Year: 2018

2019 Columbia Borough Meeting Calendar includes changes in meeting times

The 2019 Columbia Borough Meeting Calendar includes some important changes. Instead of the usual one council meeting per month, there will now be three: a work session and two regular meetings (as shown in yellow on the calendar above). Also, the meeting night will change from the second Monday to the first, second, and fourth Tuesdays. 

Several of the monthly committee meetings will become part of the council meetings to promote better communication between the committees. Other commissions and boards will meet on the dates shown above.

The first regular borough council meeting of 2019 will be on Tuesday,  January 8, at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street.

About Town 12/30/18

This week’s photos from around Columbia
(Click/tap on photos for larger, clearer images.)
 In training

The Soldier of Light (S.O.L.) Tactical Security Team was in training around town yesterday along with security dog Lucky.
Here’s their contact info.

Garage doors – Rated XXXXXXXXXXX
 Something happened.
[Submitted photo: Howard Stevens]

 View from inside the police station lobby

 The Good Book – good and wet

 Raindrop hanging on

 River Park in the fog

 Burning Bridge at night

Get ready for more road destruction. This time on Route 462 (the 400 block of Chestnut)

 Here are the machineries of destruction, monopolizing the parking spaces since last week.

 Jesus and his flock at Laurel Hill

 Is it done?

Work continues on the sinkhole at 3rd and Linden.

 Here’s a night view.

 Sign down across from Royer’s

 Time keeper at NAWCC

 Folks still aren’t getting it.

 Read the sign.
Nope, not OK

 View from the high school hill

 Town history and the town itself

 Kinderhook and Cloverton

 Church windows at 6th and Chestnut

 Already?
(Taxes have been in the news a lot lately.)
 Missing pieces

 What’s happening here?

 Over on Grinnell Avenue

 Going down Plane Street

 At the tunnel

 Fox43 at the shooting scene this past week

 Tide Pride

 This used to be the Alley Cat, among other things.

 Sidewalk conversation

 Back deck at the Legion
 A door within a door

Coal chute door 
Patriotic display
Close-up of our mural
(What happened to the rest of the mural anyway?)

Tax Hike Petition Signing Continues Saturday, December 29, 2018

Due to numerous requests, petitions will once again be available for signing by citizens who have not yet signed.

When: Saturday, December 29, 2018, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where: 500 Chestnut Street

The petition states:

“We, the undersigned taxpayers and/or residents of the Borough of Columbia, do hereby petition and demand that borough council hold a special meeting as soon as possible to do the following: 1.) To eliminate the $800,000 that was to be allocated to the Revolving Loan Fund in the 2019 budget; 2.) To repeal the Revolving Loan Fund Ordinance 897; 3.) To repeal the tax hike for 2019, thereby reinstating the 2019 tax rate at 6.6 Mills.”

[More times and locations might be offered in the near future.]

UPDATED 12/27/18: Shooting reported in Columbia

The call came in around 2 a.m. Wednesday

The shooting happened on the 500 block of Avenue H.

https://www.wgal.com/article/shooting-reported-in-columbia/25681698

UPDATE, 12/27/18 (lancasteronline):

Officers have determined that an early-morning incident Wednesday that resulted in a gunshot wound on a 26-year-old woman’s arm was accidental, according to Columbia Borough police.

About Town 12/23/18

This week’s photos from around Columbia
(Click/tap on photos for larger, clearer images.)
 Santa at Hermansader Gallery on Locust

An angel there
 Full moon over Chestnut
Bridges old and new . . .

 Salem UCC

 Over at NAWCC

 And nearby

Christmas lights . . . 

 Fallen angel
 Open lock box at CVS

Over at Columbia United Methodist . . .

 Back at the lock box, a little better, but not still great
The deadline for lock box installation is December 31.

 Gathering signatures 

 Iron horse?

 At the post office: “Columbia Bridge” by artist Bruce Mitchell

 Wide open lot on Locust

 Fluttering flag

 Christmas lights on Poplar

 Santa waving good-bye from a circle of sacrifice

 Back at the bridge

 Night lights

 Moose!

 Alive and well in Columbia

 Left behind at the bus stop

 Tree down at the gazebo

 Saint John’s Lutheran

 Looking up

 Keep Woodstock in Woodstockmas.

 Lincoln Highway marker

 We paid several thousand dollars for new tree lights, and all we got was this lousy dark patch.

 At 5th & Cherry

 Ditto

 Santa was here earlier this week, but then he skipped out.

 What’s that ghost sign say?

 Looks like: BAKE

 Fancy frame

 Sick humor

 Back at the bridge once again

 Arches and pipes

 Train passing through

 Train car and former train station

 They used to be in the air carrier biz.

 Another ghost sign which appears to read: MAIL POUCH

 Possibly part of the logo

 Skid row

 More Americana

 Indian elephant bearing a load

 Finial on Poplar

 Hanging out hanging things

 DANGER HOLE

 Lamp imprint on awning 

 756 signatures on 52 pages were collected and are being delivered to council members and the borough manager.
Signatures are still being collected. More information will follow.

 Another finial, neighbor to the one above

 Avenue C ends abruptly.

 Taking in the air

 This truck pulled a bunch of train cars loaded with rocks to the railroad crossing at the bottom of Walnut, then reversed and went back up the tracks, then came back again and kept going.

 Who stole the downspout?

 When in doubt, use the side door.

 Stones similar to the ones used in the Civil War bridge piers (See previous photos.)

 Angelic harpist

 Pounding the sidewalk

 It’s a clean machine.

 3 wise guys and a gal

 Wrightsville as seen from Manor Street

 A closer look

 100 block of Locust

 200 block of Locust

 Santa sighting! He’s back, sneaking around town, so be sure to be naughty and/or nice.
On the lookout

 Let’s get this done.

 Meanwhile, downtown

 Innovative use of a bicycle wheel
On Friday at about 6:30 p.m., this car was reportedly heading east on Linden Street and collided with a truck heading south on Fourth Street. No reports of injuries. 
[Submitted photo]

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