COLUMBIA SPY

Lancaster County emergency reports of drug overdose Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman announced Monday the launch of an online Lancaster County-wide mapping of emergency reports of drug overdose. The map consists of Lancaster County-Wide Communications data, specifically emergency dispatches/responses to reported overdose incidents, from January 1, 2014 to November 1, 2016. It can be accessed  HERE . The map is presented as an awareness and prevention tool in the ongoing battle against the national heroin/opioid epidemic. The District Attorney’s Office has found through community meetings and forums that the county, as a whole, does not yet realize the epidemic has afflicted every town, borough, and region. The map provides visual evidence that drug abuse has impacted, almost literally, every neighborhood in Lancaster County. The incident markings on the map are not categorized by incident severity or type of drug involved in the reported overdose incident. Ov...

Planning Commission meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 21 at Borough Hall, 308 Locust Street.

Columbia Borough School Board Meeting November 17, 2016: Absent:   Superintendent Dr. Robert Hollister (due to PASA Board of Governors meeting in Harrisburg), President Cole Knighton (but "present" via phone for the first part of the meeting), Director Leo Lutz Jr., and Director Iris Garrido. Present in addition to board directors were ELANCO Business Manager Keith Ramsey, Board Secretary Deb Smith and Nathan Saxton (legal counsel). Ramsey is currently taking over business manager duties for Columbia School District, since the board recently voted to terminate the employment of Business Manager Amy Light, as Columbia Spy reported  HERE . Students of the month were honored during the first part of the meeting. After a brief intermission following the student recognition ceremony, the meeting resumed at about 7:50 p.m. Vice President Kathy Hohenadel led the proceedings. President Cole Knighton voted on items via phone until about 35 minutes into the sessio...

This is how Republicans are "helping" the working class, and Trump's not even in office yet. http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/politics/2016/11/17/senate-dismisses-without-funding-pa-jobless-centers/94031622/

An informed source tells the Spy that the Municipal Authority meeting scheduled for 4:30 p.m. today (Thursday) has been cancelled.