Columbia Fire Chief Scott Ryno details findings about a potentially unstable building at 208-210 Locust Street. Earlier in the day, some residents expressed concerns about the safety of the structure. Emergency personnel responded at about 4:30 this afternoon to investigate the building. The 200 block of Locust was shut down for several hours as a collapse team, structural engineers, and fire personnel examined the structure.
Author: SPY
Is the building moving at 208-210 Locust?
208-210 Locust Street was investigated this afternoon for concerns about the building’s structural integrity.
Round tank rolls through two counties
On Friday, a large storage tank was transported from Elizabethtown to York and briefly passed through Columbia when it entered the Wrights Ferry (Route 30) Bridge.
Columbia Spy caught up with the tank in York County.
The backstory is here:
Photo by Rodie Cox
A workman drove ahead to lift utility wires to allow the tank to pass.
STOP WORK!
The property at 208-210 Locust Street is showing signs of structural damage, especially under the second row of windows from the top. This morning, workers appeared to be examining the damage (second photo below), and this afternoon a STOP WORK order appeared on the window of the property.
Friday afternoon
Saturday morning
Saturday afternoon
Will it affect Columbia? Wrightsville water officials bracing for chemical-fire contaminants
Local officials learned in a conference call with state Department of Environmental Protection that contaminants from a massive fire Monday at an Adams County chemical company could reach the borough’s water-intake pumps Saturday morning, prompting members of the Wrightsville Borough Municipal Authority to take pre-emptive action.
MORE:
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_28297048/wrightsville-water-officials-bracing-chemical-fire-contaminants
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_28297048/wrightsville-water-officials-bracing-chemical-fire-contaminants
As of about 5 a.m. today, there was no mention of the issue on the Columbia Water Company’s website:
This morning, WGAL-TV reported that Columbia is one of the municipalities notified.
Columbia native’s poem portrays Conestoga Indian as man of peace
A native of Columbia, Chester Wittell was a brilliant, eccentric, self-absorbed man. He composed hundreds of songs and symphonies and thousands of poems.
Steel tanker traveling through Columbia from Elizabethtown to York to cause road delays
On Friday morning, a 17 foot tall by 70 foot wide, steel tank will be making its way through the western part of Lancaster County and down into York County, causing delays on the roadways.
About town
Today . . .
Middle of the road
Rolling along on Fourth
Righting a stone at Bethel
Vulture on the prowl
Honey, I shrunk the car.
Inspecting the bridge
Spotted today on Avenue J
These markings were spotted today on Avenue J.
Is there a project in the works?
A Celestial Menagerie – Solo show by Robert Hammer
Robert Hammer is having a solo art show at Weavings, INK Art Gallery in Wrightsville beginning this weekend. The show will be open on Saturday and (Special hours for this show only)… Sunday for June 13th, June 14th and June 20th and the 21st. The hours are from 10am-6pm each day of the show, and Mr. Hammer will be gallery sitting each day as well. There will be an Opening Reception on June 13th from 10am-6pm.Refreshments and light snacks will be served. On the final day of the show June 21, A Summer Solstice party will be held from 10am-6pm. The Receptions are FREE to attend and open to the public.
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