Columbia Night Lights December 7, 2016
It's beginning to look a lot like . . . At 15th & Manor . . . When passing the house, tune to 107.5 FM to hear the music that triggers the lights.
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Columbia moves to join land bank to handle troubled properties
Matthew Sternberg, executive director of Lancaster County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities, addressed a joint meeting of Columbia Borough Council and Columbia Borough School Board Tuesday night about the land bank. [File photo] Columbia Borough Council and the Columbia Borough School Board voted to join forces with the Lancaster County Land Bank at a joint meeting Tuesday night. Columbia will be the first municipality in the county to do so. The land bank provides a means for remediation of blighted, vacant, and abandoned properties in the borough. The agreement will not be binding until the land bank authority approves it and the ordinance is advertised. According to Matthew Sternberg, executive director of Lancaster County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities, the land bank authority plans to do so at its December 20 meeting. The ordinance authorizes execution of the inter-governmental cooperation agreement. Sternberg was present at Tuesday's meeting and p...
Columbia moves forward on land bank plan
Columbia Borough Council and the Columbia Borough School Board voted to join forces with the Lancaster County Land Bank at a joint meeting Tuesday night. Columbia will be the first municipality in the county to do so. The move will give the borough more options in dealing with blighted properties. The ordinance to join the land bank will be advertised, and the land bank must vote to approve the move at its December 20 meeting. MORE TO FOLLOW
Joint meeting of borough council and school board to be held Tuesday night
There will be a joint meeting of the Columbia Borough Council and the Columbia Borough School District at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 6, at the District administration Center, 200 North Fifth Street, to discuss a land bank proposal and other business. The legal notice for the meeting is shown below: Legal Notice is hereby given that both the Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia, and the School Board of the Columbia Borough School District, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania will hold a joint special meeting on December 6, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at the School District Administration Center, 200 North Fifth Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania for purposes of considering and taking action to approve an Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement between the Lancaster County Land Bank Authority, the Borough of Columbia and the Columbia Borough School District, to consider hiring two part-time park rangers, and to consider any other matters that may properly come before either body; it bei...
Model Train Open House Saturdays and Sundays in December
The Columbia Historic Preservation Society will be presenting the Ed King Model Train Open House every Saturday and Sunday in December (Christmas weekend - Friday and Saturday). The exhibit is open 1-4 p.m. and is free of charge, but donations are accepted. The Historic Society building is at 21 North Second Street.