COLUMBIA SPY

Recent pics about town...  The trolley made an appearance on the day of the Halloween parade.  Here's a hawk looking down on us humans.  State police were present along Route 462 at the pipeline site last Friday.  Mission accomplished, out of here  Mark Clatterbuck, founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines, at the chapel next to the pipeline site  At the chapel  A cause  And another  What type of bird is this?  Weather vane to tell which way the wind blows at borough hall  Wrong way parking. Oh well, it's Columbia.  Slab for vendors under Columbia Crossing  Cormorant on the Susquehanna. Another example of our plentiful wildlife.  Free hot dogs and fries at United Methodist Church. The church offered the free goodies every Saturday in October.  There's the sign.  Ernie StrongBear was at the Columbia Market House last Saturda...

It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween around Columbia, what with all the skeletons and ghouls on display - some with a tilt toward dadaism and surrealism...

Residents on the 200 block of Walnut Street were "treated" to another helping of trash this weekend. A similar pile of trash was deposited last weekend as we reported  HERE  and was picked up sometime during the middle of the week.  The photos shown below were taken this morning (Saturday, October 28), but the trash was there since at least yesterday. The pile includes miscellaneous furniture, bags of trash not in appropriate containers - and a storm door with a full pane of glass! The door takes up more than half the sidewalk and is a tripping hazard.

A large LED sign was recently installed behind a wooden sign at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on the 300 block of Locust Street, which is in the Columbia Borough Historic District. A sticker on the side of the sign's casing displays the manufacturer's name and contact information. This STOP WORK sign, possibly related to the LED sign installation,  was posted on one of the entrance doors to the church. According to  an LNP article dated July 25, 2016 , Columbia Borough Council denied the church permission to install an LED sign: Council denied a proposed LED-lighted sign at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 340 Locust St. Glenn Shaeffer, Historic Architectural Review Board chairman, asked that council create an amendment not allowing this type of sign in the future. “There are no other signs like this in the historic district and allowing it would open the door for others and have an impact on the historic nature of the district,” Shaeffer said. “The historic distr...