Year: 2017

About Town

Recent pics from around our fair borough . . .
Just married!
However, this isn’t the proper way to enter a bridal suite.
Meanwhile, at Columbia River Park . . .
Busted!
The lamppost, that is.

Looks like someone backed into it with a vehicle.
There’s the shards of a broken taillight.

And there’s a dent.

And there’s a broken fixture.

Alas
“Columbia rossing”
Can you “C” it?
Taking pride – 
Well, someone’s gotta do it.

Winged head at 8th & Walnut

Beating the heat

Here a weed, there a weed, everywhere a weed weed.

You don’t see many of these nowadays.

Sculpture at Burning Bridge

Working on the Front Street storage units.

Second floor, going up.

Why park in a space when there’s a perfectly good street there?

On the lookout

A favorite symbol of American Nazis

300 block of Locust, Saturday morning, 5 o’clock

Stand up for what you believe in,
or just because you feel like it.

Guess this doesn’t get used often.

Newfangled trash receptacle?

Q: Why does he do that?
A: Because he can.

Sooty water at Front & Walnut.
Thanks, Eastern Drillers!

Hood ornament on hood

The document says that the real estate agent listed is responsible for the management of the property.

Is the property being managed?

Is it?

Mayfly invasion on the 200 block of Locust!

Another ghost sign (200 block of Locust)
There’s a shadow of the word “FURNITURE” along the bottom (right about “254”).
The rest is illegible.

Grinch on vacation at Tacos to Go

Does this conform to HARB rules?

Yes, keep that door closed, like the sign says.
And fix that broken window!

Creepy Ronald beckons you to the bath.

Unlawful structure at 134 North 3rd is being renovated.
The backstory is HERE.

Yeah, Tollbooth, No Parking!

So, if someone removes that padlock . . .

Poplar Street School Center for the Arts

Someone might want to apply their artistic talents to this sign.

How many people live here?

4th & Cherry becoming ADA-compliant

Attractive property on the 300 block of Cherry

This is what can be done . . .

When people care.

There’s one of those dad-blasted gas fixtures. A tripping hazard for sure.

Bumblebees have take over for the missing honeybees.
Cross traffic does not stop.
True. It doesn’t even slow down.

It’s listing a bit.

That’s what they’re doing.

Council should make this the borough’s official tree by virtue of its ubiquity.

Five feral felines…
in Avenue F.
That so works!

Columbia cowgirl

Heron heading homeward

Bricks fall from Locust Street building after heavy rain

Emergency crews were called to the northern section of Bank Avenue Saturday afternoon for a report of bricks falling from the side of a building. Several broken bricks were found on the roadway near the intersection of Bank Avenue and Locust Street.  According to witnesses, the bricks were dislodged when lightning struck the building during a storm that passed through that afternoon. The side of the building has several missing bricks and a partial veneer of concrete near the top, which may have been applied to secure loose bricks.

That section of Bank Avenue has now been closed. The building – at 131 Locust Street – is home to Art Printing Co, Inc., which recently acquired it.

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile found in Columbia Borough

Pools of adult mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus have been found in 16 locations around Lancaster County, including in Manheim Borough, Lancaster Township, East Hempfield Township, West Lampeter Township, Columbia Borough, Elizabethtown Borough, Conoy Township, Manheim Township, West Hempfield Township and Lancaster city.

MORE:

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/mosquito-pools-in-lancaster-county-infected-with-west-nile-virus/article_d23dcd6e-7d1b-11e7-8f58-7f1a7394713a.html