COLUMBIA SPY

Columbia Fire Chief Scott Ryno details findings about a potentially unstable building at 208-210 Locust Street.  Earlier in the day, some residents expressed concerns about the safety of the structure. Emergency personnel responded at about 4:30 this afternoon to investigate the building. The 200 block of Locust was shut down for several hours as a collapse team, structural engineers, and fire personnel examined the structure.

JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY  208-210 Locust Street was investigated this afternoon for concerns about the building's structural integrity.

On Friday, a large storage tank was transported from Elizabethtown to York and briefly passed through Columbia when it entered the Wrights Ferry (Route 30) Bridge. Columbia Spy caught up with the tank in York County. The backstory is here: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/steel-tanker-traveling-from-elizabethtown-to-york-to-cause-road/article_279201fc-0fb6-11e5-9461-ab51df328965.html Photo by Rodie Cox A workman drove ahead to lift utility wires to allow the tank to pass.

JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY  The property at 208-210 Locust Street is showing signs of structural damage, especially under the second row of windows from the top.  This morning, workers appeared to be examining the damage (second photo below), and this afternoon a STOP WORK order appeared on the window of the property.  Friday afternoon  Saturday morning Saturday afternoon

Local officials learned in a conference call with state Department of Environmental Protection that contaminants from a massive fire Monday at an Adams County chemical company could reach the borough's water-intake pumps Saturday morning, prompting members of the Wrightsville Borough Municipal Authority to take pre-emptive action. MORE: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_28297048/wrightsville-water-officials-bracing-chemical-fire-contaminants As of about 5 a.m. today, there was no mention of the issue on the Columbia Water Company's website: This morning, WGAL-TV reported that Columbia is one of the municipalities notified.

A native of Columbia, Chester Wittell was a brilliant, eccentric, self-absorbed man. He composed hundreds of songs and symphonies and thousands of poems.  MORE; http://m.lancasteronline.com/opinion/the-scribbler-columbia-native-s-poem-portrays-conestoga-indian-as/article_b328f1e6-0df7-11e5-bb27-8f1eb3ec4d20.html?mode=jqm

On Friday morning, a 17 foot tall by 70 foot wide, steel tank will be making its way through the western part of Lancaster County and down into York County, causing delays on the roadways. MORE: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/steel-tanker-traveling-from-elizabethtown-to-york-to-cause-road/article_279201fc-0fb6-11e5-9461-ab51df328965.html