Draft Agenda for July 11, 2016 Columbia Borough Council Meeting
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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What do I win? I hope it is higher taxes, more slumlords and art galleries that will make me feel good.
1) Let Art Save All
2) Lower All Standards Around
3) Local Area Spending Authority
When this money runs out, the eight year run of no tax increases will end.
So where is this change?
PS. How dare we talk s---? Sorry, didn't know there was a ban on free thought in this town. But the way it is going - I wouldn't be surprised.
Speculate, Whine, Speculate... How's about coming to the table with solutions instead of gripes and speculations! Been to a few Council Meetings myself and there is a lot of open seats for the public to come and sit in... Come to meetings, sign the book to speak and get heard. Change can only happen if it is first addressed. Then there has to be follow through by "ALL".
As for who will be picked for positions on Council, those predicted the two "lock ins" you were only 1/2 right so there is no shoe in on positions. You have to apply and give your best to get on not come off 1/2 cocked as most do on this blog about things...
As for "YOUR" Historic Columbia Market House, The market is growing if you didn't know and most of you don't because you don't come in and support it. With more traffic attracts more stand holders, the more stand holders there is the more and variety of products are offered... So if Market fails is not because of a select few it's because of everyone not doing there part. I shop there every week as do so many others do...
So you want change? Don't wait for someone to do it for you... Get up and start applying the creative juice to make the town as a whole much, much better!
My $0.02 a Columbia Transplant Taxpayer
The Market House is a failure. There is no support for it. The downtown is dead (like most post-industrial towns). All the commenting on blogs is not going to change that. I would rather see the building adaptively reused for a place to park the police vehicles. Then it would at least have a real purpose.