About Town – May 25, 2025

 This week’s photos of Columbia 

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It rained so much last week that this person used two umbrellas. 

Holly Love collected flags to replace those that were stolen at Laurel Hill Cemetery.  She and others placed them on veterans’ graves.

WGAL showed up to cover the event. 

Here are some flags on Chestnut Street.

The bus doesn’t stop here anymore, but the sign’s still there (way up there) on the 500 block of Chestnut. 

New blacktop just off Heritage Drive 

Sign at CHiPS

PPL removed the electric meter at 700 Franklin Street, in preparation for the upcoming demolition. 

Chalk art at Locust Street Park 

Another photo shoot on Front Street 

Where it all happens, right or wrong, good or bad.

Now accepting EBT at 234B Locust Street. 

Note the address. It used to be labeled as 236.

Not the beginning of Apocalypse Now, just a patch of bamboo.

At 5th & Cherry

For lease, for rent

New sheriff in town 

More roofwork at Columbia Crossing 

ICE is in town.

About that rain – there was a lot of it.

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“Sleep till the day breaketh”

Flag maintenance 

A former nightclub on Union

Raspberries 

A notice on a truck on South 4th

Paintings on the truck

And there’s the truck.

Racecar on Manor

At the borough farm

[Submitted photo]

House fire Sunday afternoon at 623 Chestnut Street 

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Public meeting to be held on CDBG needs and projects l – May 21, 2025

The following legal notice was originally published in LNP/LancasterOnline on May 16, 2025:

PUBLIC MEETING ON CDBG NEEDS AND PROJECTS

Correction: The Planning Commission meeting will be on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

Columbia Borough will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, as part of their regular monthly Planning Commission meeting. The hearing will be held at the Columbia Borough Hall, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA 17512, and will begin at approximately 7:15 PM. The purpose of this hearing is to discuss needs in the community which Columbia Borough is planning to address with funds available under Lancaster County’s Fiscal Year 2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. Columbia Borough Council has identified a project that it intends to submit to the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Lancaster to address one or more of the needs identified by Columbia Borough and contained in Lancaster County’s Fiscal Years 2021-2025 Consolidated Plan. Public comments or questions for consideration at the meeting will be accepted until 4:00 PM, May 21, 2025, to Steven Kaufhold, Borough Manager, via email at skaufhold@columbiapa.net or phone at (717-684-2467). The public may stream the meeting via the Borough’s YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcCBMngwpMdb1AmgtR_MlFQ. Columbia Borough Council invites affected residents, property owners, and other stakeholders to attend this meeting to identify other needs that should be addressed and to comment on the following potential proposed project(s): The request is for $200,000 in CDBG Funding for the rehabilitation of the 300 Block of Union Street. The project includes the installation of a new curb and sidewalk on both sides of the street, new ADA-compliant curb ramps, and street repaving.