Month: July 2017

McGinness property to be discussed at special meeting

Columbia Borough Council will hold a special meeting to determine whether to move forward with acquiring real estate pursuant to an Agreement of Sale executed by and between the Borough and Peggy A. Knoll and James G. McGinness, Trustees, on Monday, July 24, 2017 at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia.

About Town

Recent pics from around town . . .

 Flags waving at the Catholic War Vets

 Sunlit moon flower

Lilies

 Nag, nag, nag!

 Sundial at Laurel Hill Cemetery
The quote, “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be…” is by English poet Robert Browning.
 Another view
 Apparently, the bar that the bird is supporting is called a “gnomon.”
 Someone’s been sitting at the window too long.
 Nasty habit, that! 
Littering, that is.
Even when it’s placed in a baggie first.
Or thrown into a tree grate.
 We’re ready for our closeup, Mr. DeMille.
 These juvenile black vultures were sitting on a condemned building in the 500 block of Avenue H. 
Seems fitting.
 Weather-seasoned outdoor sofa on the 100 block of Locust
 Really?!
 Take a closer look.
This is what’s supporting the overhang?
At Columbia River Park – parking for vehicles with trailers only.
 Strictly enforced
 Yes really
 Hornet’s nest on the 300 block of Walnut.
Don’t stir it up.
 Horse galloping on the wind
 New OPEN flag at the municipal building
 There are plans for this building in the 600 block of Avenue H.
The owner hopes to put in 10 storage units on the first floor.
 Vehicles will need to back in here from the alley.
 There won’t be any storage units on the second floor.
The matter will be discussed further at this week’s meeting of the Zoning Hearing Board on Wednesday, July 26, at 7 p.m.
 Weed City USA?
 Painting the town – or at least a small part of it.
 L. Weber & Sons painting 462 Chestnut Street
Way up in there
 The remains of the night
 Maybe the sumac leaves help catch the signal, thus strengthening it.
 The message here?
 Bee-lieve you me, he got the point!
 More middle school modernism
 Sidewalk stove at Bootleg Antiques
It’s a Keeley!
The Keeley Stove factory was opened in Columbia in February of 1883. By 1888, the company was producing 20,000 stoves per year. It survived until 1948.
 How about just until 2 a.m.?
Bicycle – minus the other wheel and handle bars
Overheard bit of conversation on the 400 block of Locust Street on Friday, July 21:

“At night time when the bed bugs come out you see ’em – like roaches.”

Columbia mourns loss of Mary Loreto

Mary Juliette (Nobile) Loreto, 91, passed away on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife the late Arthur A. Loreto, Sr. who preceded her in death in 1984. A proud lifelong Columbia resident, she was the daughter of the late Michael and Mary Carmella Russo Nobile.

MORE:

http://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/mary-juliette-nobile-loreto/article_50c4818b-c4ec-52a2-8f8c-c959e455faf1.html

Former Columbia Weatherman Paul Douglas to co-host radio show

He got me on the pay phone with his boss as WHEX (Columbia, PA), a daytime station that literally shut down at night. He asked me my name and I said “Douglas Kruhoeffer.” There was a long pause. “You don’t understand. Our DJs are so stupid they’ll never be able to say your name. They can’t even say their own names. If you want to get $25 a week, you’ll have to change it.” So Paul Douglas was born. I was a senior in high school and I was hooked.

MORE:

http://m.startribune.com/weatherman-paul-douglas-is-back-on-the-twin-cities-airwaves-as-wcco-radio-host/435656193/?interstitial=true

About Town

Recent pics from around Columbia . . .
Awning’s eye view of Hotel Locust
Check, please.
Spell check, that is.
Unless it’s forbidden to exchange locks of hair.
Cloud hand pointing the way
Weeds ahoy!

And here as well, on the 600 block of Chestnut . . .
and all over town, really.

Blasting out of frame in the no-wake zone.

Trolley peeking around the pier

 Just visiting

 Imitation Gibson guitar and empty-headed plastic person –
a fitting tribute to today’s music.

 Norfolk Southern holding up the works down at the crossing

Dig it!

“Fancy banner” at the antiques store

Baby bunny on Chestnut
(Momma was nearby.)

Wait, what?

Some get their own parking, deserved or not.

Station renovation

Overview of Wrights Ferry Bridge,
as seen from the 441 bypass.

New ADA-compliant curb at South 2nd & Union
Here’s the other side.
Meanwhile, at 7th Street & Purples Lane, this crossing leads to a wheelchair-accessible curb – but no sidewalk! 

Except for a few small exceptions, curbs and sidewalks are required along all streets in Columbia, according to borough ordinance.

Trolley heading down Walnut
Biker gang
Remember to feed the meter when you park downtown during business hours.
Even here, in the space with the yellow line. You know, the yellow line that designates a NO PARKING area but has a parking meter anyway.  Even if you slug the meter, they can still ticket you – right?

The famous “Columbia double-park”
in which a driver “cannot find a suitable parking space” along the curb
but instead parks in the street.
No, really – no parking spaces available!
Even more sticker shock
Newly shorn
Buddhist monk
Innovative use of a bedsheet?
 Up on the rooftop
Crow with crow’s feet
First watch
Morning rays on Laurel Hill Road
 Is this on the list?
Looks like Reddy Kilowatt is back – two of them, in fact.

Hey, there he is now!

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