COLUMBIA SPY

It's not your TV. It's not your laptop. It's Comcast. The company, one of the nation's largest operators of cable TV and residential internet services, said Friday afternoon it is dealing with a widespread outage. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/comcast-severed-cable-may-be-cause-of-nationwide-internet-tv/article_b624f658-7bca-11e8-85f4-578e6f1529b6.html

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 Damaged fence post and two bent sections of fence along Heritage Drive -  (Note the scrape marks on the right section.) Another view *****  More activity at Colonial Metals: A worker behind the fence Open garage door

 Columbia Spy spotted these two gentlemen on Linden Street this morning. They entered the Colonial Metals building.   Their vehicle carried an Ohio license plate.  Minutes later, they left the building, accompanied by the man in the black tee shirt, and walked towards the employee parking lot. The Spy  approached and asked if the company was going to make a statement. One of the men (shown above in the middle) said he doesn't work for the company. They crossed the parking lot and entered the building near Third and Maple.

The former firehouse at 27-29 N. 4th Street After months of apparent dormancy, a firehouse restaurant/brew pub project is in the offing for Columbia after all. Columbia Spy has obtained information indicating that plans for a pizza restaurant/brew pub are currently underway for the former Keystone Firehouse at 27-29 North Fourth Street. Tentatively named “The 1898 Firehouse,” the 3,000 square-foot establishment will feature a dining area with 11 tables, a pizza station with a pizza oven and 6-seat counter, and a brewing area with 8-seat bar. At its June meeting, Columbia's Historical Architectural Review Board approved alterations to the building for changes to the existing garage door. Restaurant signage was also discussed. The lease agreement for the property is with Toss Dough LLC, a Marietta-based limited-liability company organized last year by Stacey Vonstein. Shawn and Lisa Loucks are listed as owners. According to real estate company Bennett Williams, the 189...

The tracts — two in Columbia and four in Lancaster city — were recently designated as qualified opportunity zones. The designation allows incentives for investors to develop assets in economically distressed communities by providing cuts on their capital gains tax after the assets are owned for a certain number of years. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-lancaster-city-tracts-designated-as-qualified-opportunity-zones/article_fe5fbf10-74b9-11e8-9e5f-8f38d171b2e6.html

This week's photos from around Columbia... (Tap/click on each photo for a larger, sharper image.)  Officer Holly Oster on Sunday morning bike patrol...  ...with a new, fully equipped bike.  And fully licensed -  Bike licenses can be obtained at the police station for a nominal charge.  Time for a little reading  Wiping the meters...  Wait...what? Wiping the meters?! New sheriff in town - well, a sheriff anyway  The K-9 car  Two out of three of these need to go. Is anyone keeping track of our signage? Speaking of signage, here's the Stump Avenue sign, possibly made from...a stump. What else?  Three churches  Parking project proceeds  Progress progresses at 208-210 Locust Dungin' out  At K&A Event Planning & Party Rental LLC on the first block of North Fourth  Here's a parking enforcement officer, with a No Parkin...