Columbia Spy

Next week employees with CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health will be in town going door to door to speak with residents about lead paint hazards. This is not a mandated Borough program but a voluntary initiative of Healthy Columbia, a project of CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health.

Source: Columbia Borough Police Department

Rebecca Denlinger is on track to becoming Columbia’s next borough manager. In a unanimous vote Monday night, Columbia Borough Council hired Denlinger as a full-time Community/Economic Development Director/Assistant Borough Manager, effective January 1, 2018. From there, she will assume the position of Borough Manager on January 1, 2019. She currently serves Columbia as an independent contractor with her company Rising Tide Collaborative, LLC, in the position of Economic Development Coordinator.

Denlinger holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Delaware, and a Master’s in Public Administration from Penn State. She has worked with the Elizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce, Rettew Associates, Inc., and the Lancaster County Planning Commission and has also served as a consultant for Marietta Borough this year.

At Monday night’s council meeting, Council President Kelly Murphy said Denlinger will assume the position of Borough Manager at the end of 2018, because current Borough Manager Greg Sahd has indicated “he is looking to retire” at that time.

On Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 2048 hours Officers received a call to respond to the area of the 1700 block of Hilltop Road, Washington Boro., for a report of vehicles driving through the caller’s property and damaging the fields.