Author: SPY
Columbia officers saved a man who tried to hang himself in a cell at the police station Friday morning, police said.
The 45-year-old man’s name was not released because charges have not yet been filed against him, borough police Chief Jack Brommer said.
Bank robberies linked to serial bandit
COLUMBIA, Pa. (WHTM) –
The man who robbed a Columbia bank last month may be a serial bandit who’s responsible for at least eight similar crimes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
The man who robbed a Columbia bank last month may be a serial bandit who’s responsible for at least eight similar crimes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
Columbia is advised to accept LASA plan for wastewater treatment
Columbia Borough's ad hoc wastewater management committee has recommended to council that the borough accept Lancaster Area Sewer Authority's proposal to assume wastewater treatment and management.
They're coming down
Columbia updates rules governing street trees in the borough
Columbia Borough Council clarified issues about planting, trimming and paying for shade trees, during their meeting Monday, May 12 as they amended the borough’s “shade tree ordinance.”
Helping claws: Falcon from Columbia hooks up with one from Harrisburg to form new nest in Reading
Mix in a female peregrine falcon that hatched from the Route 462 bridge in Columbia in 2011 with a 9-year-old male falcon from Harrisburg and you get a nest with three or four young falcons right now in Reading.
New cast-iron lanterns being installed on the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge
From York Daily Record:
http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_25747637/some-new-cast-iron-lanterns-expected-be-lit
What I saw recently
Some pics from around town over the last few days . . .
Threaded rods and nuts that will be used to secure a lighting fixture on the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
At the Columbia Historic Preservation Society on Second Street:
One of the original lights from the entrance to the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Like the sign says . . .
Hey, doesn’t he work for Taco Bell?
Must be his day off.
Scene from the living room window:
I think this is a female red-headed house sparrow.
View from the bridge:
The River Park project continues.
Aerial view of a killdeer on the tracks:
It’s only fair; birds look down on us all the time.
Relaxing – but keeping an eye on things.
Another view of the River Park project under construction.
How much is that . . . well, you know the rest.
Continuing to rise
More bridge lighting fixtures have arrived recently. Lights have been installed in some.
Two of the original bridge light fixtures on the front lawn of Sahd Salvage along Route 462.
Damn straight!
We knew it all along!




















