About two hours after the shooting incident at Third and Union on Saturday night, a fireworks event was held on, or near, the river shore close to the first block of Union Street. The bangs could be heard at least as far away as Ninth Street, causing many to think an active shooting event was still underway. The two clips below document a few seconds of the fireworks. No whistles or screeches can be heard as the rockets ascend and explode. After the reports, faint crackling can be heard in some instances, but was not audible a few blocks away.
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you have NO idea. and the Boro owns what like 16 or 18 acres on the other side of the river park. makes more sense anyway.they bought it from norfolk southern.
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LASA is considering installing grinder pumps to handle sewage from the cottages. However, the company's current focus is on building a pumping station – a project that must be completed by March 2018. LASA will maintain the grinder pumps, once installed. The cost of installation will be spread across LASA's customer base, but cottage owners will pay a hook-up fee.
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Because nobody wants to live here anymore.
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How do you know how much they paid for it I don't think they feel it was a give away they pay bourgh taxes and school taxes insurance they don't have those cottages for free those people have a right to them they pay for them are you jealous
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Are there no regulations about having septic tanks so close to River water? Water that is pumped out and used for public water?
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Cole, don't you think that once again, the topic has dramatically veered off subject? I understood the original idea regarding fireworks, but again it has transgressed into a bashing of cottage owners. I guess it makes for good banter, but in my opinion, i'd rather visit your website to stay abreast of all the current affairs and of course the great pics, not for the witch-hunts. When a “topic” is allowed to veer so much off course that the comments become meaningless, un-intelligent and just plain silly, it becomes something not very interesting and more of a side show, “junior” journalism. Get back to the good reporting, articles and pics…not this trash.
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Another joke, they purchased the land for next to nothing, let them pay for a pumping station.Again thanks to the Mayor and the Boro Council personal agenda!!
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You are clueless! The property taxes on those cottages are a joke!!! Most of them have come down in assessed value while the sale prices in some cases are 5 times the assessed value! I will be contacting the Assessment office about this!
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Cole didn't take this off topic, the commenters did. And to suggest he should do something about it would be infringing on the right to freedom of speech. Now go back to your cottage and mind your own business.
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I suppose you are somewhat correct, except for (1) gross assumption….”your cottage”??? I do not own a cottage along the river in question.
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Why don't you people mind your own business and let the people alone that own the cottages there are alot bigger things in town to worry about taxes council spending so much money the schools in such a mess why don't you worry about the important things wake up
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Sale prices?? When was the last time any cottages were sold to corroborate your statement of “sale prices are 5x assessed value”? I myself have been looking/interested for years to buy one and they don't seem to be selling. There have been (2) listed For Sale for over a year now, but have not sold, no doubt due to the ridiculously high sale price they are “asking” but not “getting”. Maybe what you meant to say is that the “ASKING PRICES” are 5x the assessed value… a more correct statement.
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Here is the entire problem with Columbia, it is not the cottage owners, it is that Columbia citizens are destroying the town. Hating on people who have something you do not is childish. At my place of employment everyone think Columbia is a joke and they call it Lumlum. No matter how much I defend Columbia people in this country think Columbia is the armpit of Lancaster county and what would make them want to come here and visit. In the Lancaster County cookbook by Louise Stolzfus & Jan Mast here is part of the expert about Columbia.”A sleepy river, with its share of decaying neighborhoods” That right there says it all. There is not any other write up about any other community in this boom that does not paint a picture of a town you would want to visit. Would anyone want to visit any town that it's write up calls it decaying? I think not. What needs to be done is for all the Columbia pride that this town has, come together and make changes, so that people want to visit here and maybe just maybe live here. But it will never happen with the path we are going down.
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Actually it's the truth! Since the present Mayor, past and now present Council refuse to listen to the majority of the people, we have decayed. Except for their personal agendas.To late to turn things around.
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