COLUMBIA SPY

Pour Mans Brewing , 15 Third St., Columbia, Feb. 22. Pass . Food facility has an employee that has taken food safety training program; however, the food safety program was not an ANSI/CFP-accredited certified food manager program. Andy's Market Inc ., 310 11th St., Columbia, complaint, Feb. 21. Pass . No violations.

Columbia Middle School sixth-grader Ayisha Beausejour won a statewide essay contest for Black History Month. Ayisha's essay highlighting the legacy of Black leaders such as Ruby Bridges and Martin Luther King Jr. was selected from five submissions across the state. She won a certificate of achievement for the accomplishment. Black History Month means "celebrating all the great things Black people have done and learning what they have gone through," Ayisha wrote in her essay. Ayisha's teacher, Amy Wright, encouraged her and her peers to participate in the contest. "Ayisha's essay is a testament to her hard work and passion for learning," Wright said. "She has a unique ability to connect the past to the present, while her words remind us why Black History Month is so important." MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-middle-school-sixth-grader-wins-statewide-black-history-month-essay-contest/article_4267fbe0-f51f-11ef-9384-5b020859...

Lutz: “Sell ‘em a blank slate. Put the shingle out, and sell it." [Columbia Spy file photo] The fate of the former McGinness airport property remains “up in the air.” Columbia Borough Council still doesn't have a definite plan for the site, although several options are on the table. Council even discussed leaving the property a “blank slate” for potential developers, but one thing's almost certain: The drones aren't coming. DR1, the drone company that council had hoped would anchor the property didn't receive the grant it was seeking. The grant, potentially worth millions, was awarded elsewhere, according to borough engineer Derek Rinaldo. That failure leaves the door open to other possibilities, including allowing manufacturers and distributors to locate there. Before anything happens, however, the ground must be remediated to remove any contamination or objects buried beneath the surface. On Tuesday, Jason Best of ELA Group and Rinaldo provided council with upda...

JOHN DUFFY | FOR LNP | LANCASTERONLINE MESA is not receiving reimbursements from nonmember municipalities when it responds to ambulance calls. These include Mount Joy and Columbia boroughs, as well as Rapho and West Hempfield townships — areas that chose not to participate in the authority and have benefited from an excess of MESA service calls. In past discussions, elected officials in MESA member municipalities has called the imbalance a theft of services. At a Jan. 29 meeting of northwest county elected officials, it was agreed that letters from member municipalities was a logical next step. Invoices from MESA and face-to-face meetings have yielded no results. "Both of these are soft. We need to go harder," said Elizabethtown Mayor Chuck Mummert about the two versions of the draft letter. Council member Andrew Schoenberger said the members should offer steps for the nonmember municipalities to either pay MESA back or join the authority, otherwise they're going to conti...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Monday that $2.1 billion in federal funding to Pennsylvania has been restored. It comes less than two weeks after the governor filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to challenge a freeze of the federal funding. At the time, state agencies were unable to access $1.2 billion in federal funding, while an additional $900 million was under review. MORE: https://www.wgal.com/article/gov-josh-shapiro-says-federal-funds-to-pennsylvania-have-been-unfrozen/63906559  

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Valley View Capital LLC conveyed 436 N. Fourth St. to Gebremariam Menen Kidane for $215,000.

The Lancaster County Fire Chiefs Association coordinated a procession to transport fallen West York Borough police officer Andrew Duarte to Lehigh Valley. The procession departed from the York County Coroner's Office at approximately 7 a.m. Monday, traveling eastbound on Route 30 before heading north on Route 222. Columbia Borough Police officers paid their respects with a salute as the procession passed, and Columbia Borough Firefighters positioned themselves with apparatus on the Major General Edward C. Shannon Memorial Bridge. Duarte, who had recently turned 30, served as a police officer for more than six years before losing his life in the UPMC Memorial Hospital shooting.  

 This week's photos of Columbia Click on photos to see larger, sharper images.   Coin collectors (They collect the coins from the parking meters.) The top one is different.  Something happened to the window at Union Station.  Officers on duty Two-seater Meeting at Mount Bethel Holding the light What's the point? At Nouveau Tea, 3rd & Maple One of several smoke shops around town There's another holiday just around the corner.  Saturday evening clouds Datestone at Columbia Church of God Ornaments on historic grave markers A giant branch broke off of this tree in Locust Street Park and was promptly removed. Cross at the river Frosty morning  Scenic Avenue G  Do not look for welcome here. Flags waving The U.S Flag is starting to fray (like the country).   There were snow squalls over the past week.  Fortunately, not much snow was left behind. The water company is having a roof replaced.  But the mayor said there are only two officer...

Knights of Columbus Home Association , 400 Maple St., Columbia, Feb. 13. Pass . No violations. Mr. Joe's Steakhouse , 348 Perry St., Columbia, Feb. 11. Pass . Observed raw shell eggs stored above milk in the reach-in cooler. Employee personal items, echinacea and a type of drops, observed stored in the reach-in cooler above food rather than stored on the bottom and segregated. Parma Pizza & Grill , 256 Market St., Elizabethtown, opening, Feb. 11. Pass . Raw ground beef was stored above ready-to-eat products in the bain-marie; corrected. Observed a moderate amount of static dust on circulating fan at three-compartment sink. Women's toilet room is not provided with a covered waste receptacle for sanitary napkins. Lights are not shielded or shatterproof over the grill area. A working container of caustic oven cleaner was stored above or on the same shelf with food equipment in the main production area. Chef Lex , 404 Cherry St., Columbia, opening, Feb. 10. Pass . No violations...

  Columbia taxpayers are about to get a break on their taxes. The Columbia Borough School District Board of Directors voted Thursday night to decrease the district's property tax rate by .4 mills. The measure passed unanimously among the seven directors present. The decrease will reduce the current millage from 26.46 to 26.06 mills. Borough property owners will save approximately $40 per $100,000 of assessed property value. The tax reduction was made possible by a $179,600 block grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Ready to Learn Block Grant Tax Equity Supplement. The funds cannot be used until the 2025-26 fiscal year. (The 2024-25 fiscal year marked the fifth year in a row without a district tax increase.) The board had discussed five available options for using the grant before choosing Option 1: 1) Mitigating or preventing an increase in the millage rate of real estate property taxes levied by the school district 2) Supplementing the amount calculated by the school ...

 

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