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Linda Stoltzfoos The FBI has created a composite photo of what she might look like in street clothes. MORE: https://www.abc27.com/news/local/lancaster/fbi-releases-composite-picture-of-missing-amish-girl/

Columbia Borough workers spent the last two days sprucing up the plaza at the entrance to the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Workers mowed, weeded, and spread mulch in preparation for the July 4th holiday.

 The Pennsylvania Department of Labor announced today that they will be extending unemployment benefits for up to thirteen more weeks. In a release, the department said that those who exhaust their benefits, including those under the Federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, may qualify for additional weeks of payments under the state's extended benefits program. Extended benefits would begin with the week ending July 4th and are only payable for weeks the beneficiary remains unemployed. MORE: https://www.pahomepage.com/top-news/pa-department-of-labor-extends-unemployment-benefits/  

A Columbia man claims in a federal excessive force lawsuit that a state parole agent shocked him with a Taser two years ago, then either the agent or a borough police officer kicked him in the head, while he was unconscious. Matthew Allen Grab, 39, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in April. Parole agent Scott Lapp, the borough, Chief Jack Brommer and a John Doe officer are named as defendants. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/man-sues-parole-agent-columbia-police-claiming-excessive-force-used/article_4bcfdfe4-bb14-11ea-bb82-1fc999bd4ebf.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

Columbia Councilwoman Sharon Lintner has been trying to get a copy of the borough police department's use-of-force policy since June 4. She still doesn't have it. She said she tried to get her concerns about getting access to the policy addressed at a council executive session after a council meeting earlier this month, but it wasn't discussed. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-councilwomans-calls-to-make-police-use-of-force-policy-in-borough-public-are-hindered/article_9ff5b1f0-baf3-11ea-824c-eb4f6cc81c63.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

This week's photos of Columbia Three fawns visited Laurel Hill Cemetery recently: ******************************** The Punisher symbol Rolling along at Chiques Rock Outfitters Another weigh-in on the personnel issue Aftermath of the second Stover's break-in, which occurred June 21. The police report is  HERE . "A Daughter of the American Revolution" medallion The Columbia Life Network sign newly mounted at the new location at 18 South 4th Street Filling a trench on South Market Street Linda Stoltzfoos has been missing for a week.  A  Facebook page  has been created for information on the case. They're back. This light on the Veterans Memorial Bridge is part of a  lighting study to study mayfly behavior. Mayflies typically swarm the bridge at this time of year. The aim of the study is to find a lighting combination that will minimize the swarms. As is this one. ...