Head-On!

A head-on collision occurred Friday afternoon on South Fifth Street near Avenue N. A gray Saturn traveling north allegedly crossed lanes and struck a yellow Mustang facing south.

Property taxes are generally affordable, advocacy group finds

According to the report, residents in Columbia, Cocalico, Donegal, Lampeter-Strasburg and Octorara are paying a bigger share of property taxes in relation to their taxable personal income than those living in other parts of the county.

September Wrap-up

Some pics from around town over the last little while . . . 
 Above it all

 Les Paul

 Strat

 Coleus colors

 Four in a row plus one

 Good morning

 Invisible web

 Cumulus accumulation

 Tangle of tape

 Busted!

 Where there’s smoke . . . 

 Cut

In memory of Max
This town’s for the birds . . . 
 Vultures
 Pigeons

Funky Chicken

Buy a patch – Support a cause

Still available . . .

The Columbia Police Department is raising funds on behalf of the American Cancer Society with a specially designed pink Columbia Police uniform patch. 

The patch is designed to promote breast cancer awareness.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Columbia Police Officers will have the option of wearing the pink patches on their uniform shirts during the month of October.
Patches can be purchased by collectors at a cost of $20 per patch. All proceeds raised by the sale of the patches will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
To buy a patch, contact Columbia police Officer Austin Miller at 684-7735.

Albatwitch Festival – the star didn't show, but the bands played on

Unfortunately, the star of the show – the albatwitch – didn’t appear, but many others did, at the First Annual Albatwitch festival in Columbia on Saturday.  The festival, a joint effort by Rick Fisher of the Museum of Mysteries, and Chris Vera, president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society (CHiPS), continued the weekend’s festive events which featured the Fourth Friday “Feet in the Street” the night before.  
Saturday’s festival included live music, food, and a variety of talks by various speakers at CHiPs headquarters on Second Street. The event also included an apple pie contest (due to the albatwitch’s penchant for eating apples).  Deborah Clark took first place in the contest.
Free tours of the “dungeon” of the Columbia Market House were also offered.
An ET (a “gray”) watched the day’s proceedings on the 200 block of Locust Street.
Museum of Mysteries founder Rick Fisher talked about things paranormal . . . 

to a standing-room-only crowd at the Columbia Historic Preservation Society.

A sketch of . . . an albatwitch ?

Is Chiques Rock haunted?
Rick Fisher lectured about things paranormal at the Columbia Historic Preservation Society to a standing room only crowd.

Some views of the dusty, musty dungeon during a free tour in the basement of the Columbia Market House . . .

First place in the apple pie contest – Deborah Clark