Year: 2015

New signs at Columbia Plaza

The Columbia Plaza construction project continues with the recent addition of signs at Musser’s Market and the Tobacco Shop.
 Musser’s got theirs.

But sorry, Dollar Store, you’ll have to wait.
The Columbia Family Restaurant currently sports a vinyl banner and may not get a new sign, since they are moving to West Hempfield – near K-Mart.

A full-service garage – cars and horses fixed here

Jeff from Susquehanna Automotive holds the head of a concrete horse that was recently vandalized at its resting place at Fourth and Chestnut (next to the Turkey Hill Minit Market).

 Someone pushed the horse over between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., breaking off the head.

Jeff and Don, who operate the garage, plan to reconnect the head with dowel rods and a special adhesive.
 Susquehanna Automotive is located in the former Doutrich’s Automotive building.
Susquehanna Automotive is one of the sponsors of the upcoming Thunder on the River car show on June 20.

And this is all that's left of a shocking experience

Shown above is the prime suspect and hapless victim in this morning’s widespread power outage that originated at Sixth and Cherry Streets. This squirrel was instantaneously and simultaneously fried to a crisp and blown in half by a live wire it came in contact with, leaving behind part of a charred carcass.
Possible names for the crispy critter might be “Bernie” or “Charlie.”

2,000 lose power in West Hempfield, Park Elementary closes

Over 2,000 people lost power and an elementary school in Columbia was closed Tuesday due to a fallen electrical wire, officials said.
There were 1,986 customers without power around 8:30 a.m. in West Hempfield Township, according to the PPL website. Earlier, it listed 93 without power in Columbia.

The wire fell at South 6th and Cherry streets at 7 a.m., a Columbia School District administrator said. The intersection is at the southeast corner of Park Elementary School.
The school was initially going to open two hours late, but Lancaster County-Wide Communications later reported it would close.

Cherry Street and Lancaster Avenue
Cherry Street and Lancaster Avenue
Temporary stop sign at Locust Street and Lancaster Avenue
(Traffic lights were out.)
Sixth and Locust
600 block of Locust
Sixth and Lancaster Avenue
One of the transformers near America Direct (formerly A & L Doors) on the 300 block of Poplar Street blew out this morning shortly after the downed wire incident at Sixth and Cherry.
According to LCWC, there was a 9:27 incident at North Eighth Street and Avenue H involving utility/wires.