Breakfast With Santa Planned | TownLively
Wrights Ferry/Columbia 300th Anniversary meeting scheduled for December 8
📣📣📣Reminder:
The next Wrights Ferry/Columbia 300th Anniversary meeting is scheduled for:
When: December 8, at 7PM.
Where: Columbia Borough Hall, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA 17512.
The public is invited.
2-hour Delay—Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025
Nonprofit led by veteran journalist David Greene to acquire LNP | LancasterOnline, creating nonprofit news organization | Local News | lancasteronline.com
A new nonprofit led by journalist and former National Public Radio host David Greene will assume ownership of LNP | LancasterOnline as a gift from current owner Pennon, a transfer that opens the door to philanthropic and charitable giving to bolster local news reporting, it was announced today.
The transfer, subject to approval by the state Attorney General’s office, could happen by month’s end.
Readers and advertisers won’t see immediate changes, but Always Lancaster, the new nonprofit’s name, will consider changes to staffing and the seven-days-a-week print-publication schedule.
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Deeds Recorded—Columbia Borough—December 1, 2025
The estate of Miller Francis J. Jr, Miller David M. conveyed 118 N. Eighth St. to 402 West Lemon LLC for $20,000.
John P. Britcher conveyed 24 N. Fifth St. to Danparsonteam LLC for $142,300.
The estate of Joseph W. Lowe conveyed 852 Blunston St. to Awakened Properties LLC for $55,000.
Annabelle Auer conveyed property on a public road to Cleghorn Joshua Benjamin for $265,000.
Esh Samuel E, Esh Emma S. conveyed property on a public road to Esch Rentals LLC for $460,000.
About Town—November 30, 2025
This week’s photos of Columbia
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Figures in the fog
(Holy Trinity Cemetery)
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Andre Underhill, owner of Rivertowne Trolley, took people around town on Small Business Saturday.
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This vehicle was at borough hall this week.
Will there be a fire tax?
(Stay tuned.)
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Christmas mural by anndope at the State Theatre Vintage Emporium.
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Santa at Columbia Curiosities
Krampus at Columbia Curiosities
Reindeer on the lawn on the 400 block of Chestnut
Candy canes in a tree on the 200 block of North 3rd
Fog and more fog . . .
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This season is basically over.
Crazy face in a window on the first block of North 3rd
Sunrise
Raising the flag
And don’t forget the leaves.
NO PARKING under the bridge
Worker at the Habitat for Humanity Linden Street Build
Another broken mirror
Another true believer
Tractor at Tollbooth
At Salem UCC
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The bottom of Plane Street
House ready to be demoed
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Organizations To Provide Christmas Food Boxes | TownLively
Columbia Dream Center and Bully’s serve hundreds of Thanksgiving meals
Striking the Right Notes | TownLively
Thanks to a collaboration between community partners, there’s a new, free way to make music in Columbia.
Members of Susquehanna River Creative Conspiracy (SRCC) have teamed up with Music for Everyone to bring a public piano to Coffee and Cream, 101 N. Front St., Columbia.
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Columbia Borough School District received over $800,000 increase in state funding this year | Community News | lancasteronline.com
MORGAN HUBER | FOR LNP | LANCASTERONLINE
When: Columbia Borough school board meeting, Nov. 20.
What happened: Following a five-month state budget delay, the district learned it received $14.4 million in state funding following the approval of the 2025-26 budget, an $828,300 increase from last year and substantially more than officials said they expected.
Background: The amount includes $11.3 million in basic education funding, as well as $2.03 million for special education and $1.09 million in Ready to Learn funds, Keith Ramsey, business manager, said. The most notable increase was for programming under the Ready to Learn block grant, for which Columbia Borough received a nearly $800,000 increase in support.
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