COLUMBIA SPY

This week's photos from around Columbia (Click/tap on photos to see larger, clearer images.) Making an inquiry Curious character and big brother  As we all know by now, Northwest Bank's Locust Street office is closed.   Obviously, so is the night drop.  Former location of the ATM  Here's a "refinery sealed" cap (?)  Slowly but surely on North 4th  Bank crash  Nail salon on the first block of North 4th  Guy getting a lift  Photo session  Many people do.  Watch out for that shovel!  Two more guys getting a lift - on the 300 block of Chestnut  Lots o' logs  Long plane  Point of contact  Nasty stare  Morning announcements  Sometimes, things just pop up.  Mr. and Mrs. Canada Goose  The poodle gods on the 100 block of Walnut were recently painted.  Here's anothe...

Nyce Tattoos owner Drew Nyce (center) with apprentices Zach Hebert (left) and Josh Weaver  Drew Nyce already had the perfect name to be a tattoo artist, but only chance and necessity made him realize his calling - and the decision to try tattooing opened a path forward. The choice proved to be the right one, because he now owns and operates Nyce Tattoos, a successful shop at 27 South 5th Street, whose grand opening was February 3, 2018. Originally from New York, Nyce eventually hit Reading looking for a job in a city where jobs were scarce. A cousin finally encouraged him to try tattooing and fronted him the money for his first kit. At the time, Nyce wasn't completely unacquainted with the field, since he had been hanging out at his sister's tattoo shop - but he had never thought about plying the trade himself. According to Nyce, he started doing it simply by doing it. "I just started doing it," he told Columbia Spy last week. "Started tatting my friends, ...

"At first, no one was happy," Anders recalls. "The shippers weren't happy, no one here was happy. The system has issues, which you will have with a new shipping solution anyway, but [then there was the added] pressure of how many we had to get out. I would say a lot of people were pretty upset in the beginning, but it is balanced out now and everyone is ecstatic." MORE: https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2019/susquehanna-glass-shipping-digital-upgrade/ Columbia Spy previously reported on Susquehanna Glass  HERE .

A well-known nonprofit group has ended its children’s dental program so it can shift its focus to education and pediatric behavioral health services. CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health ended its 14-year-old dental program March 1. It had primarily served families that had difficulty obtaining care elsewhere. The change has school districts that referred students to its dental clinics in Columbia and East Lampeter Township seeking alternatives. MORE  HERE .