This article from the March 9, 1921 edition of the New York Times recently appeared on the radar.
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94 years ago – Columbia fire dept. arrested for arson
Year: 2015
As oil trains continue to derail, top Pennsylvania officials demand federal action
An analysis of those in danger in case of an oil train fire released last week by PublicSource showed three schools and a day-care center in Marietta and Columbia within the evacuation zone of Norfolk Southern’s Port Road rail line along the Susquehanna.
They are the Susquehanna Waldorf School in Marietta, Little People Day Care in Columbia, and Park Elementary School and Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School in Columbia.
“The potential for disaster is too great to ignore,” Gov. Tom Wolf wrote in a Feb. 27 letter to President Barack Obama in which he said oil train safety is a top priority for his administration.
Making fasnachts was a 40-year tradition for this Columbia family
For 40-plus years, it was a tradition for her family to make fasnachts at the Columbia church that is Lancaster County’s “Fasnacht Central.”
Former Columbian Josetta Grimes, now of Ohio, submitted this photo of her mother Bernice Stein (on the left) and her aunt, Rosemary Donnelly, who are twins, with NBC-TV’s Williard Scott when the “Today Show” weatherman came to Columbia to broadcast in 1989.
The whole family has helped with fasnacht-making at Columbia’s Holy Trinity Catholic Church for years, Grimes recalls.
There’s no proof Daylight Saving Time saves electricity, so why do we even bother?
The overall DST effect on electricity consumption runs counter to conventional wisdom: DST results in a 1-percent overall increase in residential electricity demand, and the effect is highly statistically significant.
Central PA road crews patch potholes
With sun shining and temperatures in the mid-thirties, balmy conditions after the last few days, PennDOT trucks were still working along US Route 30 outside Columbia Borough in Lancaster County on Saturday.
Instead of filling their plows with snow, they were filling potholes with gravel.
Ready to beam up
The Enterprise is waiting down by the river to beam up anyone who is tired of the winter that will not end.
(Photo by Ingo Paulussen)
Cottage fire at the riverfront today
Several departments responded to a report of a cottage fire along the river this afternoon and had the situation controlled in a short time.
"Tired" of this
Remember that tire that was out on the ice last Saturday?
Well, it wasn’t there today.
It had been right there at the end of the footprints. Yes, footprints (leading right to left).
As a “public service,” someone had walked out onto the ice, retrieved it, and placed it by this sign.
Procession for Columbia boys' basketball team heading for Hershey last Friday
What I saw recently
Watching
Attack!
Blocking the road at River Park, under the bridge
Bumper sticker
Mourning dove
Someone was out on the ice again, sometime between yesterday and today.
See the footprints?
Those footprints, right there
Turkey vulture waving good-bye down near Columbia No. 1
“Howl” about that?
Columbia Spy 