Year: 2018
PUC lets Columbia Water Co. raise rates, but not as much as requested
Columbia Water Company will see a revenue increase of 12.4 percent under rate hikes approved Thursday by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
That’s about two-thirds of the 17.8 percent increase the company requested.
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ONE FOUND GUILTY OF 2 CHARGES IN WOLFPACK ATTACK – FACES UP TO 10 YEARS
Shakim N. McIlwain
One of two men charged in a wolfpack-style attack of a 61-year-old man last year was found guilty of two charges related to the incident. Shakim N. McIlwain, 23, of Columbia was convicted of aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy in the September 3, 2017 attack and will face up to 10 years in prison as a result. Assistant District Attorney Andrew Gonzales prosecuted the case at the Lancaster County Courthouse today where the victim and his wife testified. During the proceedings, an enlarged photograph of the victim, showing the severity of his injuries after the incident, was shown to the jury. The victim now has permanent damage to his right eye.
McIlwain was remanded directly to Lancaster County Prison after being found guilty but unable to post the $250,000 bail (monetary). The original bond of $30,000 monetary, posted three days after his arrest, was terminated today. Interestingly, McIlwain had been able to post the original amount and was recently employed by Ace Hardware in Columbia. Sentencing will be in mid-May. Randy Howard, also charged in the incident, is still at large.
Columbia Spy reported on the September 3, 2017 incident HERE.
MORE TO FOLLOW
Shakim McIlwain docket sheet, filed 9/5/17:
Columbia Borough Police report from the incident:
Draft Agenda – School Board Committee of the Whole 3/1/18
Perez, Daniel Angel Jr. – One count of Possession of Marijuana section 780-113 A 31 i (M) and 2 additional charges | West Hempfield Township Police Department
Daniel Angel Perez, Jr.
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, at 1:34 AM, an officer from the West Hempfield Township Police Department conducted a vehicle stop after observing a black Dodge Durango traveling west on Columbia Avenue with an expired vehicle registration.
The officer learned that the driver, 26 year old, Daniel Angel Perez, of 579 Cherry Street, Columbia, PA 17512, did not have a current PA driver’s license. During the stop the defendant admitted to the officer that he had smoked marijuana and that there was a small amount of marijuana inside the vehicle. The officer did find a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle.
Perez was placed into custody without incident, processed at the West Hempfield Township Police Department, then released.
On Thursday, February 22, 2018, Perez the West Hempfield Township Police Department filed the following charges against Perez at MDJ Miles Bixler’s Office: One count of Possession of marijuana, Section 780-113, a, 31, i, (M); One count of Driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked, Section 1543 a, (S); and One count of Registration and certificate of title required, Section 1301 a, (S).
All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Arrest Date:
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Case Number:
2018-WH-00390
Charges:
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citations | Columbia Borough Police Department
ROBERT LEWIS CASWELL, SR., AGE 61, OF YORK, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, ON BARBER STREET, 24 FEBRUARY 2018.
ERIK A. GRAHAM, AGE 34, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR RESTRAINT OF DOGS REQUIRED, 25 FEBRUARY 2018, AFTER HIS DOG MANAGED TO GET OUT OF HIS YARD ON THE 20TH. OF FEB. 18.
GABRIEL CRUZ, AGE 38 AND TRISTY LEE PRIDGEN, AGE 27, BOTH OF COLUMBIA, WERE CITED FOR HARASSMENT, AFTER POLICE HAD TO RESPOND TO THEIR RESIDENCE FOR A DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE CALL, ON THE 18TH. OF FEBRUARY 2018.
ORLANDO SAEZ, JR., AGE 22, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR A BOROUGH ORDINANCE, FOR NOT HAVING A TRANSIENT LICENSE AND GOING DOOR TO DOOR, ATTEMPTING TO SELL ENERGY PLANS ON CLOVERTON DRIVE, 21 FEBRUARY 2018.
MONICA LYNN MILLER, AGE 21, OF POTTSTOWN, PA., WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS & YIELD SIGNS AT FIFTH AND MAPLE STREETS, 22 FEBRUARY 2018.
JOSE CENTENENO-VILLEGAS, AGE60, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED; AND FOR STOP SIGNS & YIELD SIGNS, AT BARBER AND 11TH. STREETS, 23 FEBRUARY 2018.
