COLUMBIA SPY

A craft brew extravaganza with food trucks and vendors! Taste a variety of brews and fare presented by brewers and food trucks lining Locust Street from Second to Fifth in downtown Columbia. Enjoy the music while you dine in the street, which is closed to traffic for this event. Tickets costing $40 per person can be purchase by clicking here . On the event day, bring your ticket and ID to receive your event bracelet which entitles you to sample the beers presented. Tickets for the sampling portion of this event may be available on event day, but will cost $45 each. For more information, call 717-684-5249. Remember, drink responsibly! A list of our currently confirmed beer vendors is found in the table below. Keep scrolling down for information on slated entertainment, information on parking and the free shuttle, information on food vendors, and information for food vendors interested in participating. Confirmed Beer Vendors as of 7/06/16...keep looking back as we expand our list! ...

(Columbia Spy received the following letter. The author's name is withheld by request.) I have had the pleasure of getting to know some of the stand holders at the Columbia Market House over the past several months. They are great people who are doing their best to keep things going. I'm new to Columbia, so I don't have the history of the Market House and what has been tried (or not tried) to promote its well-being. I do know it's a beautiful old building right smack in the center of town and I fell in love with it at first sight. I also understand that it has been under the watchful eye of a Trust over the past several years (now dissolved). It sounds as if the Trust did not achieve what it had hoped for concerning the Market House. There are probably a lot of reasons why. For one, Lancaster County is stock full of Farmers Markets on different days of the week. Not to mention a person can go straight to the farm itself and purchase the items they want. There w...

We must be willing to invest in each other, to approach each other with respect, check our biases at the door and make a sincere effort toward understanding. Suddenly, the world seems much smaller than it once was. But we need not focus on the world's problems right now. There is still much work to do in our own neighborhoods. http://lancasteronline.com/opinion/searching-for-understanding-after-a-senseless-act/article_dc66f7fe-582b-11e6-8f6d-9f8b0804fc2f.html

Columbia Borough celebrated its 4th annual National Night Out on Tuesday, August 2, 2016. The community came together for some much-needed healing after recent events.  Lots of free hot dogs! (Unidentified personage in the background)  Always a hit, Jack Hubley wowed the crowd with a variety of critters  including this well-fed rat snake.  Councilwoman Steph Weisser tried on a protective suit used by the Lancaster County Prison K-9 Unit.  Lancaster County Prison K-9 Unit on the hunt for the bad guy. Bad guy encountered TAKEDOWN! APPREHENDED!  Bad guy being escorted  Long line for the horse rides  Off and running - or at least walking  Union encampment equipped for a little git-fiddle music.  Firefighters beating up a Camry in preparation for a rescue demo using the Jaws of Life Cutting up  Columbia resident Angel Rodriguez and Officer Brent Keyser ...

The mother of a teen charged in Friday's shooting blames the organization Black Lives Matter for the actions of the teen and his accomplice. " They are in jail for doing what Black Lives Matter wanted them to do: shoot at cops, " Luz Rentas said in a statement to several media outlets, Associated Press  reported . " The truth is that these are two punk kids following the orders of an irresponsible organization and now they're gonna pay for it. " BLM rejects the claim.