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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I have nothing against the use of the gym for basketball, but I hope that group gives a donation to offset the use of the gym.
As an organizer and former player of the Men's Sunday Morning Basketball program at CHS, I would like to explain how the school does benefit from this. The players contribute money to play each week which was kept by me and was given to any organization that needed funds for extracurricular activities at the high school. Having kept records I can remember donating well over &7,000.00 in just one year. This has been going on the entire time the program has been in operation.