COLUMBIA SPY

Fight involving baseball bats reported in Columbia, woman reportedly suffers traumatic injury

Police were responding to reports of a fight involving baseball bats and a traumatic head injury shortly after 9 p.m. in Columbia Borough.

According to dispatches on Lancaster County-wide Communications, the fight involving bats took place at or near 134 S. Third St., close to Avenue J in the borough.

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Police: Student, 18, arrested after threatening shooting at Manheim-area school

An Intermediate Unit 13 student on Wednesday threatened to stab a teacher, bring a bomb and gun to school and shoot people, police said.

Austin Tyler Osborne, 18, of Bethel Street, Columbia, made the verbal threats at the IU 13 school at 8 Fairland Road in Penn Township on Wednesday, Northern Lancaster County Regional police said.

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One in custody

An officer questioned several youths in front of CVS Pharmacy this afternoon. One was taken into custody for possible involvement in a spray-painting incident.

Ready for the parade

500 block of Locust this afternoon

4th & Locust

St. Peter Apartments

Dates announced for Rte 441 bypass tour, ribbon-cutting

The public will be permitted to walk the Route 441 bypass on Sunday, November 1, from 1 to 3 p.m.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Monday, November 2, at 9 a.m., after which the road will officially open at 10 a.m.

Columbia Borough studying future of police department

Columbia Borough is beginning a study about consolidating police forces, just as the issue is popping up in more and more communities across the region.

The state Department of Community and Economic Development will run the study at no cost to the borough.

It will look at the department's operations - call volume, staffing and costs - but it will also evaluate whether some type of merger or consolidation with neighboring communities makes sense.

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