DEEDS RECORDED - COLUMBIA BOROUGH - DECEMBER 20, 2020

Kerry D. Glenn conveyed 131 N. Third St. to WGMC Properties LLC for $90,000.

Amos B. Beiler conveyed 249 N. Third St. to Shamika L. Gray for $280,000.

Perfect Realty LLC and Samson Bergman conveyed property on a public road to Jason C. Foster and Jill L. Foster for $75,000.

Timothy J. Merrill conveyed 529 Union St. to QP JB Invest LLC for $1.

Man Arrested at Airport after Flying Cross Country to Attack Woman in West Hempfield Township | Lancaster County District Attorney's Office

Police arrested a man Monday at BWI Airport – on his way back to Texas – after he traveled cross country to attack a woman in West Hempfield Township. West Hempfield Township police charged 35-year-old Tomas Martinez-Martinez with felony counts of strangulation and intimidating a witness, and related misdemeanors. West Hempfield Township police investigated and coordinated the arrest effort which resulted in Martinez-Martinez's capture Monday afternoon at BWI. The Lancaster County District Attorney's Office assisted in the efforts. Martinez-Martinez is in Arundel County, Md. and will be extradited back to Lancaster County to face the charges. He is presumed innocent.

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https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/da/11617/post/man-arrested-airport-after-flying-cross-country-attack-woman-west-hempfield-township 

Agenda - Columbia Borough Council Meeting - December 22, 2020

 

Download the 128-page meeting packet HERE.

PFM Refinancing Analysis is HERE.

About Town 12/20/2020

This week's photos of Columbia 

Santa came to visit.

Many mini-Santas came to visit, also.

Skyline as seen from Mount Bethel Cemetery

Lighting up the night

[Submitted photo]

Taxpayers spent thousands of dollars, and all we got were these lousy tree lights.

[Submitted photo]

Sections of lights routinely go dark.

Sometimes they come right back on. 

Sometimes not.

Here are some bluer-than-blue lights at Kindred Collections on the 400 block of Locust.

An environmentally friendly Harley

A former vehicle being hauled away

And more junk on its way to somewhere.

This crossing sign near Front and Bridge seems to be a favorite target for vehicles.

Descending clouds

Turkey vulture looking for dead stuff

Waterlogged tree

Temporary window repair?

Free stuff

Looking up Avenue G

Bumper to bumper

Camouflaged!

Big tank coming through

Hand sanitizer at the Chestnut Street Turkey Hill Store

Ongoing problems on the 200 block of Walnut

Watch your step at Columbia Crossing.

Debate around restaurants is complex, but we must heed commonsense restrictions [editorial] | Editorials | lancasteronline.com

https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/debate-around-restaurants-is-complex-but-we-must-heed-commonsense-restrictions-editorial/article_99a91a46-40cf-11eb-8f10-3f7de956ab04.html 

After 41 years, a final run for first woman to drive bus for Red Rose Transit

At the wheel of the Route 18 bus, Denise Smith, 64, departed Lancaster's Queen Street Station with two riders at 12:10 p.m. Friday on a run to Elizabethtown that would prove routine in every way but one: it was her last after 41 years.

A pleasant, reserved woman, wearing a scarf, gray fleece and black facemask, Smith kept to a tight schedule on a winding, two-hour, 45-mile roundtrip through snow-blanketed Landisville and Mount Joy to Elizabethtown's Amtrak station. Then she headed back the same way to Lancaster. All told, she transported 10 riders.

"Be safe out there," said one as he got off in Mount Joy with a companion who used a walker.

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https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/after-41-years-a-final-run-for-first-woman-to-drive-bus-for-red-rose/article_c85f25c2-4180-11eb-b713-c38da2b7615e.html 

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church faces expensive fixes

Time has taken its toll on St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Built in 1885, the historical church building at 340 Locust St., Columbia, has weathered rain, snow and wind for over a century. Faced with a growing list of repairs and a lack of funds, the church is struggling to keep its doors open.

"The most urgent structural repair needing to be done is the roof," says the Rev. Patrick Peters, priest at St. Paul's.

If something isn't done soon, he says, the building will need to be vacated due to safety concerns. He knows the roof protects the structure of the building and church artifacts as well as those who gather for worship. St. Paul's leaking roof affects the interior as well as exterior of the building.

Peters says he's seen a lot of upgrades to the church buildings in his almost 18 years as church rector.

The necessary roof repairs are estimated at $300,000, Peters says. This involves replacing ridge caps, flashings, valleys and gutters on the 135-year-old gabled slate roof. The main problem appears to be the masonry wall under the capstones on the roof peaks which will need to be rebuilt.

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https://lancasteronline.com/features/st-paul-s-episcopal-church-faces-expensive-fixes/article_16adf8e2-415f-11eb-9e84-f77636cf7b86.html