After shooting incident, many mistake fireworks at river shore for gunshots
About two hours after the shooting incident at Third and Union on Saturday night, a fireworks event was held on, or near, the river shore close to the first block of Union Street. The bangs could be heard at least as far away as Ninth Street, causing many to think an active shooting event was still underway. The two clips below document a few seconds of the fireworks. No whistles or screeches can be heard as the rockets ascend and explode. After the reports, faint crackling can be heard in some instances, but was not audible a few blocks away.
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Yes it was Fourth of July and fireworks are nice.
Enough is enough though.
The borough needs to legalize the fireworks, because the law is not enforced.
If you only need a permit then next year let's all apply for one and set fireworks off all over town.
Last summer a huge deal was made about gunshots in Columbia, but that's because they were shooting at the police, not at each other in the south end of town. I bet the fireworks would have been halted abruptly if they were the targets again.
I don't think as much damage was done to property last year either.
At least the made sure Columbia had a firework show
But thanks to a concerned resident and a Columbia Police Officer my dog was returned.
Of hard to hook up when there are not any pipes to hook up to
PS. complaining about someone not posting their name while you post anonymously makes you a huge "freaking hypocrite" as you so elegantly put it.
It's not about jealousy over seeing fireworks. It is about the borough giving away riverfront property. Property that did not originally belong to the people that built cabins on it. Later it's given to the borough and rather than make public use of land they control, they "gave" it to a select few, and no, not even all of the select few are borough residents.
That's land that could have meant something to this town, instead they give that away and buy an airfield!
An opportunity lost, I'm afraid. And we're all worse off for it, lest a few dozen well-connected people.
Swoosh
They still pay a lease, just like Columbia should have been generating income from the shore cottages.
Again thanks to the Mayor and the Boro Council personal agenda!!
I will be contacting the Assessment office about this!
Now go back to your cottage and mind your own business.
"A sleepy river, with its share of decaying neighborhoods"
That right there says it all. There is not any other write up about any other community in this boom that does not paint a picture of a town you would want to visit. Would anyone want to visit any town that it's write up calls it decaying? I think not.
What needs to be done is for all the Columbia pride that this town has, come together and make changes, so that people want to visit here and maybe just maybe live here. But it will never happen with the path we are going down.
To late to turn things around.