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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Homeowners are being attacked by low life renters. Call the police you say, seems they are not doing there job either. The troublemakers continue their harrassing ways in front of our Police but still nothing is done. Call the cheif, or mayor, Still Waiting.
Police must do their job as well! I hear over and over that it's worthless to call them. Something is definitely wrong with our department.
Codes and police are to work together was my understanding, but hey its Columbia, 2 steps forward one step back.
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Rivertowns, it's Plural. United we stand, divided we fall.
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