COLUMBIA SPY

The Computer Forensic Unit of the Lancaster County District Attorney's office has been using Cellebrite for the past three years and has examined hundreds of mobile devices. The UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) is portable and can be readily used in both the laboratory and field. MORE: http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/da-s-office-gets-grant-to-extract-data-from-cell/article_5db980ec-95eb-11e4-82eb-e77b8c97f3ef.html?mode=jqm The US Supreme Court ruled  that the warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a  cell phone  during an arrest is unconstitutional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California

Columbia has been named Number One of Top 16 Small Cities in Pennsylvania. GO HERE FOR THE LISTING: http://citydescribed.com/2014/12/top-16-small-cities-in-pennsylvania/16/

Students at the Columbia High School will participate in the winter wave of Keystone Exams or make-up exams from January 7, 2015 through January 21, 2015. Students who are currently enrolled in a Semester I class for Algebra I, Biology, and/or Literature will be taking these exams.  Students who have these classes scheduled during Semester II will take their exams in the spring. Pennsylvania school code allows interested parents to review these exams prior to having their student participate with the testing.  Arrangements to view the tests must be made with the high school principal, Ms. Maura Meiser, by calling 717-684-7500 to set up an appointment.  Additional information on the the Keystone Exams can be found at the following link: Keystone Testing Information http://www.columbia.k12.pa.us/page/2850

From an editorial in this morning's edition of lancasteronline: Mayor Leo Lutz gave two reasons for vetoing Columbia Borough's hold-the-line budget for 2015: a budget process he saw as not including the public in discussions and council's failure to include the lease of a new police cruiser.  Borough Council has scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m . Wednesday at the borough building, 308 Locust St., to discuss overriding the mayor's veto.  The votes of five of the council's seven members are required to override a veto. The mayor said he couldn’t recall any public budget meetings over the last few months at which all council members were in attendance, yet “the proposed budget was changed three times.” To be fair, the mayor was not present at all council meetings, either. But, to his point, council did not, as it has in the past, make a point-by-point presentation of its budget prior to the Dec. 8 meeting at which it voted to advertise the budget and sc...

About a dozen cedar waxwings, including the one seen above, helped themselves to plentiful berries in a tree at Trinity House Apartments this afternoon. It was also a good day for a walk on the tracks. This blast from the past sits behind a shop window on the 400 block of Locust Street.

Numerous planes flew low over Columbia this afternoon, a few minutes apart. Their low altitude may have been due to heavy cloud cover for much of the afternoon.  The number of planes may have been due to the many travelers returning home after the holidays. A few of the planes are shown below:

Clifford Shupp, owner of Shupp's Barber Shop at 270 Locust Street, has twisted metal and bent nails hanging on his barber shop wall. Why? Because it's evidence of several visits by Columbia artist and strongman, Tom Hermansader, who bent the metal objects by hand during his demonstrations of strength at the shop. A profile of Tom Hermansader can found  HERE . Below are recent photos of his handiwork.