About Town — November 8, 2026

By Columbia Spy -
Photos of Columbia, PA
Week ending 11/8/26


At the river

Flying in from Florida 

Collecting coins for Bag #22

Ready for a cookout 

A quiet morning between the cypress trees

Peeking out

A day or two earlier he was attempting a burglary. 


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Starling convention in town 

Faces about town:

Brad Chambers was at Columbia River Park Friday afternoon for an interview with WGAL.


Jesse Sweigart has copies of his printed newspaper, The Columbia Chronicle, at 436 Locust Street and elsewhere around town. 

More faces . . .









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Ready to deliver 

New window paintings by anndope at the State Theatre Vintage Emporium 

Dome in the distance 

Broken crystal at Mount Bethel 

A sign of fall

More signs of fall

Bootleg Betty

The pet cemetery at Mount Bethel 

Walkway of memorial bricks

Broken posts and signs down, at the bottom of Walnut — Was it due to a vehicle, or the wind?



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Sometimes a drain is a garden. Life finds a way, even here.

Heavy clouds . . .




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Flowers about town . . .





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Fallen 

At the National Watch & Clock Museum 











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Two at a time

Sometimes a boot is an elbow, and vice versa.

Like the sign says

Figs aplenty 

Steeples at the DAC

WRONG WAY stated very softly 

Tow truck towing a truck

Skeleton crew

On-again activity at the former drive-in

The Elks

Ride or die. He chose both



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