COLUMBIA SPY

Tom Strickler dominated the conversation at Thursday night's Columbia Borough School Board meeting of the whole, even though he wasn't there. Despite questioning from residents, the board offered no reason for his conspicuous absence. Not only was he absent, his name was absent from the agenda; that is, there was no mention of his name with regard to his appointment by ELANCO School District as "Director of Operations" for Columbia. The appointment was approved at ELANCO's August 8 meeting of the whole, where Strickler was present, along with ELANCO Superintendent Dr. Robert Hollister. The Columbia board tiptoed past the issue on Thursday when it discussed the agenda item "Modification of Executive Service Contract date change 8/9/2016" without mentioning Strickler's name. In fact, his name was not uttered until later in the meeting when resident Frank Doutrich asked a series of pointed questions. Hollister also was not present at the m...

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. My Workshop by Mike Clark There’s a place just off our family room that I like to call my workshop. Workshop is a misnomer, however. There’s hardly room to move in there, let alone do work. It’s become a place where I go only to look for tools when something in the house breaks, leaks, or falls apart. Sometimes I even think about making stuff—until I turn the lights on. I look there because I know I put tools in there at one time or another. I just don’t remember which ones or where. I store tools in other places, too (which exacerbates my problem), but the shop is the principal place for the essential implements that I need to maintain our home. Halloween decorations and paint cans (filled to various levels w...

A Columbia businessman whose company makes and distributes hemp products in Lancaster County, launched his congressional bid in March as a third-party option to the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees: Christina Hartman and Lloyd Smucker. MORE: http://lancasteronline.com/news/politics/district-race-update-libertarian-candidate-s-petition-approved/article_f9b6dbe6-5f40-11e6-bd6c-673d20cfda3d.html

The Susquehanna Center for the Creative Arts announces Fall Classes and Workshops in Ceramics (pottery), Computer Imaging, Drawing, Painting, Papermaking and Stone Carving. Courses and workshops are offered for children and adults. To sign-up go to: http://www.eventbrite.com/o/susquehanna-center-for-the-creative-arts-8528419952

Monday . . .  Northwest Bank on the 300 block of Locust got a new sign. Tuesday . . . CHI Dental Center at Fourth and Locust got a new roof.

SOURCE: https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/columbiapd/10552/post/columbia-police-are-looking-stolen-vehicle