Payment for tickets will no longer be accepted at borough office front desk starting December 1, 2017

Effective December 1, 2017, parking tickets and quick tickets will no longer be accepted at the front desk of the borough office. All tickets must be either mailed to the borough or placed in the drop box at the borough office. If you wish to contest a ticket you will need to do so by stopping at Magisterial District Judge Bixler's office located at 341 Chestnut Street.

The drop box at the borough office is located on the front of the borough office just west of the entrance to the offices. The photo above shows the location of the drop box.

Source: Columbia Borough Police Department

Kidde brand recalls fire extinguishers

A recall notice was recently issued for Kidde brand fire extinguishers. The company announced a recall of fire extinguishers with a plastic handle due to a failure to properly activate during a fire emergency.

The recall affects 134 models of Kidde fire extinguishers with plastic handles and push-button Pindicator extinguishers manufactured between January 1, 1973 and August 15, 2017.

Affected consumers should immediately contact Kidde for a free replacement fire extinguisher. To contact Kidde, call toll-free (855) 271-0773 or visit kidde.com and click on "Product Safety Recall" for additional information.

For a list of recalled Kidde fire extinguisher models, visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission website at cpsc.gov/Recalls/2017 

High school equivalency prep classes every Tuesday and Thursday at the library

Columbia Food Bank needs your help

The Columbia Food Bank is in need of donations of nonperishable food, monetary donations to purchase food, and volunteers to help sort and distribute the food.

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Columbia's municipal tax rate to drop

At Monday's borough council meeting, Council President Kelly Murphy announced that the borough's millage rate will decrease from the current 8 mills to 6.6 mills due to the recent county-wide reassessment.

Taxing entities adjust their millage rates down in proportion to an increase in taxable assessment.

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About Town

Recent pics around town...


To start things off, here's an abundance of seagulls in all their Hitchcockian splendor...

Here's another type of bird - the iron-winged variety - at the Lloyd Mifflin House.

The other town clock, at 5th and Chestnut. 

But look at that sky!

 The police pulled over an oversized load on the 200 block of Union Street last week. The truck was carrying huge steel beams.

Down in a hole

 Down in a hole digging a hole

 Unfinished business

 Respect for the flag

 If you doubt that corporations run our country, here are three reasons to believe otherwise.

 Bell on the 400 block of Chestnut

 They're starting to add up.

GMEN?

Here?

 3 "punkins"

 Looks like fall has fallen.

 Silver trim

The backstory on the town square

 Corrected

Go HERE for the "before" version - fourth picture down.

 Reflection

 Bird feeder, creatively done, at Columbia River Park

 Waiting for the other shoe to drop?

 Bridge over untroubled waters

 Armed Forces flags at Bootleg Antiques

 "Signature" of a sidewalk artist, as in one who has poured a sidewalk.

 Here's another one.

1906

111 years ago

How the time flies

 Hinkles sign at the high school, along with some unattended mop handles

Construction on 7th 

And here's two more for Veterans Day...