” . . . 
and leaves mounds (tripping hazards) when placing the sod back into the freshly dug holes.
Apparently, he hasn’t been caught on the park’s video surveillance system yet.  
(There is a video surveillance system, isn’t there?)

Fish and Boat Commission to be looking for drunken boaters on Susquehanna this weekend

The upcoming weekend would be a particularly bad time to be drinking in a boat on the Susquehanna River.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced its waterways conservation officers around the state will be on “heightened alert for those violating boating under the influence laws” Friday through Sunday.

And there they are now (today at River Park):

MORE INFO HERE