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Pa. wine and spirit stores will indefinitely close Tuesday amid COVID-19 concerns
All Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores and licensee service centers statewide will close indefinitely Tuesday to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board announced Monday.
All stores will close at 9 p.m. Tuesday until further notice, according to a news release. Sales on the Fine Wine & Good Spirits website will stop at 5 p.m. Monday.
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COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN TO OFFER FREE LUNCH – WEEKDAYS STARTING MARCH 17
As of this Tuesday, March 17, a free lunch will be served weekdays at Columbia Presbyterian hands across the street 4th and locust 11 am to 1 pm.
Gov. Tom Wolf orders state shutdown of non-essential stores as of midnight – pennlive.com
Gov. Tom Wolf has announced that Pennsylvania has ordered a shutdown of non-essential stores, as well as bars and restaurants except for takeout and delivery as of midnight. He anticipates it to continue for two weeks.
This also includes day programs for seniors. He also called for day care facilities to close, but they will not be forced to do so. There is no plans to order a curfew at this time, but Wolf urged people to stay home as much as possible. He also won’t force the dirt racing tracks that remained open over the weekend to close, but urged owners to take the safety of residents into account when scheduling future races.
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About Town 3/15/20
This week’s photos of Columbia
People came out to enjoy the nice weather last Monday.
It was a good day for jotting notes.
It was also a good day for flying.
The highway department patched cracks on the blacktop.
Street sweeping resumed. Vehicles that weren’t moved got warnings instead of tickets – this time.
There’s the sweeper now.
Motorcycles got warnings, too.
The rehabilitation project for the Veterans Memorial Bridge is slated to begin in 2023.
The public meeting about the project, scheduled for this coming Wednesday, was canceled due to coronavirus fears.
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Sign of life at the river shore
Steeples on Chestnut
Over at the National Watch & Clock Museum
This will never pass building codes.
The historical marker that was found lying over last week has been tied upright temporarily, presumably to get it off the grass at the bridge plaza.
Here’s a closer look.
The first Civil War bridge pier is becoming a favorite hangout.
There are chickens for sale at Burning Bridge Antiques.
Don’t lose your head over coronavirus fears, as this lady apparently did.
The CHI construction project at 401-403 Locust is moving right along.
Here’s a closer look at the front.
It was busy at the construction site this week.
Outside and in
Looks like the window glass has arrived, too.
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Notices on the door of Living Stones Masonry
Here’s a close-up.
The section of the posted document pertaining to this property reads:
Usdin Realty Management LLC is requesting special exception(s) and/or variance(s) for the business of purchasing, reconditioning and selling fire trucks at the property located at 53 North Front Street in the Riverfront Commercial (RC) zoned district.
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These guys were apparently checking our gas lines this week.
Here they are on the 400 block of Chestnut.
One is carrying some sort of detector.
Here’s their vehicle.
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New windows were installed on this building on Bridge Street.
Veterans Memorial Bridge
Pentecostal Church at 3rd & Cherry
NAWCC
The Market House project continues.
Here’s the beginning of the fancy – and expensive – awning on the Sadie Lane side.
Looks like the Big Ass Fans will be staying. They were installed a few years ago.
(Yes, that really is the brand name.)
Another look inside from the 3rd Street side.
(According to the Lancaster County Tax Assessment Office (3/5/2020), the Market House is assessed at $301,400. Borough Hall is assessed at $534,100, and the adjoining land is assessed at $78,000.)
(According to the Lancaster County Tax Assessment Office (3/5/2020), the Market House is assessed at $301,400. Borough Hall is assessed at $534,100, and the adjoining land is assessed at $78,000.)
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Here’s the broken lamp at Columbia River Park after a pickup truck hit the post and left the scene.
Here’s one way to practice isolation and social distancing, although that probably wasn’t the vehicle’s original purpose.
Skateboarding isn’t really permitted at River Park, but youth finds a way.
Dusk
A drama unfolded on the first offshore Civil War bridge pier on Saturday morning.
A Canada goose seemed to be threatened by what looked to be a trumpeter swan.
The goose launched several attacks against the swan.
Here’s a video of the action.
After the attacks, the swan sat on the edge of the pier and appeared to have blood on its underside.
Last week, Columbia Spy posted a few photos of appeared to be a dead trumpeter swan HERE, which was misidentified as a tundra swan. Was it the mate of this swan? What killed it is still a mystery.
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Out at the borough farm . . .
And out on Blue Lane . . .
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There was water rescue training at River Park on Sunday Morning:
Participating departments included Columbia Borough, Wellsville, Western Berks, and Rawlinsville.
Todd Stahl of White Cap Water Rescue Training LLC led the training.
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Over at the Columbia Water Company office:
Here’s a public notice posted at the main plant next to River Park.
Last but not least: “Murder at the Miller Mansion” is coming soon.
Columbia Crossing, NAWCC Closed
All Pa. school districts closing for 2 weeks over coronavirus fears
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered all schools in the state to close for the next two weeks.
The announcement came during a frenetic Friday afternoon that began with Lancaster County school districts initially announcing they would shut down for a week starting Monday. Schools are now expected to reopen March 30.
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CANCELED: March 18 meeting on Veterans Memorial Bridge Project
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation planned to hold a Public “Open House Meeting on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 for the SR 462 Veterans Memorial (Columbia-Wrightsville) Bridge Rehabilitation Project. However, per guidance issued by the Governor’s office on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and as a precaution to the welfare of the community and the project team, this meeting has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
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Pennsylvania’s health department is keeping coronavirus details from local officials
HARRISBURG — For the first time since the coronavirus hit Pennsylvania, state officials have released data on how many people have been tested, but refused to give out more information about where infected persons are located, despite calls from some county officials and lawmakers for them to provide specifics.
Because the state runs investigations into the virus in counties without health departments, officials say the information they collect falls under a 1955 law that gives the department broad discretion to keep the information about contagious diseases secret.
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Superior Court rejects appeal from man who killed his mother when he was 14 years old
A Columbia man who fatally shot his mother in 1976 when he was 14 will not get any relief on his sentence despite being eligible for parole for the past three years, a Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
Gregory S. Sourbeer, now 58, argued that he should be resentenced to a shorter term and that his current minimum sentence of 25 years in prison is illegal, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
In 2017, Sourbeer was resentenced to 25 years to life and was given credit for his 41 years already served in prison, court records said, due to a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of murder.
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