COLUMBIA SPY

This week's photos of Columbia   Click on photos to see larger, sharper images.  JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY   Columbia Borough police were aided by other departments for a reported manhunt on Friday. ***************** Columbia — 300 years Accompanied by a 1948 American LaFrance fire truck, a newly restored 1917 LaFrance was out for a test drive Friday (5/29/26) morning along the parade route for the upcoming fireman's parade scheduled for Saturday, June 6th. Two icons: A 109-year-old fire truck and the historic Wright's Ferry Mansion  Chugging up Locust Street  ***************** The river was a foot above normal on Thursday, but it seemed higher.  ***************** Someone forgot their helmet. It probably belongs to a worker at the Walnut Street project . . . This tree will be removed. So will these. X marks the spot — or at least the mulch. New sidewalk coming right up How will this affect our MS4 rating? ***************** More Tollbooth renovations ...

The Columbia Courier : Dispatches from Your Most Devoted Observer Dearest Gentle Reader , Your correspondent takes up her quill with no small measure of delight — indeed, with a positively indecorous degree of satisfaction — to report upon the most extraordinary evening lately witnessed in Columbia Borough. What a spectacle it was, Dear Reader. What a magnificent, standing-room-only, barely-contained-within-its-walls spectacle! Last Tuesday, the citizens descended upon the fire hall in such numbers as to suggest either a profound civic awakening or a very poorly attended alternative event that evening.  The people came. They filled every seat and lined every wall. They spoke. And when the final vote was tallied — a unanimous rejection of the $6.35 million bid from Saadia Holdings LLC for the former McGinness Airport property — the triumph, however it arrived, belonged first and foremost to the people. You, Dearest Reader, deserve the fullest measure of praise for your attention to...

Taylor Enterline  Ally Reitzel  Brad Chambers  Dennis Wolpert  A look at the crowd Rita Seibel  Kyle Ricker  Robert Misciagna Jean-Pierre Seibel  Callie Thompson 

Brad Chambers: "The McGinness property should not have been purchased by our council in the first place." JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY Columbia Borough Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to reject a $6.35 million bid for the former McGinness Airport property, in a four-and-a-half hour meeting that drew a standing-room-only crowd. The sole bid came from Saadia Holdings LLC, a New York-based company that manages retail properties and owns a large distribution center in Lancaster County. Residents widely believed the 41-acre site on Manor Street, currently known as the McGinness Innovation Park, was being eyed for AI data center development. Ally Reitzel: "How could this issue . . . have any positivity towards our housing market?" More than 300 residents packed the Columbia Borough Fire Hall, which had replaced the municipal building as the meeting venue in anticipation of heavy attendance. At one point, the crowd had swelled to between 500 and 600 attendees, some o...

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Agenda for the May 26, 2026 Columbia Borough Council meeting (The meeting packet is  HERE .) JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY  Columbia Borough Council will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, May 26, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Please note the change of venue: The meeting will be held at the Columbia Borough Fire Hall, 726 Manor Street, due to larger than average attendance expected.  Two significant land use and development items are on the agenda for the meeting: Consider approval of text amendment to add Data Centers to zoning (Item 9c) Council will consider approving an amendment to the borough's zoning ordinance that will lay out how data centers must be developed and operated. Consider awarding the bid for the McGinness Innovation Park property to Saadia Holdings LLC for $6.35 M (Item 10b) Also on the agenda is the proposed award of the bid for the former McGinness airport property to Saadia Holdings LLC for $6.35 million. There is still a question of whether the meeting will be liv...

Clyde Investments LLC conveyed 230 Lawrence St. to LP Lamarc for $150,000. Sanders Dorothy Ellen conveyed 1013 Locust St. to Wile Ethan, Smith Mylee for $280,000. Reed Kyle A, Rendler Morgan R, Reed Morgan R. conveyed 122 N. Eighth St. to AJ Home Solutions LLC for $140,000. Noll J. Richard, Noll Letitia E. conveyed 1115 Lancaster Ave. to 3G Locust Realty LLC for $1,494,300.

Photos: Joe Lintner