Memorial Day Parade – May 26, 2024
About Town – May 26, 2024
This week’s photos of Columbia
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The ice cream truck is making its rounds.
Out for a walk
A vehicle backed into a utility pole at Smith’s Hotel.
This is the result.
It’s that time again.
Columbia’s firehouse
(CBFD 80)
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An eagle wasn’t available for the top of the flagpole, so this sparrow filled in.
The docks are in.
A rusty flag (waving in the wind)?
Mourning dove in the afternoon
An ornate cellar window grate on the 200 block of Locust
Bunting for Memorial Day
A knuckleheaded cherub
That’s one way to transport your weeds.
Roses
X marks the spot
A cloud feather in the sky
He supposedly spent a night in the Columbia dungeon.
Flow the Rock Snake is back.
In August of 2023, Flow looked like this.
A month later, Flow looked like this.
Columbia, a “model” town
Green light to promote mental health awareness month, appropriately enough at borough hall
Graffiti on the trail
60 years ago this was a storage building (?) for PP&L
Flying high
Fairly new arrivals
At the Chua Phap Hoa Buddhist Temple at South Second and Cherry
Double A
Modern art is trash.
Camouflaged!
Revealed!
Time for Plan B!
Free piano on North 3rd
The former Manor Street School, now apartments
The building is now managed by The Apartment Gallery
Blue Rock, Ephrata, and Lancaster City trained at River Park this morning.
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[LNP | LancasterOnline] Columbia Sunshine Act investigation closes, raising questions about open meetings law [Lancaster Watchdog]
So when the borough’s historic architectural review board, planning commission and zoning hearing board neglected to post a few agendas before scheduled meetings in November, [Joe] Lintner noticed. The state’s transparency and open meetings law, the Sunshine Act, requires agendas to be posted 24 hours in advance of a meeting so residents know what to expect.
It didn’t take long for Lintner to call the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office to report what he believed was a Sunshine Act violation. The borough promises transparency, he said, and it did not feel like leaders were delivering.
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VEHICLE THEFT – 100 BLOCK OF SOUTH FIFTH STREET | Columbia Borough Police Department
Columbia’s Watch & Clock Museum to Honor Our Heroes on 4th Friday
As part of its new Community Cultural Program, the National Watch & Clock Museum is excited to participate in Columbia’s 4th Friday program.
On May 24 the theme is Honoring Our Heroes, and the Museum will host a presentation on “The War-Winning History of the Hamilton Watch Co.” by Michael Schwartz, associate editor of Museum publications.
Join us this Friday from 5:00 to 5:30 pm to learn how this famous Lancaster company pushed the boundaries of technology and manufacturing to make some of the devices that helped the Allies win the war.
Attendees are welcome to leave their cars parked on our lot as they visit other businesses in downtown Columbia.
Agenda – Columbia Borough Planning Commission Meeting – May 21, 2024
Deeds Recorded – Columbia Borough – May 20, 2024
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Sheriff of Lancaster County PA, Richelle L. McLasky and Hunter A. Shoop conveyed 22 N. Sixth St. to FHG 92 LLC for $173,000.
Justin S. Misal conveyed 415 N. Sixth St. to Austin Christopher Clark and Nicole Newswanger for $180,000.
Could TMI be restarted? Someone asked, and the owner didn’t say no – pennlive.com
About Town – May 19, 2024
This week’s photos of Columbia
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On reflection
Volunteers placed flags, in the rain, at Laurel Hill on Saturday.
New finial (temporarily)
Guardian of the gate
A gaggle of geese coming ashore . . .
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Nakba Day commemorates the 1948 “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians by Israeli forces, when the State of Israel was founded. The genocide continues to this day.
The Habitat for Humanity project on South 5th is almost complete. Banners of welcome are hanging in the back . . .
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Mount Bethel Cemetery
Made in the shade
Backhoe parking only
What’s happening at 14 Lancaster Avenue?
Checking reliability on North 5th . . .
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Bird on a wire
Ready for a barbecue
We got a lot of rain this past week.
Can’t they do this in the middle of the night?
Bamboo forest
Up close
Go to the Boring Bar.
Perspective
Tires in Avenue N
Hidden message?
Food trailer at the Shops at Prospect
Upgrades at ASC, formerly Anvil, formerly Grinnell . . .
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Patriotic windows
At the Buddhist temple
Spell check, please
Tree truck
Dinnertime at the tracks
Birds can get tangled in this crap.
Memorial Day in Columbia | TownLively
Columbia will kick off its Memorial Day events at noon on Sunday, May 26, with a performance from the Bainbridge Band in the gazebo in Locust Street Park, 550 Locust St. At 1 p.m., a ceremony will begin.
The ceremony will feature community members and local dignitaries who will honor the holiday. “There will be a reading of the Gettysburg Address, remarks from Mayor Lutz, a main speaker … and a prayer by deacon Henry Reese,” said Bob Herman, one of the event organizers.
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