About Town 1/6/19

This week's photos from around Columbia...

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 Bugman at the Creative Factory, complete with mayflies and eggs

Masochist's device?

 So this is where those fireworks were fired from on New Year's Eve.

(Rotary Park)

 When is a milk can not a milk can?

 Datestone on North 3rd

 Missing plaque

 Survey marker at River Park

 Harbingers of a nasty winter?

 Columbia's Civil War history

 Ditto

 Amish doughnuts?

 On target

 Watch your step

 Datestone

 Downstairs

 Flag down!

 Santa's sack

 Scaffolding in Avenue I

 Highway holdup

 Triple decker

At the bottom of Plane Street - the new dumping ground?

 Or is it here - just beyond the River Park Phase III boundary?

 This means someone actually carried an old TV set all that way just to dump it here and tear it apart.

 Bingo Supply - Who knew?

 Door crutch

 This crew was running fiber optic cable on North 3rd the other day.

 Looks like Columbia is about to enter the 21st Century.

 Lighted mailboxes - all the rage this season

 NO OUTLET - once you get past that rusty chain link fence

 Movement at Colonial Metals

Here's their backside.

 Just add horses

Arch under one of the Civil War piers

 The opening leads . . . somewhere.

 Leak

 Planting trees at River Park

 Here's one.

And a few more

 Chemistry Delivered at the Columbia Water Company

 Yep, that's what it says.

 DIY

 In flight

 Blinding sun after dreary rain

 Time for a new sign

 Bell tower at 3rd and Cherry

 Shadow

 Dungin' out

 Facades

 Meanwhile, at NAWCC:

"Does anybody really know what time it is?

 Does anybody really care?" 

Citizens' meeting Sunday at 2 p.m. to discuss tax hike repeal

A public meeting will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 6, at 500 Chestnut Street to discuss repealing the borough's recent tax hike. Other issues will also be discussed including the formation of a citizens' coalition.

Petitions and voter registration forms will be available at the meeting. (Over 1,000 signatures have been collected on petitions to repeal the tax hike.)

All concerned citizens should attend and make their voices heard.

(Light refreshments will be served.)

$8-9 million proposed Columbia River Park expansion includes amphitheater, pavilion

A 700-person amphitheater, pavilion, an expanded pier, a playground and more may be on its way to Columbia River Park as part of the borough’s ongoing revitalization plan.

There are still many moving parts and yet-to-be decided features for the $8 million to $9 million project, according to Borough Manager Rebecca Denlinger.

Discussion on funding for the project “hasn’t even started,” she added, explaining the long planning process “allowed residents to dream big about what can happen” at the park.

MORE HERE

Wrong-way driver killed, woman injured in head-on crash on Route 30

[Submitted photo and video: Jim Barnhart, Jr.]

A man was killed and a woman injured when their vehicles collided late Thursday night on Route 30 in West Hempfield Township.

The man was driving the wrong way on Route 30 West at the time of the crash, a preliminary investigation has shown.

West Hempfield Township police, in conjunction with the Lancaster County District Attorney’s office, continue to investigate the crash, which happened just before midnight, near Prospect Road.

The deceased man, a 56-year-old from Lancaster County, was reportedly driving a Pontiac coupe east in the westbound lanes of Route 30 when he collided head-on with the woman’s Hyundai SUV.

The woman, a 32-year-old from Wrightsville, is hospitalized with injuries.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His name will be released upon proper notification of relatives.

Anyone with information, who witnessed the crash or what happened before it, is asked to contact West Hempfield Township police at 717-285-5191.

Prior to the crash, other motorists called 911 and reported a vehicle, the Pontiac, was traveling the wrong way on Route 30.

Early information indicates the man was traveling west on Route 30 and made a U-turn in York County, just west of the Wright’s Ferry Bridge, then traveled east for about five miles before the crash.

Assisting West Hempfield Township police were: Columbia, East Hempfield Township and East Lampeter Township police; West Hempfield Fire Rescue and Columbia Borough Fire Department; Lancaster County Coroner’s Office.

[Source: Lancaster County District Attorney's Office]

Columbia man and Columbia juvenile among those charged with robbery and assault in Manheim Township

Darrin Michael Ortiz, Brandon Cesar Bencosme, Luis Berlingeri

Four of the males are wanted by police: Luis Berlingeri, 18, of Lancaster; Brandon Cesar Bencosme, 19, of Lititz; Darrin Michael Ortiz, 20, of Columbia; and a 17-year-old male from Lancaster, regarding the Dec. 16 incident.

One male, a 17-year-old from Columbia, was charged Dec. 21, surrendered to police and was released to his parents after a detention hearing Dec. 26, police said.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/males-wanted-in-december-robbery-assault-of-boys-at-sleepover/article_2d0c9d76-0f77-11e9-aa7c-5b5b40d13ae3.html

Agenda - School Board Committee of the Whole, January 3, 2019

Wine and Spirits Store to be closed for remodeling, starting January 20

 Customers of the PA Wine & Spirits Store on 18th street will soon need to travel a little further for their purchases.  Beginning January 20, 2019, the store will be closed for remodeling.