Agenda – Columbia School Board Meeting – August 15, 2019
Lawmakers are talking about eliminating school property taxes. Again.
“From Columbia Borough… to Elanco, to Manheim, to Ephrata to Elizabethtown – I hear it everywhere,” Aument said in an interview in Harrisburg on Wednesday. “I don’t think there’s a district, at least in northern Lancaster County, that’s immune from passion around that topic and that issue.”
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Nifty Needles at the Library – Thursday, August 15
Used needles, heroin left in a makeup bag on a Carrabba's table lead to charges for Columbia woman
Caitlyn Amanda Hughes
A Columbia woman is facing charges after a Carrabba’s employee was poked with a used hypodermic needle.
The needle was left behind in a makeup bag on a table Aug. 11. The bag contained 20 used hypodermic needs, 18 of which were uncapped, police said.
There were also 16 baggies of heroin and a metal spoon inside the bag, according to police.
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THE COLUMBIA BOROUGH POLICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP TO IDENTIFY THIS MAN | Columbia Borough Police Department
The Columbia Borough Police are investigating an incident that happened in the 100 Block of South 4th Street. The CBPD needs your help to identify the man in the attached photographs.
Anyone with information about this suspect is encouraged to contact the Columbia Borough Police Department at 717-684-7735 or text LANCS to 847411.
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Case Status: Current
Case Type: Criminal
Case Region: Northeastern
Source: Columbia Borough Police Department
Sourced via CRIMEWATCH®: https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/cases/columbia-borough-police-department-needs-your-help-identify-man
Columbia Borough awarded $1.75 million matching grant (pending final application) for Market House, parking
Columbia Borough has been approved to receive $1.75 million for renovations to Columbia Market House and the creation of additional downtown parking.
The money comes from Pennsylvania’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Grant program. Columbia’s project is one of six in the county that received a total of $4.95 million in the program’s most recent funding round.
Administered through the Office of the Budget, the grants must be matched with an equivalent or greater dollar amount from local sources — thus, in Columbia’s case, the total budget would be at least $3.5 million.
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5 Lancaster County districts, IU13 receive nearly $1 million in state school safety grants
The Columbia Borough School District received the most funding within the county, with grants totaling $361,610 to replace its aging public address system, support the school resource officer position and create a visitor management system.
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Agenda – Columbia Borough Council Meeting – August 13, 2019
About Town 8/11/19
This week’s photos of Columbia
Officer Mann gives directions.
Because moments earlier, this happened.
A flatbed hauling railroad ties making a right turn onto North 3rd (heading south) from Chestnut was heading right smack-dab towards the police car (far left).
With a second flatbed close behind. Fortunately, a collision was averted.
Better order a gross of these, considering all the recent road construction.
Will that be 1-1/2 tickets or 2?
Archway in Avenue F
Antiques
Ready to roll
Religious icon and heavenly light
Collecting rainwater or avoiding erosion?
Some people can do this.
Fresh produce at Andy’s on Ironville Pike
Leaning ever more day by day
Hooray for the blue, white, and red!
For collecting rainwater?
It’s right up there at the Saint John Lutheran Church.
Why is the grass always greener on the other side?
Post: abandoned
Progress at “Coffee and Cream” at Front & Walnut
Another of those painted rocks
Plans: revealed
Several apartments available
Notice #1
Notice #2
Notice #3
Some folks claim this is their middle name.
Another wide turn: 2nd onto Union
Rumor has it there’s a cottage in there somewhere.
There it is.
Welcome to the jungle!
Shoring it up
Progress at 208-210 Locust
For everyone who doesn’t like “negative news,” here’s where the good news is, down at the bus stop, straight from God! (Says so right on the poster.)
At least it’s not a mattress this time.
When you need to mow your brick sidewalk
[Submitted photo]
After a recent rain
More progress at Keysone Cap
It got bent.
Second-floor butterfly bush
It ends way up there?
The Locust Street Swamp
At least the stop sign is protected.
Enjoying the view
They’re still with us.
Flutterby on flower
Two-engine vehicle
Everything’s possible in Columbia – even a weed growing out of the top of a post.
Everyone’s favorite Columbia club
There’s even a billboard for it in York County – to bring visitors into town.
But fortunately this is at the edge of town ^^^
Self-referential sign?
Mrs. Pit
Gender-neutral restroom – old school
Bell towers
Time to unwrap
Bird on many wires
Open air tour
Field of Screams is in town.
Spigots and containers
About to get breakfast
Backyard windmill
Humongous hose reel
The tiny house is for sale.
(Columbia Spy posted an article about it HERE.)
Beating the heat
The infamous sign – now with more and better graphics
Long lashes
Helping Hands Bike Blessing & Fundraiser, Sept. 7 at 291 S. 4th Street
