What I saw recently

Some photos from around town over the past week . . . 

 200 block of Locust

 Pillars at the River Park project

 Two trains side-by-side on parallel sets of tracks

 A sign of winter

 Ready for the alien autopsy

 Denizen of the darkness

 Fading in the fog

 Looking at the Wrightsville side

 Copper-topped clock tower at town hall

 The leak continues at the Columbia Plaza parking lot.

 Water has been leaking here for several years.  Could it lead to a sinkhole?

Nature's designs . . .

Signs of life?

A few new business signs have cropped up recently . . . 

 At the former United Telephone Company building on the first block of

North 3rd

 417 Locust Street

Route 462, near Royer's

The Knockout Game: Coming to a town near you?

http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/928347_Knock-out-game--Disturbing--random-assaults-under-scrutiny-from-Lancaster-County-prosecutor--lawmaker.html

Cellphone surveillance: A new tool in police arsenal

Is it happening here?

The swelling ability by even small-town police departments to easily and quickly obtain large amounts of cellphone data raises questions about the erosion of people's privacy as well as their Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20131208/NEWS/312080091/Cellphone-surveillance-new-tool-police-arsenal

How cold is it?

Food boxes to be delivered

On Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21, at 9 a.m., the Lions Club members, Sunsnappers, and other community volunteers will meet at Susquehanna Fire and Rescue Company, located at 10th and Manor streets, Columbia, to prep the boxes and set things up so that delivery will run smoothly. On Sunday, Dec. 22, beginning at 9 a.m., the club members will gather to deliver the boxes. The public is welcome to help on any or all of the dates.

MORE HERE:
http://news.engleonline.com/AdDesk/Htmlfiles/Readers/article.epc?id=94924

Meanwhile in another Columbia . . .

Columbia, South Carolina Approves Plan To Exile Its Homeless.

Whatever happened to  "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"?

By comparison, our sleepy, little hamlet doesn't look so bad.

MORE HERE:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/20/2496741/columbia-criminalize-homeless/