Conoy Township pro-gun signs vandalized, leaders hope to profit

A fundraising idea for Columbia?

After new pro-gun signs were vandalized in Conoy Township, leaders hope to sell similar ones to benefit local nonprofits.

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Here's a link to a video interview that says it all:
http://www.nranews.com/home/video/cam-and-company-2015-stephen-mohr-welcoming-good-people-to-town/list/featured-videos

Extreme tax hikes not expected outside city school district

"We have no place to go to tax anybody anymore. ... The little bit more that we would get wouldn't bail us out," said Laura Cowburn, business manager for Columbia Borough School District.

Her district has the same Act 1 index as the city district: 2.8 percent. That's the highest index in the county.

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Q&A: Generations of tasty treats made one fasnacht at a time

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Columbia Borough Council OKs sale of sewer system to LASA

Columbia Borough Council voted 5-2 Feb. 9 to approve a resolution for the sale of itswastewater collection system to the Lancaster Area Sewer Authority for $8.6 million.

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Aftermath of bus incident

Columbia Borough Police Officers Austin Miller and Bryan Keyser talk to a woman who had been asked to leave an RRTA bus near Fourth and Chestnut at about 3:50 p.m. on February 9, 2015. It appeared as though Officer Miller escorted her from the bus. Apparently, the woman was upset about having had to wait a long time for the bus to pick her up at Ninth and Locust. (It's difficult to hear the conversation due to traffic noise; I was standing on the other side of the highway.)

Columbia foursome jailed for burglary, baseball-bat beating of 2 women

Four Columbia residents each received lengthy prison terms for breaking into a home in 2013 and beating two women with baseball bats.

Three men and a woman were charged with entering the Columbia home on Nov. 5, 2013, and beating the female occupants after three men inside fled, according to testimony.

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Out for a Sunday drive

An Amish buggy with five passengers drove through Columbia this afternoon, along Route 441, and  continued up through Chiques.