COLUMBIA SPY

JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY  Problem #1: Mosquitoes at the quarry   A borough resident is raising concerns about standing water at the former McGinness property, warning that the site's quarry may be breeding mosquitoes that are affecting nearby homes and businesses. Tom Steiner brought the issue before Columbia Borough Council on Tuesday, saying he had spoken beforehand with Derek Rinaldo, borough engineer, and Heather Zink, council vice president. Steiner said that over the past three to four years he has seen a noticeable increase in mosquitoes near his home, despite having no standing water on his property. He noted that he hired a pest control service to spray his yard and has resorted to running fans on his deck and front porch to keep the insects away. Steiner, who said he has years of firsthand experience with the quarry from swimming there, pointed out the west end of the quarry as a potential problem area. He described that section as largely untouched, overgrown with...

[Photos: Lape Brothers Photography] A woods fire erupted Thursday afternoon near the Breezy View Overlook at Chickies Rock County Park in Lancaster County, prompting a significant response from area fire companies. The blaze was reported shortly after 1 p.m. in the wooded area around the park. 

A digitized edition of the front page of The Columbia Spy from April 16, 1853 reveals the preoccupations, commerce, and moral culture of mid-19th century small-town America. A front page of The Columbia Spy , a weekly family newspaper from Columbia, Pennsylvania, dated exactly 173 years ago today, is shown above. Printed by Brown & Greene and devoted to "Literature, Science, Morality, Education, and General Intelligence," the issue paints a vivid portrait of life several years before the Civil War. Patent Medicines Dominate the Ads Much of the paper's commercial space is given over to patent medicine advertisements, reflecting a booming industry that preceded modern pharmaceutical regulation. Holloway's Pills are promoted through testimonial letters claiming cures for disordered livers, rheumatic fever, dropsy, and gout. Alongside them, Dr. Houghton's Pepsin — billed as "Another Scientific Wonder" — promises relief from indigestion and dyspepsia, wit...

A York County man died in a motorcycle crash Saturday in Columbia Borough, according to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office.  Amos Stoltzfus, 78, of Wrightsville, was operating a trike-style motorcycle when he crashed near the intersection of Lancaster Avenue and South 12th Street around 6:15 a.m. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, the coroner’s office said.  Police found Stoltzfus on a sidewalk where he was treated by emergency medical personnel before being taken to Lancaster General Hospital where he died of his injuries.  The coroner’s office ruled the cause of death as multiple blunt force trauma and the manner of death as accidental. https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/coroner-identifies-man-killed-in-columbia-motorcycle-crash/article_4edde93d-75bd-415f-bfbb-88820c09213e.html