Hazardous sidewalk on Locust repaired
The hazardous sections of sidewalk on the 100 block of Locust Street that Columbia Spy reported on HERE were recently repaired. The sidewalk is now passable.
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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speaking of tax dollars....have you been to Boro office? wth are they doing now? Spending more and more of our hardearned taxpayer money. MUST remove Murphy & Berntheizel. They truly act like money grows on trees. really.and what about the rest of council...where are they? they also justify all this spending???