About Town – July 27, 2025

 This week’s photos of Columbia 

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These second-floor mirrors were exposed during the demolition of 700 Franklin on Monday. 

Farhat Excavating knocked the house down, creating a lot of dust in the process.

The whole house was down in one day.

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Farhat also demoed the remaining structures at 1020 Manor Street.

The entire project – house and structures – took four days. 

The next step will be soil remediation, to be done by Iron Eagle Excavating at a cost of about $2.2 million. 

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Morning clouds 

Spraying the banks of Shawnee Run 

Public Art Station on North 4th 

For settin’ out at the pole

Taking down an old utility pole on Walnut: The pole on the right is being taken down. The worker on the lower right is collecting the pieces.

Kreider & Sons Excavating continued work at the Habitat for Humanity Linden Street Build site this past week.

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Hey, who moved the mailbox?

The relay box at 4th & Poplar was moved from its position sometime Friday/Saturday(?)

School bus vs trash truck: an impending traffic jam?

Animal control officers were on the 100 block of Walnut the other day. They appeared to be armed.

They took a dog from a residence, according to a witness.

CBFD 80 responded to a report of a brush fire near 6th Street and Avenue H on Tuesday afternoon.

There was a mass casualty event on Front Street.

Hundreds of mayflies died. 

The skeletons at Columbia Curiosities reenacted a scene from a famous movie. 

Guardian of the pot

Morning glory and friend

Flower frenzy 

Takin’ it easy down at the dock

There’s a peach tree on Locust. 

Really 

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