Sunday, June 4, 2017

About Town

Many pics about town over the last few weeks . . .


 Thumbs up from Columbia's "Rock"
(At Columbia Crossing)

 Daytime moon
(Overhead)

 Even the Grinch says, "Support your local EMS services."
(At Tacos to Go)

 Patriotic revelers on Memorial weekend
(5th & Chestnut)

Above the fray

 Shrine of the dog gods
(Mifflin Mansion on Walnut)

 More sticker shock
(Off Ironville Pike)

 Big Blue
(Little's Beverage)


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Boy Scouts (Troop 35) fix bricks at the DAC:









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 Boat race!

With angelic glow, what appears to be a heavenly emissary . . .

is just an immature cardinal (female).


 And here's an immature male.


New use for an old contraption
(Bootleg Antiques)

Read and heed.
You must carry a bag with you when walking your dog.
For cleanup.
Borough ordinance.
No kidding.

 Sound advice


 There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.

 Deadhead

 Whoa - low!
(Over Laurel Hill)

 Connivers conniving atop Columbia United Methodist Church

 Foggy morning

Side by side

But not eye to eye

 X marks the spot.

 Three in a row

 Wired

 Redhead

 300 block of Avenue G - Enough said.

 Power nap

Polarized

 In training


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The honeybees are making a tentative return . . . 
(Columbia River Park)




 The mantises are still with us.


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 Which way again?

 Mummified cat - shellacked and mounted
(Tollbooth Antiques)


 Tax protester.
Columbia's new millage rate

This sparrow looks like he just saw the sign above.

 Parochial school sign on public school property

 Spanish - English - Arabic
(Near Sixth & Cherry)

 Moon-tipped finial
(500 Chestnut)

Here's something good in Avenue G.

 Walkways crossing Columbia Crossing

 There's that hearse again.
(North Second)

 Who needs AC when you have an open-air ride?
((Avenue F, near Fourth Street)

 Laptop in the sewer. Can Jesse the Computer Guy fix it?

 Down 'n' dirty

 Like the sign says . . . 

Yard sale on the 300 block of Locust


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Mighty oaks being executed on the 800 block of Chestnut . . .





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Work continues on the self-storage facility along Front Street . . . 







Saturday, June 3, 2017

Joint Feasibility Meeting to be held June 14


A Joint Feasibility Study group, consisting of representatives from Columbia Borough and Columbia Borough School District, will meet in the Council meeting room, 308 Locust Street, on June 14th at 5:00 p.m. to consider whether there is sufficient interest to pursue a study concerning the possible consolidation of  School District, Borough administration offices and the Borough Police Department at the School District Administration Office, 200 N 5th St, Columbia.