Conoy Township pro-gun signs vandalized, leaders hope to profit

A fundraising idea for Columbia?
After new pro-gun signs were vandalized in Conoy Township, leaders hope to sell similar ones to benefit local nonprofits.

Extreme tax hikes not expected outside city school district

“We have no place to go to tax anybody anymore. … The little bit more that we would get wouldn’t bail us out,” said Laura Cowburn, business manager for Columbia Borough School District.
Her district has the same Act 1 index as the city district: 2.8 percent. That’s the highest index in the county.

Aftermath of bus incident

Columbia Borough Police Officers Austin Miller and Bryan Keyser talk to a woman who had been asked to leave an RRTA bus near Fourth and Chestnut at about 3:50 p.m. on February 9, 2015. It appeared as though Officer Miller escorted her from the bus. Apparently, the woman was upset about having had to wait a long time for the bus to pick her up at Ninth and Locust. (It’s difficult to hear the conversation due to traffic noise; I was standing on the other side of the highway.)

Columbia foursome jailed for burglary, baseball-bat beating of 2 women

Four Columbia residents each received lengthy prison terms for breaking into a home in 2013 and beating two women with baseball bats.
Three men and a woman were charged with entering the Columbia home on Nov. 5, 2013, and beating the female occupants after three men inside fled, according to testimony.

Enjoy watching the workers – you're paying for them

Construction workers were on the job at the Columbia Water Company today, Sunday.  I felt like it was costing me money just to watch them. And of course it was, since I and other water company customers are paying for the construction through the Pennvest surcharge recently added to our water bills to pay off the loan for the project.
The PUC held a hearing on the water company’s proposed rate increase about a year and a half ago and ultimately denied the request, but the company sneaked through this de facto increase anyway.

Our only recourse right now is to file complaints with the PUC:  800-692-7380. The more customers who complain, the better the chance of the PUC acting on this.
More information on filing a complaint can obtained by clicking HERE.
Construction workers at the Columbia Water Company today . . .

Is this Donald’s private skating pond?

Where's the Sunday News?

None of the vending dispensers around town contained any copies of the Sunday News this morning, as of about 10 a.m., although some contained last Thursday’s paper. Stover’s and the Minit Market on the highway had stacks of the Sunday News. So why not these street corner racks? 
(Phone calls to the circulation department yielded no answers, just recordings.)