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Columbia Spy has just obtained the following page from from an August 8, 2016 ELANCO Personnel Report that names Tom Strickler as the Director of Operations at Columbia Borough School District, effective August 9, 2016. MORE TO FOLLOW

A painted and installed tree well grate Last month, Columbia Borough Council discussed purchasing decorative tree well grates for the town. The proposal was for 25 sets of cast iron grates to be purchased from Sahd Salvage at a cost of $50 per set and to have Garage Boyz Powder Coating coat them with a black semi-gloss paint at a cost of $50 per set, bringing the total cost to $2,500. The grates were originally priced at $100 each, but Sahd's is offering them to the borough at half price. Brand new grates can cost several hundred dollars. After much discussion, the item was tabled until the Shade Tree Commission could address it. Tree well grates to be coated At its July 12, 2016 meeting, the Columbia Borough Shade Tree Commission noted that the grates would be used on the 300 block of Locust Street and around the market house as a trial but expressed concern about a size mismatch: The grates are 3' x 3' but the Locust Street tree pits are 3' x 5'. Accor...

Hailing from Clarksdale, Mississippi, Anthony "Big A" Sherrod and the Cornlickers electrified the crowd with a rousing performance Saturday night on the second floor of Columbia Kettle Works.  Playing to a capacity audience, frontman Sherrod sang, played, danced, and worked the crowd, talking to guests as he wound his way through the gathering - all while riffing on his red Telecaster guitar. At times, listeners got up and "cut the rug" to rollicking blues rhythms from the Mississippi delta, as stellar showman Sherrod danced along with them. During an extended finale number, the band invited revelers onto the stage area to dance and mingle with musicians, until the room was completely infused with good vibes. Create Columbia  sponsored the concert, Union Station Grill  provided food and drinks, and Bill Collister, owner of Columbia Kettle Works , allowed use of the second floor without charge. Sherrod invited Columbia Spy to follow him with a camera as he wo...

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Columbia Spy is privileged to publish several articles by Columbia native Mike Clark, with permission of the author. The essays were previously published in The Globe Leader and 50-plus Senior News and will continue to be reprinted in the Spy over the next few weeks. The Way I See It: Another One Gone? By Mike Clark There’s a church for sale in a town near here. It has been there as a Sunday school since 1897; the present structure has been there since 1937. It’s a beautiful building, with all the traditional stained-glass windows, bronze plaques, and wooden pews that have been burnished to a glassy smoothness over the years by wool suits, cotton dresses, and the restless limbs of small children. I am concerned when churches go up for sale. I worry that they will be converted to secular use when they are sold. It happens. I’ve visited a few of these altered structures on candlelight tours and other occasions. Instead of being uplifting and spiritual, they were eerie and dev...