Two vacancies on borough council

Bridge lights to be turned off due to mayflies

Final Agenda Columbia Borough Council Meeting June 13, 2016

It was announced at the beginning of the meeting that Items II.10.i. and II.16.a. were removed from the agenda.

What kind of country do we want?

Now's the time to think about what kind of country we want. 

With that in mind, here's some food for thought from around the web:

Columbia holds community conversation on heroin

Last Tuesday, June 7, local leaders and others held a community discussion at Columbia Jr./Sr. High School to address the heroin epidemic in the area. Columbia Mayor Leo Lutz and Columbia Borough Police Chief Jack Brommer led the discussion. An audience of about 70 people listened to a panel of six describe their encounters with the drug and users under its influence. Audience members also addressed the panel in a subsequent question-and-answer session.

Go HERE for more information on the community conversation.

Columbia Mayor Leo Lutz lead the community discussion.

Judge David Ashworth explained that heroin addiction has reached a crisis point.

Joel Jakubowski urged parents to act in their children's best interest.

Borough Council Meeting tonight

Columbia Borough Council will meet tonight, June 13 at 7 p.m. at borough Hall, 308 Locust Street.

The meeting is open to the public.

Agenda items to be discussed can be found HERE.

Ghost sign brought back to life

Columbia Spy has been spying on the progress of a painting project at Bootleg Antiques on Bridge Street recently. Newly applied paint has revived a "ghost sign," a faded indicator of a faded industry, in this case, the Superior Laundry Machinery Company. (Go HERE for links to the company's history.) Various stages of the repainting are shown below.

Kudos to Bootleg for bringing back a bit of Columbia's history.