COLUMBIA SPY

The recent lottery winner, who bought the winning ticket at Stover's, has tentatively been identified as Charles Hauck of Marietta. (Click/tap on photo for clearer view.)

     This screenshot speaks for itself. It truly speaks for itself.

Signs such as the one shown here have been posted on North Third Street, and Locust Street below Third, notifying the public of a road improvement project. According to the borough office, the project will run overnight tonight into tomorrow morning and will resume tomorrow night into Friday. Work is also scheduled along the same route Sunday night into Monday morning.

GO HERE FOR THE REPORT: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150929006337/en/Fitch-Affirms-Saint-Anne-Retirement-Community-PA#.Vgvtp5_D_qA

GO HERE: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/nws-investigating-possible-tornado-storm-cuts-power-to-in-lancaster/article_6b406d18-675d-11e5-ac16-bbc4f71088d8.html Damage to warehouse at 499 Running Pump Road from last night's storm:

Columbia School District scores are here: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/09/area_superintendents_say_drop.html?appSession=085160082090146

Zombies, ghouls, and goblins from Field of Screams invaded Columbia's Albatwitch Festival on Saturday. Click for the story, and to see all the pics and a video.

Despite cloudy weather, Columbians turned out for Fourth Friday events, including Feet in the Street on the 500 block of Locust Street . . .  Participants chalked the street with various designs . . . . . . that began to evolve into a temporary mural. (Could this be the rebirth of surrealism?)  About those feet - there they are now. Attendees dipped their feet in tempera paint and walked along butcher paper, trailing colorful footprints along the way.  A similar procedure was used for hands.  Sweet Life provided music in the gazebo. Children adorned pumpkins with splashes of color.  Here are some of the finished products.  Several more to go. Others allowed themselves be the canvas for the artist's brush.  A little later, it became obvious that the butcher paper had been well traveled. Surfing on hay bales was a popular activity . . . . . . as was eating ice cream on them. ...

Movie under the Stars          The movie is "The Never-ending Story"                              Admission is free.

WGAL's Katelyn Smith was in town this afternoon to report on the progress of the Route 441 bypass project. ( Columbia Spy reported on the project yesterday.) According to the WGAL report, the project will be completed before the end of October.

Emergency crews responded this morning to a call about an empty kayak caught on the rocks on the Susquehanna River, above the Wrights Ferry Bridge. As of this posting no owner or occupant has reportedly been located.

If this display at Bootleg Antiques is any indication, then Halloween is right around the corner. 

Workers turned on the electricity to the traffic lights at Front and Walnut Streets this afternoon, in preparation for the lights becoming operational.

 Signposts indicating a gas pipeline were recently installed on Mill Street at the bridge over Shawnee Creek. Unfortunately, one of the signposts was pulled out and thrown into the creek.

Workers paved a section of the Route 441 bypass today, from Route 30 to Bridge Street.