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Friday, October 23, 2020
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Shawnee Run Restoration Project nearing completion
A riparian buffer runs along a stretch of Shawnee Run and will help stabilize the bank, prevent erosion, and improve drainage.
The total cost of the project is $193,458.18, with Trinity House Apartments (Columbia Catholic Housing for the Elderly) being responsible for $114,329.09. That price includes the cost of CCHE’s request for additional abutments to accommodate a bridge to be built later, according to the May 12, 2020 Columbia Borough Council meeting minutes. The borough’s financial responsibility is $79,129.00. The construction contract was awarded to Aquatic Resource Restoration Company at the May 12 meeting.
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VIDEO: A quick trip "up the creek."
Prep work on the bank a few weeks ago
Greenway underway
The view from Mill Street
Prep work for a bridge abutment
Bridge abutment underway on the Columbia Railway side
On the Trinity House side of the creek - a frame for another abutment
Stabilizing a frame
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Sunday, October 18, 2020
About Town 10/18/2020
This week's photos of Columbia
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Cutting the road at 6th & Locust
The collection box at Columbia Presbyterian is now green to match the doors.
Workers are making progress at the Shawnee Run Restoration Project
Riparian buffers are in place, and a greenway is being installed.
Out for a walk at Columbia River Park
It's fall and time to collect leaves in your umbrella.
Commercial space for rent . . . here?
(300 block of Walnut)
When you can't take Fido to the spa, bring the spa to FIdo.
Injured sign on 462
Rainbow flag
It's always a good time for a shoulder rub.
Looks like Christmas is right around the corner.
Flags a-waving
Flags on the bridge
Golden arches
These flags are waving - and hanging.
Meanwhile, over at Universal Techs
Looks like the news is that way.
The wheels keep on turning, except when they don't.
Albatwitch mask
Headin' out
Saturday, October 17, 2020
Columbia moves toward buying McGinness Airport property
Council voted 5-2 to hire York-based marketing agency Gavin to handle messaging around the borough's potential purchase of the vacant McGinness Airport property. Council members Sharon Lintner and Howard Stevens were opposed to hiring the marketing firm. "I don't understand why we can't communicate with our public. ... Why do we have to pay someone to communicate with them?" Lintner asked.
In a phone conversation after the meeting, Borough Manager Mark Stivers said the borough is considering the purchase in order to create a small industrial park development or something similar, with various businesses on the property. When asked for environmental assessment records after the meeting, Stivers said they were not yet available to the public.
Borough solicitor Evan Gabel is working toward a purchase contract. Stivers said the property would be paid with a bond taken out in 2016 for a different project that did not occur. He said developing the property would greatly increase its taxable value, reducing the tax burden on citizens.
Stivers said Borough Council will publicly discuss more specifics of the redevelopment plan for the McGinness property at the Nov. 5 meeting.
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