LISANDRA TRINIDAD-ROLDAN, AGE 40, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNALS, AT LANCASTER AVENUE AND COLUMBIA PLAZA ENTRANCE, 24 FEBRUARY 2018.
SEAN DAVID LORAW, AGE 29, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS IN THE 200 BLOCK OF LOCUST STREET, 20 FEBRUARY 2018.
SYDNEY M. FRIDAY, AGE 26, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR REGISTRATION & CERTIFICATION OF TITLE REQUIRED; DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED; AND OPERATION OF VEHICLE WITHOUT OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION, ON UNION STREET AND LANCASTER AVENUE, 26 FEBRUARY 2018.
KYLE A. STATES, AGE 26, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNALS, AT 3RD. AND LOCUST STREETS, 27 FEBRUARY 2018.
JENNIFER A. ATHERHOLT, AGE 36, OF ELIZABETHTOWN, WAS CITED IN THE 100 BLOCK OF SOUTH FOURTH STREET, FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, 27 FEBRUARY 2018.
JOHN C. SCHREINER, III, AGE 43, OF HARRISBURG, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES AT 5TH. AND CHESTNUT STREETS, 27 FEBRUARY 2018.
DARRYL MICHAEL WILSON, AGE 29, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR OPERATION OF VEHICLE WITHOUT OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION, ON LANCASTER AVENUE, 28 FEBRUARY 2018.
https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/post/citations-18
How an Enslaved Man Bought His Freedom and Became One of America's Wealthiest Black People
His wealth led him to invest $9,000 in the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge by the 1850s. It would be burned in 1863 to prohibit Confederate soldiers from reaching Lancaster County. And while a claim was filed with the federal government, the bank nor its investors were ever compensated.
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Bid request for Columbia Borough links to surveillance video
A bid request HERE for road materials (about 2,000 tons of asphalt) for Columbia Borough leads to a surveillance video when clicking on the website address http://www.columbiapa.com listed within the request.
About Town
This week’s pics from around Columbia…
We got a couple of unseasonably warm days last week, as this dog could attest to, if he only could speak English.
He kept “sticking around” down at the river.
Here are some shapes of nature along the shore.
And here are some tundra swans –
reliable harbingers of spring, groundhog be damned.
Here’s yet another sign of spring.
And here’s an entranceway in Avenue H, with broken window pane for ventilation – yet another sign of spring?
Construction notice at the Veterans Memorial Bridge
Yes, there is a Hill Campus.
A student reportedly made threats against the school here last week, but the issue was quickly addressed by the school resource officer.
(In typical Columbia opaque fashion, however, no notification of the incident has been posted on the school district website.)
The awnings at Hinkle’s have been changed from blue to burgundy. The larger awnings are about to get the same treatment. The frames can be seen in the photo above.
T-bone aftermath at 3rd & Walnut?
This is why trash bags should be placed in a container.
Time for this Xmas tree to be X’ed out.
As seen on Lawrence Street. Note the upper left. This property is currently listed at $169,900.
Missing asphalt near 320 South 2nd, complete with a protruding rock.
Could conditions lead to a sinkhole here?
Airing out…
…atop a chimney along Shawnee Run.
Form follows function?
Now open at 2nd & Mill
Something happening in Avenue G
This is where the fire took place a few years ago.
Go HERE for more information on this property.
Cruiser at Mid-Way Collision Shop
Obvious front-end damage
Another sign of spring: daffodils poking through.
At Locust Street Park…”The Returned Soldier” with the light-festooned tree behind him.
But what’s happening to the lights?
Several have been knocked off the tree.
Some are broken.
Was it the wind…
…or something nefarious?
Surely, one of the borough’s “covert” cameras would have caught any perpetrators.
The library topping-off ceremony has been postponed until March 3.
Park Elementary School playground
But the sign says…
And these signs say…
Down Avenue H, at the Historic Society
Something there is that doesn’t love a downspout.
(Apologies to Robert Frost)
Several downspouts that were installed just last year have been damaged.
Here, too, in Avenue I…
Police transmissions are now encrypted, blocking public, emergency responders from hearing broadcasts
The public — including firefighters and fire emergency medical services — has been blocked from listening in on police radio broadcasts in Lancaster County.
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