COLUMBIA SPY

If this display at Bootleg Antiques is any indication, then Halloween is right around the corner. 

Workers turned on the electricity to the traffic lights at Front and Walnut Streets this afternoon, in preparation for the lights becoming operational.

 Signposts indicating a gas pipeline were recently installed on Mill Street at the bridge over Shawnee Creek. Unfortunately, one of the signposts was pulled out and thrown into the creek.

Workers paved a section of the Route 441 bypass today, from Route 30 to Bridge Street.

Tyrick D. Walker, 34, is serving a life sentence for beating, strangling and drowning 41-year-old Mark McLaughlin on April 4, 2011, at a makeshift homeless camp by the river in West Hempfield Township. On Monday,  his bid for a new trial  was rejected by the state Superior Court, according to a release Wednesday  by the Lancaster County District Attorney's office . MORE: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/homeless-killer-s-appeal-rejected-life-sentence-stands-for-riverside/article_d76b274a-6211-11e5-b400-27485332d9f5.html

Columbia Borough had been considering a digester to produce electricity from manure from local farmers and food waste from various sources. "They were looking it pretty closely," Zimmerman says. "When the rulemaking came about, they shelved it." Borough Manager Ron Miller said officials were indeed worried about the uncertain Public Utility Commission limits. But he said lack of funding also played a role in not moving forward with the project. MORE: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/bill-would-protect-local-farmers-with-methane-digesters-from-limits/article_62f6a94a-6165-11e5-9226-4b489d6279c4.html