COLUMBIA SPY

The 2019 Columbia Borough Meeting Calendar includes some important changes. Instead of the usual one council meeting per month, there will now be three: a work session and two regular meetings (as shown in yellow on the calendar above). Also, the meeting night will change from the second Monday to the first, second, and fourth Tuesdays.  Several of the monthly committee meetings will become part of the council meetings to promote better communication between the committees. Other commissions and boards will meet on the dates shown above. The first regular borough council meeting of 2019 will be on Tuesday,  January 8, at 7 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street.

This week's photos from around Columbia (Click/tap on photos for larger, clearer images.)  In training The Soldier of Light (S.O.L.) Tactical Security Team was in training around town yesterday along with security dog Lucky. Here's their contact info. Garage doors - Rated XXXXXXXXXXX  Something happened. [Submitted photo: Howard Stevens]  View from inside the police station lobby  The Good Book - good and wet  Raindrop hanging on  River Park in the fog  Burning Bridge at night Get ready for more road destruction. This time on Route 462 (the 400 block of Chestnut)  Here are the machineries of destruction, monopolizing the parking spaces since last week.  Jesus and his flock at Laurel Hill  Is it done? Work continues on the sinkhole at 3rd and Linden.  Here's a night view.  Sign down across from Royer's  Time keeper at NAW...

Due to numerous requests, petitions will once again be available for signing by citizens who have not yet signed. When: Saturday, December 29, 2018, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Where: 500 Chestnut Street The petition states: “We, the undersigned taxpayers and/or residents of the Borough of Columbia, do hereby petition and demand that borough council hold a special meeting as soon as possible to do the following: 1.) To eliminate the $800,000 that was to be allocated to the Revolving Loan Fund in the 2019 budget; 2.) To repeal the Revolving Loan Fund Ordinance 897; 3.) To repeal the tax hike for 2019, thereby reinstating the 2019 tax rate at 6.6 Mills.” [More times and locations might be offered in the near future.]

Columbia News, Views & Reviews   has the answer. Go  HERE .

 Drivers will not be able to turn from North 3rd Street onto the 300 block of Linden while work on the nearby sinkhole continues.

The call came in around 2 a.m. Wednesday The shooting happened on the 500 block of Avenue H. https://www.wgal.com/article/shooting-reported-in-columbia/25681698 UPDATE, 12/27/18 (lancasteronline): Officers have determined that an early-morning incident Wednesday that resulted in a gunshot wound on a 26-year-old woman's arm was accidental, according to Columbia Borough police.