Claire Storm Roast April 7 at CHS
Rolling on the River – Keystone Edge looks at Columbia
Columbia, Lancaster County, is a town nestled along the mighty Susquehanna River. Walk through downtown towards the water and you’ll pass historic brick buildings, vintage storefronts and Victorian homes. You’ll see thriving antique markets, a brewpub, a world-renowned museum and a stately market hall.
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https://www.keystoneedge.com/2018/02/20/rolling-on-the-river/
Bid Package for Lease of Columbia Market House – Bids Due 3-7-18
Columbia Borough is accepting bids for the leasing of the Columbia Historic Market House.
Go HERE to download the bid package that includes the legal notice, instructions, forms, and other information.
Borough seeks former Market House standholder
The borough is trying to locate Rickey Poe, a former standholder at the Columbia Market House, to return items to him. Please call the borough at 717-684-2467 if you have any information.
Citations, etc. | Columbia Borough Police Department
SYDNEY A. NEVENXCHWANDER, AGE 25, OF LEOLA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVERS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED, IN THE 1300 BLOCK OF IRONVILLE PIKE, 17 FEBRUARY 2018.
COLIN S. COPELAND, AGE 33, OF MARIETTA, WAS CITED FOR STOP SIGNS & YIELD SIGNS, AT LINDEN STREET AND ROUTE 30 EAST, 16 FEBRUARY 2018.
SUSAN LINDSAY MILES, AGE 35, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED, IN THE 700 BLOCK OF LOCUST STREET, 16 FEBRUARY 2018.
BRADLEY K. MYERS, AGE 47, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE, AT 5TH. AND MAPLE STREETS, 16 FEBRUARY 2018.
PABLO J. COLON-ORENGO, AGE 34, OF MOUNTVILLE, WAS CITED FOR TRAFFIC-CONTROL SIGNALS AT NORTH 3RD. AND LINDEN STREETS, 18 FEBRUARY 2018.
KAITLYN A. SWEIGART, AGE 23, OF EPHRATA, WAS CITED FOR OPERATION OF VEHICLE WITHOUT OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION, IN THE 1400 BLOCK OF MANOR STREET, 19 FEBRUARY 2018.
THURSTON KENION, AGE 33, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED ON NORTH 2ND. STREET AND POPLAR STREET, 16 FEBRUARY 2018.
BRUCE FREDERICK SNYDER, AGE 54, OF YORK, WAS CITED FOR PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS IN THE 700 BLOCK OF MANOR STREET, 19 FEBRUARY 2018.
https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/post/citations-etc-15
About Town
Photos from around Columbia over the past week…
The Grinch is at it again.
This time he’s playing Cupid at Tacos to Go.
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Someone left a motorcycle trophy outside.
Someone left a Flyers trashcan outside.
(Is someone making a statement?)
Flagpoles at the bridge plaza.
There might be a presentation with flags flying on May 26 of this year.
This is what happens when you leave a stump unattended for too long – It grows a hubcap.
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Interior of the Market House
Workers were seen removing stands last Thursday.
Columbia Borough is receiving bids until March 7, 2018 for the leasing of the building.
The legal notice is HERE.
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One of several unofficial NO PARKING signs near South 6th & Locust last week.
Hey, who snapped this tree on North 3rd (near Hinkle’s)?
Maybe one of the “covert” cameras saw the perpetrator.
Deflating
(We all have days like this.)
117 & 119 North 5th:
Renovated and ready to rent.
Snowman on the 500 block of Chestnut
And an accomplice
Although this one on South 4th will probably last longer.
Leaving town
Steel plates? We got ’em!
Renovating at Hinkle’s
City Gate’s events calendar
Free coffee, donut, and tour
Well….
Happy Birthday!
Way up high at St. Peter’s Apartments
Yep, way up high
Fallen bricks on the 300 block of South 4th
Some sort of towers on their sides on the first block of Barber
Glass, lots o’ glass
(301 Locust)
More work behind the Rising Sun/Prudhomme’s building
Here’s a longer view.
Up the ladder
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Guys removing slate shingles at the library
Hard at work
View from the front
Stacking them on the skid
The big picture
Heavy load, higher and higher
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What’s happening here?
Looks like Art Printing at the bottom of Locust got their windows painted.
Lookin’ good!
Here’s their hanging sign.
No worries – the original is now inside the shop.
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Civil War bridge pier near the Veterans Memorial Bridge
Meanwhile, over at Columbia Crossing, the seagulls are re-enacting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.
Jet ski storage along Heritage Drive
This past Saturday, the river starting creeping up again.
Fortunately, this sentinel kept watch.
On Sunday, it crept further.
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Out at 1019 Lancaster Avenue, this humble house has seen its last days. Demolition has begun.
Here’s the back roof in the back yard.
Most of the debris went directly into the purple dumpster.
Here’s what it looked like from the other side of the street.
And closer up
Tearing it down
Going, going, gone!
Another one bites the dust, or in this case – the mud!
Jim Warner, who transformed waste authority into national model, built community projects, to retire
When studies showed trash trucks made up one-third of the truck traffic driving through Columbia Borough, the authority financed one-third the cost of a study for a new bypass.
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Lancaster County's Underground Railroad heritage celebrated with programs, new markers
Columbia Borough officials are working to preserve the Underground Railroad history on the Susquehanna River waterfront.
African-Americans seeking freedom, and aided by Underground Railroad volunteers, came to Columbia across the Susquehanna at the site of an old wooden bridge there.
“That’s so important in the Underground Railroad story,” says Randolph Harris of the African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania. Nearby are ruins of locks and a dam that were part of a canal system that was also part of the Underground Railroad, he says.
“The old piers and the old canal ruins are part of a new (riverfront redevelopment) plan that’s being worked on by Columbia Borough,” Harris says. “They will do whatever they can to preserve those ruins. I’m confident they’re going to do a nice job of telling the story … to the educational and economic benefit of the area.”
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Manheim Township foresees 'potentially lengthy and costly legal process' in tax collector lawsuit
In order for a school district to lawfully collect its own taxes, the elected tax collector must permit — or “deputize” — the school district to do so.
Out of 17 school districts in the county — only Conestoga Valley doesn’t collect school property taxes in-house.
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Columbia PA Neighborhood Watch group releases 1st newsletter
Columbia Spy 