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Aquaponics for the market house to cost $96,500
Robert Irwin (center) and associates discuss aquaponics at Monday's borough council meeting. Industrial Designer Robert Irwin and two associates presented a proposal to borough council Monday night for an aquaponics operation in the market house. Aquaponics is a system combining conventional aquaculture (raising fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) with the aim of selling fish and produce year-round. They are asking the borough to invest $96,500 for the project. The operation would consist of a market kiosk that would act as an automated farm for year-round produce sales. The crew would build and operate the system for the borough. From construction to operation will take about eight weeks. For example, using January 1 as the start date, the enterprise could be up and running by the middle of February, with a few additional weeks to get plants and fish operational. The proposal includes estimates of 3200 plants produced per year (10-11 harvests per y...
Ashley Curry sentenced to 6-16 years for 2015 Columbia Plaza shooting
Ashley Rose Curry Judge Merrill Spahn sentenced Ashley Rose Curry, 33, to six to 12 years for felony aggravated assault, followed by one month to two years for ethnic intimidation, and one month to two years for simple assault, with the sentences to be served consecutively. In July, a jury found Curry guilty of the charges which stem from a February 3, 2015 incident in the parking lot of the Columbia Plaza in Columbia, in which Curry shot Jamie Roland. Curry alleges that Roland, her sister Crystal Manfred, and Alicia McGowin charged at her "like a pack of wild animals." The diminutive Curry claims that she felt "outnumbered" and overpowered" by the larger women and said the shooting was an act of self-defense. Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen said the shooting was racially motivated and justifies filing the charge of ethnic intimidation, a misdemeanor. Curry is white, and the other women are black. "I'd have shot her i...
Columbia man and one other charged for fighting over tangled lines
Officer Trevor St. Clair said Loi V. Nguyen, 44, of Ephrata and Tan T. Ngo, 64, of Columbia were cited with disorderly conduct for the Oct. 5 incident. MORE: http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/10/cops_fishermen_charged_for_fig.html#incart_river_mobile_index