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A Columbia man shot another man in a York County furniture store last week following a physical altercation between the two the day before, according to police. Officers with Springettsbury Township Police Department responded to Price Busters at 1900 Industrial Highway around 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 24, according to a criminal complaint. Officers spoke to witnesses and reviewed store surveillance, which showed Kirk Olivier, 20, of Columbia, inside the store and Michael Whitt, 23, of York, walk into the store. Olivier took a pistol from his waistband and shot at Whitt, according to the criminal complaint. Whitt ran out of the store and fled the area.  Whitt arrived at a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a criminal complaint. Police noted that Whitt did not have a firearm during the shooting. Police did not indicate the extent of Whitt's injuries. Olivier had been inside the Smoke & Chill convenience store on East Princess Street in York around 7:20 p.m. ...

[Source/photos: Sarah Gallagher] Staff at Columbia's Watch and Clock Museum received fire safety training this morning from the Columbia Borough Fire Department . Assistant Chief Kevin Keyser led the training, which included the proper handling of fire extinguishers and an explanation of numbers and symbols on the labels, as well as where to position oneself in relation to the fire. Fire personnel also set a small fire so that museum staff could practice with extinguishers. Personnel also toured the building to familiarize themselves with the interior in case of a fire call. For their efforts, the volunteers received museum passes for visiting the museum with their families.

MVP Section Four MVP: Dominic Lenhart, Columbia. ALL-STARS Section Four: Dominic Lenhart, Columbia, 211.09; Charlie Albright, Northern Lebanon, 206.85; Derick Kinser, Columbia, 204.53; Rory Bender, Columbia, 186.00; Abraham Santiago, Lancaster Catholic, 181.44. SUPERLATIVES  Section Four • Team champion: Columbia. • High average: Dominic Lenhart, 211.89. • High series: Derick Kinser, 683 (Dominic Lenhart, 694). • High game: Charlie Albright, 259 (Dominic Lenhart, 289). (Must have bowled in two-thirds of league games: 26 in One and Two; 24 in Three; 22 in Four.) https://lancasteronline.com/sports/highschool/bowling/l-l-league-2023-bowling-all-stars-list/article_908571cc-b778-11ed-b56e-ef12c4e5bd0e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

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When: Columbia Borough Council meeting, Feb. 14. What happened: A streetscape project, which would improve safety on Walnut Street by eliminating some two-way traffic patterns, moved a step closer to completion after council members voted to submit a detailed plan to a state Department of Transportation subcontractor. Background: Columbia received about $900,000 in 2020 in federal money distributed by the Lancaster County Metro Planning Organization. The borough will supply the rest of the $1.2 million cost estimated in 2019, although that construction amount probably has gone up, Borough Manager Mark Stivers said after the meeting. More info: The borough plans to eliminate two-way traffic from Third Street to Front Street, with vehicles heading toward the river. Workers also will install bike lanes that will travel in each direction, plus a median to protect those lanes. Why only one way: Allowing vehicle traffic to continue in both directions would eliminate too many on-street parkin...

 

Curtis High and Kristen High conveyed property on North Fifth Street to Glanzair Properties LLC for $235,000. The estate of Matthew Todd Ingram and Charles Tom Ingram conveyed property on a public road to Charles Tom Ingram and Abigail M. Ingram for $1.

 

 Recent photos of Columbia (Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) The Vet 21 Salute Honor Guard performed a 3-volley salute Saturday at the funeral of Charles R. "Bud" Heim at the United Methodist Church. His obituary is  HERE . [Photos and video below] ******************** Earlier in the week, firefighters responded to a fire call at 336 Cherry Street, which turned out to be a fire in a hopper and a pile of rubbish standing next to the house. Bob Warfel (in the gray shirt) was first on scene and pulled the items away from the house and put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. A third-grader named Sariah, who was reportedly the first person to see the flames, had alerted her parents, who called it in. After firefighters stabilized the scene, the codes department condemned the structure due to interior conditions. ******************** Yep, fog (Tuesday morning) ********************* Two friends at sonneteer Lloyd Mifflin's house on the 100 block of Walnut...