Thursday, July 3, 2014

State funding increases do little to help cash-strapped Columbia schools

The newly passed state budget offers the high-poverty Columbia schools a little extra cash, but the amount is less than what district leaders were counting on.

The smaller increase " will continue to squeeze Columbia financially," said Laura Cowburn, the district's business manager.

MORE:
http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/state-funding-increases-do-little-to-help-cash-strapped-columbia/article_43076d5e-0243-11e4-ad62-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Vehicle Accident - Class I


At 3:32 p.m. this afternoon, emergency personnel responded to a vehicle accident involving a car and a motorcycle on the 400 block of Locust Street.  The motorcycle rider apparently suffered minor injuries.

The motorcycle rider (far left) gets a hand - or several - with his bike.

Pointing out details of the collision

The temporarily grounded bike . . .

was moved out of the street by a Columbia Borough Police officer.

Columbia officials talk fire radios, company consolidation

Discussion about the number of radios Columbia borough needs for their fire departments grew heated on June 23, when members of Columbia Consolidated Fire Department aired their opinions about both the necessary radio purchase and the proposed consolidation of the fire departments.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

What now? Solutions needed for Columbia schools. Here are some options.

GO HERE:
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/what-now-solutions-needed-for-columbia-schools-here-are-some/article_a6084e44-fca0-11e3-bf37-0017a43b2370.html

Failing in slow motion: A community's helping hands

More on Columbia's condition:

http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/failing-in-slow-motion-a-community-s-helping-hands/article_419dfa5a-fc94-11e3-a839-0017a43b2370.html?mode=jqm

What I saw recently

Some shots from around town recently . . .

A peek inside the mausoleum at Mount Bethel Cemetery

A miniature crucifix at the port hole

One ancient myth says that when a person dies, a crow carries the soul to heaven.


 On Friday (June 27), a conservation officer kept watch on the river from a vantage point at River Park.

 Four Waterways Conservation vehicles were parked there, two with empty boat trailers.
One assumes the officers were out patrolling the river.

 The two vehicles with trailers were parked in the appropriate parking spaces.

 But wait, what's this - a violation?

 Meanwhile, a stray cat checked out a dobsonfly.

 On the 100 block of Locust - a sign of Columbia's more prosperous past.

Skeletal frame of the River Park center



Artists at work on Saturday morning (June 28) . . .







 Seen in Wrightsville yesterday.  What is it?

 May as well park on the sidewalk, especially since there are at least half a dozen empty parking spaces available.

Bikers