Monday, September 14, 2015

Man gets extra 10-20 years for attack

A 24-year-old Columbia man, sentenced in August to up to 75 years in prison for a vicious attack on a city woman, had an extra 10 to 20 years added to his sentence Monday.
MORE HERE

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Police search for missing 15-year-old girl from Columbia | lancasteronline.com




A 15-year-old girl from Columbia has been missing since Friday night, according to police.
Columbia Borough police are searching for Hannah Fleckenstein, 15, who was reported missing by her parents at 12:14 p.m Saturday.
Hannah was last seen at 11:30 p.m. Friday in her home at 1020 Chestnut Street. She may be in Columbia or Millersville, police said.
Hannah's mom, Christina Fleckenstein, said her daughter is a freshman at Lancaster Mennonite High School.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Columbia Borough Police Department at 684-7735.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

FDNY Battalion Chief Helmet protected two firefighters on 9/11

      (Columbia Spy photo taken in 2012 at 9/11 Memorial Museum, NYC)

From the exhibit shown above:
"On the morning of September 11, 2001, Battalion Chief Brian O'Flaherty witnessed the hijacked Flight 175 strike the South Tower of the World Trade Center from his post in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Chief O'Flaherty responded to a command center inside the Marriott Hotel (3 WTC), a strategic location between the two towers. When the South Tower collapsed, showering steel and other debris onto the hotel, O'Flaherty was wounded. He gave his battered helmet to Battalion Chief Edward Henry, who had lost his own helmet during the chaos. Henry left the lobby, intent on aiding those in distress, while O'Flaherty remained inside to provide assistance to the injured. Both men survived, despite injuries, a fact that Chief O'Flaherty attributes in part to the helmet that protected them both."

Wright's Ferry Mansion's newly acquired treasure

Wright’s Ferry Mansion has recently acquired a four-poster bed from the Queen Anne period that takes its place among the mansion’s already impressive collection of Queen Anne and William and Mary-era furnishings.
MORE: