Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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it's a shame the Boro wouldn't ENCOURAGE LOCAL BUSINESSES WITH FREE METERS THE 4TH FRIDAY FOR SHOPPERS ONLY....NOT TENANTS OF LOCAL PROPERTIES.....now that my friend would make sense.
So how would that even be done? The shopkeepers could give out quarters for the meters. But the boro doesn't (and shouldn't) need to be involved.
Otherwise, you either have to pay the meters when you park or you don't. Doesn't really matter why you are parked. I mean, one person's quarters are as good as another's, right?.
Anyway, all the 1st Fridays in the world aren't going to change the fact downtown is still dead.
--FMB