Author: SPY

DEEDS RECORDED – COLUMBIA BOROUGH – JANUARY 18, 2021

John C. Paxson and Brenda L. Paxson conveyed 16 N. Fifth St. to Justin D. Robitaille and Brenna J. Robitaille for $129,000.

John C. Paxson and Brenda L. Paxson conveyed 14 N. Fifth St. to Justin D. Robitaille and Brenna J. Robitaille for $103,000.

Idubin Vargas and Carolyn E. Vargas conveyed property on Fairview Street to Idubin Vargas for $1.

William S. Wagner and Catherine M. Harsh conveyed property on a public road to Jessie J Guzman Nieves and Marlene E. Martinez Torres for $150,000.

Travis S. McCarty conveyed 473 Manor St. to Rashad K. Watts for $67,000.

Patricia A. Dancause conveyed property on Chestnut Street to Heidi Jean Root for $177,000.

Mattilynn Gartner conveyed 1297 Ridge Ave. to Joanna L. Spicer for $228,000.

Randall H. Kinser conveyed 146 S. Sixth St. to Alan H. Cherkin for $59,500.

Adam D. Nissley and J. Kandace Nissley conveyed 12 S. Third St. to Mathew E. Wardecker and Alyssa M. Wardecker for $115,000.

Hinkles Properties Partnership, John F. Hinkle Jr. and John F. Hinkle III conveyed property on Locust Street to Murphy Acquisition Group LLC for $349,000.

Vilas Malankar and Kamini Malankar conveyed property on a public road to Valley View Capital LLC for $85,000.

About Town – January 17, 2021

This week’s photos of Columbia

(Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) 

Until recently, this was what was left of HARB. Members resigned on principle a few months ago when three councillors voted against their recommendation. Mayor Lutz cast the deciding vote against HARB. New members were recently installed by council.

PPL doesn’t really allow signs on their poles. 
Strangely enough, a borough official posted the HARB notice in the previous photo. 
A walk along Bank Avenue on a sunny day

New sheriff(s) in town
There they are now.

Flags like this were carried in DC on January 6th.

There was another house connected to this one. It was demolished several years ago to make way for an apartment building, which, so far, has not materialized.
The Z’s can almost put you to sleep.
Two of the strange vehicles at K.T. Graham on Front Street

Pipes at the COLA building on Heritage Drive.
There’s a light fixture there, too.
The fixture holds a bird’s nest – warm and well protected.
Always do this.

Always do this, too, unless you think it limits your freedom.

The mayfly is still standing strong.

A well-worn arrow pointing to a well-worn path

Golden light on Locust

Tree-trimming time

Many people gathered to say goodbye to Jeff McMillen this week.
One of the original awnings?
Fenced in along 4th
Fenced in along Avenue X
A hello or a goodbye?

Don’t loiter or trespass here.

Smucker hitched his wagon to a falling star.

According to this recently placed sign, the tattered flag on Locust Street DOES represent the state of our nation. 
The note reads: “I love this country but it is torn and tattered like this flag it is ripped apart. No unity. I mean no disrespect.”
Columbia Spy posted a photo of the flag last week HERE.
There’s some sort of structure in Shawnee Run.

Here it is.

Buddies
New mausoleum in Holy Trinity Cemetery

Did a car explode in this backyard?

Park your bus here.

Muddy steps to the river

Don’t lose your head in these trying times.

A lookout sporting 80’s hair

Roadwork on the 200 block of Locust

Boundary along Bank Avenue

This might be considered an attractive nuisance.
Kids and critters could get in there, if they haven’t already.
Nikes, aloft

Avenue D ends abruptly halfway between 3rd and 4th Streets.
Apartment doors that open directly into the alley…?
Apparently, each of these has a silver lining.
Even so, it looks like we’re Dumpster Town, USA:

TWO FROM LANCASTER COUNTY CHARGED IN LAST WEDNESDAY'S PROTEST/ATTACK IN DC

FROM LNP:

Two Lancaster County residents were among those charged for illegal activities related to the Jan. 6 protests and attack on the Capitol.

According to police, Tara Coleman, 40, was charged with unlawful entry and curfew violation. Dakoda Westfall, 23, was charged with curfew violation.

Coleman, whose Facebook page indicates she’s from Strasburg, and Westfall, a 2016 Solanco graduate, could not be reached for comment. Westfall previously was interviewed for an article about a 2016 Trump “thank you” tour in Hershey.

FBI: Armed protests planned in all 50 states and DC leading up to Inauguration Day | WJAC

Aaron Katersky, an ABC investigative reporter, says a Monday bulletin from the FBI states: “Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the US Capitol from 17 January through 20 January.”

MORE:

https://wjactv.com/news/nation-world/fbi-armed-protests-planned-in-all-50-states-and-dc-leading-up-to-inauguration-day 

Retired Lancaster city cop helping ID locals who went to DC; says it's 'citizen's responsibility'

A retired Lancaster police lieutenant has been sending the FBI photographs of county residents who went to Washington, D.C., last Wednesday to help the federal law enforcement agency determine if any of them broke the law.

Gerald Wilson, 67, of Manheim Township, said he believes anyone who knows a person involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol should do the same.

“I think it’s a citizen’s responsibility for people who have evidence about the insurrection to contact the FBI and give them whatever information you can give,” he said Monday.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/retired-lancaster-city-cop-helping-id-locals-who-went-to-dc-says-its-citizens-responsibility/article_b7be6a60-5450-11eb-8a74-c7561311f609.html 

Republicans in Pa., elsewhere change party affiliation after riot at U.S. Capitol

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In the 36 hours after last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, 112 Republicans reached out to the election office in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to change their party registration. Ethan Demme was one of them.

“Ever since they started denying the election result, I kind of knew it was heading this way,” said Demme, the county’s former Republican Party chairman who has opposed President Donald Trump and is now an independent. “If they kept going, I knew there’s no way I can keep going. But if you’ve been a Republican all your life, it’s hard to jump out of a big boat and into a little boat.”

MORE:

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/01/republicans-in-pa-elsewhere-change-party-affiliation-after-riot-at-us-capitol.html 

Pa. State Police resume tracking racial data during traffic stops in response to Spotlight PA report

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania State Police announced Tuesday that it had resumed collecting racial data during traffic stops, nine years after the department quietly ended the practice and in direct response to a previous investigative report by Spotlight PA.

Many police departments across the nation collect racial data from traffic stops in order to detect potential racial bias in policing. In 2019, Spotlight PA revealed the State Police had ended its collection program in 2012 with no official announcement and for reasons that remain unclear.

In response to the findings, the statewide law enforcement agency pledged to resume the practice.

MORE:

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2021/01/pa-state-police-traffic-stops-racial-profiling-data-collection/