GONE!
The former Pizza Hut building along Route 462 was demolished today.
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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1) remember once the boro sells the sewer plant it can NEVER EVER get it back.
2) the sewer plant is the ONLY moneymaker in this boro
3) go to LASA's website..the MINIMUM SEWER BILL IS 81.99 FOR 3 MONTHS THE BORO'S IS 58.32 and this was months ago. this WILL cost each and every homeowner, taxpayer and resident of this boro a LOT more money BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY ALL CONTROL and the loss of a VALUABLE piece of land!
do NOT allow the boro to sell our sewer plant. it will be one of the most horrendous CURSED unfixable decisions EVER made in this boro and will haunt our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren for years and years and years.
***AT THE VERY VERY LEAST THIS QUESTION SHOULD BE ON THE BALLET. ***
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISIONS THE RESIDENTS WILL FACE THAT WILL AFFECT OUR WAY OF LIFE FOR EVER. IT' SHOULDN'T BE TAKEN LIGHTLY.
(I have NO respect for any of our elected officials ....all a bunch of puppets who can't/won't think or speak for themselves... how dare you call yourself a "true Columbian" NOT ONE WILL STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND SAY HELL NO.
WE - the working for a living, taxpaying homeowners are THE BACKBONE of this boro. it's ALL about CONTROL. always was. always will be. get smart.
The only accounts that can meet the minimum would be single person accounts or couples who are very cognizant of their water usage.
Look at other small municipalities in Pa. who just recently just upgraded their sewer plants. After the upgrade the added costs forced them all to increase their costs dramatically, some have had to double their rates. Even after all that they have to hope there's no more enviromental laws passed in the future that may force more upgrades.
So lets not get caught up in the minimum payers for the majority of the customers.
Now to the Columbia plan, as a public utility, they may take the lowest bid offered to do projects. Columbia will have to flip the $10M to run a pipeline to our area on Anchor Road that will cross over 50+ waterways that could do more harm then good. This plant in Columbia is a money maker that pays for more then four salaries of upper management. Regardless of future upgrades to the plant, you do not have an easy installment plant for ten to fifteen years like us ranging from $100 to $150 a quarter.
So please do not take this lightly, we were treated poorly with having to hire lawyers to defend this injustice.
Say no to LASA!
i also disapprove of the manner in which they try to shove the Chesapeake Bay Watershed" down our throats. What the hell? WHAT ABOUT ALL THE BUSINESSES, FACTORIES, ETC THAT RELEASE ??????? IN TO THE RIVER DAILY? WHAT ABOUT ALL THE FARMS THAT LINE THE RIVER FOR THE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM UPSTATE and all that manure???? I truly wish people would wise up BEFORE its too late. this is a prime examply of what NOT to let happen in this small boro....it will be the beginning of the end. and we all know how that will turn out. the rental properties (hundreds and hundreds of them can NOT pick up the slack and keep this boro breathing.)
Ask the former boro mgr. Now in charge of West Hemp., no wsy would they want their own sewer plant. The costs to the township & its residents would be too much. But as usual the ones running Columbia know better than them. That's why Columbis is in the condition its in.