COLUMBIA SPY

This week's photos of Columbia  (Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) A storm dumped almost a foot of snow on Columbia this week, but no vehicles were towed.  The photo above is from February 2014, when vehicles were towed (and ticketed). Back then, vehicles along Locust Street (a snow emergency route) were removed so that snow could be cleared, as Columbia Spy reported HERE . At the February 2, 2021 Columbia Borough Council work session, Mayor Lutz commented on snow removal in the borough: "We tried to be nice; it didn't work. We realize we have a problem," Mayor Leo Lutz told council members. "There are some things that need to be changed." Here's one of the snow photos from this past week, as seen at the Columbia Water Company. The rest of the snow photos are at the end of this post. ************************ Here's yet another clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk. Tis the season Back in the day Window of to...

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When: Columbia Borough Council work session, Feb. 2. What happened: Borough Council needs to fill a vacancy after member Pamela Wilson resigned her position, effective immediately. Wilson, who joined the council in 2016, plans to spend more time with her son, who moved to Florida. Anyone interested in serving on council must be a registered voter and have lived continuously in the borough for the past year. Letters of interest, addressed to President Heather Zink, must be received by Feb. 22, at the borough office, 308 Locust St., Columbia, PA, 17512. Public interviews will follow, Zink said. Parking in the snow: The recent snowstorm caused major traffic problems for the borough because some residents did not move their parked cars, as the borough requires. The borough didn't tow these cars, even though they caused delays for snowplows and blocked streets needed for emergency vehicles to access Route 30. Quotable: "We tried to be nice; it didn't work. We realize we have a ...

GAYLE JOHNSON for LNP | LancasterOnline Feb 1, 2021 When: Columbia Borough council meeting, Jan. 26. What happened: Council President Heather Zink told members she wants each of them to prioritize goals for the new year and then shared two of hers: cutting unnecessary spending and overseeing the borough’s financial areas. Quotable: “It’s kind of hard to spend your money when you don’t know what your priorities are,” Zink said after the meeting. “We have to set goals about what is important to the community.” Zink said she chose finance as her area of interest because she works with mortgage-lending and servicing software. More information: Borough council member choose areas of expertise, according to Borough Manager Mark Stivers. Members used to form committees but soon realized that the number of weekly committee and council meetings took too much time, Stivers explained after the meeting. So, each council member now works with staff on at least one area of leadership. Those areas sh...

The snow emergency is lifted as of Tuesday, February 2 at 5 PM.  Vehicles may not return to snow emergency routes until after the snow emergency has been lifted at 5 PM.

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