Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Columbia Borough school considers options for spectators, fall sports; school board director resigns
When: Columbia Borough school board meeting, Sept. 17.
What happened: The board unanimously approved a motion to allow student-athletes districtwide to play sports this fall with or without spectators in attendance.
Background: The district, according to a statement from the school board, will proceed with fall sports while "following current guidelines from PIAA, LGH, District 3, and the L-L League." In accordance with current state regulations, this means the district would limit in-person attendance to 25 for indoor and 250 for outdoor events. The board, however, continues to discuss various measures meant to deter or bar spectators from attending athletic events hosted at its schools.
Livestreams: Superintendent Tom Strickler said plans are underway to livestream events on YouTube over the fall semester. The public would access these streams with data provided on the district website. The board also will consider an option to livestream games in classrooms with a 25-person attendance limit per room.
Resignations: The school board accepted the resignation of Cole Knighton, who abruptly resigned as a board member via letter Sept. 7. To fill this open seat, the district will announce a vacancy on its website and welcome members of the community to apply for the position by Oct. 9.
Appointments: Last month, Michael Smith resigned as principal of Columbia High School, effective Sept. 30. Robert Kedney, who served as assistant principal at both the middle and high schools, will succeed Smith as interim principal. He will serve until Jan. 31, 2021.
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
About Town 9/20/20
This week's photos of Columbia
(Tap/click each photo to see a larger, sharper image.)
Faces about town:
Laurel Hill Cemetery . . .
Jesus #1
Jesus #2
Holy Trinity Cemetery . . .
Jesus #3 and father
And mother
Mount Bethel Cemetery . . .
John Houston Mifflin, father of Columbia poet and artist Lloyd Mifflin
Tiny angel
This is apparently a Statue of Hope, which is explained HERE.
Here's the full Statue of Hope at Mount Bethel.
(From a previous post)
The Weeping Angel
(From a previous post)
Locust Street Park . . .
The Returned Soldier
(The backstory of this statue is HERE.)
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The neighborhood vagabond
The Columbia Market House project continues.
Bridge (south side)
Bridge (North side)
Another "proper" boat ramp could be installed here at the bottom of Union Street.
Andy's Market at 4th & Cherry is closing at the end of October, but the Ironville Pike location (shown above) will stay open.
A new sign in town (400 block of Locust)
Another new sign
Hambones bell tower
Gate at Holy Trinity Cemetery
Cross
Trees are being removed along Shawnee Run in preparation for an upcoming project.
Some sort of humongous cargo plane
Reflection of York County
The sign was recently placed at Columbia Presbyterian due to loiterers and trespassers.
An Air Force One-looking plane up in the fog
The 800 block of Locust is almost back to normal.
Due to ongoing dumping, this collection box on the 600 block of Poplar has been removed.
The 441 bypass was constructed to keep big trucks like this out of the center of town.
Looks like they're still coming through.
On Tuesday, a short stretch of Front Street was closed due to pieces of the bridge falling off.
(Note the debris on the far right in the second photo.)
This sign still appears at River Park . . .
but so does this one.
A live spotted lanternfly
And a dead one.
Traps like this one are being used in the hope of reducing the infestation.
Friday, September 18, 2020
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Bail modification hearings underway for Lancaster protesters arrested following Sunday police shooting
Thursday morning, Taylor Enterline and Kathryn Patterson had their bail modified to $50,000, placed under "geographical restrictions." Enterline and Patterson can not be within one block of the Lancaster City police station per the restrictions.
- Jamal Shariff Newman - $1 million
- Barry Jones - $1 million
- Frank Gaston – probation detainer
- Yoshua Dwayne Montague - $1 million
- Matthew Modderman - $1 million
- Talia Gessner - $1 million
- Kathryn Patterson - $1 million
- Taylor Enterline - $1 million
- T-Jay Fry - $1 million
- Dylan Davis - $1 million
- Alexa Wise - $100,000
- Jessica Marie Lopez - $250,000
- Juvenile Male – Unknown (juvenile court)
- Timothy Garcia - $100,000
- Seth Gardner - $100,000
- Pedro Velasquez - $50,000 combined bail from two dockets
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