Columbia Borough will make agendas available on-line before council meetings

After recent news articles reported that information was not being provided to the public in a timely manner, the borough began posting draft and final meeting agendas on its website.
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Columbia and Elanco school board consider a joint superintendent for next year

Columbia’s Acting Superintendent Kenneth Klawitter on Monday night proposed that the board share a district leader with Elanco in the 2016-17 school year.

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Columbia to get school resource officer

At a joint meeting Monday night, the Columbia Borough School Board and Columbia Borough Council voted unanimously to place a school resource officer in Columbia schools, beginning with the 2016-17 school year.

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Fleetwood Girl Scouts take on Turkey Hill Experience

Fleetwood Girl Scout Brownie Troop 1793 recently held a "SHE & ME" event and traveled to the Turkey Hill Experience in Columbia, Pennsylvania.
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Columbia to get trolley on trial basis

Columbia's getting a trolley. Or more precisely, it's renting a trolley service on a trial basis.  Columbia Borough Council approved the move at its April 11 meeting after a presentation by Daisy Pagan, who is championing the project through the Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce. The borough is fronting $30,600 for the trolley for a one-year tryout during tourist season. Any revenue generated from the operation - conservatively estimated at $20,500 - will be returned to borough coffers. The amount is based on a charge of two dollars per rider and income from advertising on the side of the trolley.

Rivertowne Trolley Company will provide the service with a 24-seat trolley that was recently restored. Service will run from Memorial Day weekend (5/26/16) through Labor Day weekend (9/2/16), 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and as needed for special events, and extended for Fourth Fridays. Guests might ride free if the budget allows.

The Turkey Hill Experience has agreed to contribute signage, parking attendants at lots, and an informational piece to be distributed to all guests.

The tentative trolley route is shown in red below:

Man gets stuck waist-deep in mud, crews pull him out

Traffic on a stretch of Route 441 was diverted for about an hour this afternoon when emergency crews responded to an environmental rescue call for a man stuck in the mud at Chiques Rock County Park. Personnel found the man in mud up to his waist in the eastern part of the park between Route 441 and Old Chiques Hill Road. Crews had to remove some of the mud before pulling him out. Afterward, the man appeared unhurt at the scene, except for a possible case of hurt pride.

Fire police diverted northbound traffic on Route 441 right onto Klinesville Road. Southbound traffic was detoured onto Old Chiques Hill Road.

Painter Frank Morgan to appear at Fourth Friday print signing at SCCA

Painter Frank Morgan will do a print signing at the SCCA Friday, April 22, 5-9 p.m., and will have a variety high-quality reproduction prints available to the public at very reasonable prices.

Morgan attended Harvard University where he studied drawing and art history while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in political science. After graduating in 1973, he worked as an architectural draftsman for the Architects’ Design Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts and painted in his spare time.

During the 1990s, he produced a series of prints of Washington, D.C. scenes which were sold widely in the Washington area, and in 2000 he was commissioned to paint a unique series of views of the U.S. Capitol for the Congressional Holiday Ornament program, a series still in use at the Capitol today. He also worked as an architectural designer and consultant for private clients in the Washington area.

Frank Morgan’s home and studio are now in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania where he now devotes his time to historic and religious painting and architectural designing. He can be contacted at studioguild1@verizon.net.