COLUMBIA SPY

  UPDATE: According to court documents filed today (7/14/21), an additional charge of Criminal Attempt - Criminal Homicide has been brought against Michael A. Newport II. Newport allegedly entered a home in Columbia on June 8 and attacked a man residing there. The police report on the incident is  HERE.

Alan Walsh made a stopover at Columbia River Park before embarking on the final leg of his 230-mile Susquehanna River trek. Alan Walsh's philosophy has always been "If you don't do it, you won't do it." He has now applied that credo and is doing something he always wanted to do: kayak a stretch of the Susquehanna - in this case the 230-mile trek from Sayre, PA to Havre de Grace, MD. Once he decided to undertake the journey, he got to work planning and training a few weeks ago. Besides workouts with the kayak, the prep work included packing provisions such as MRE's (packaged, ready-to-eat meals) and granola bars, as well as a yoga map and tarp for use during stopovers along the way. He didn't stow water, though, because he figured he had a lot of it already - a riverful, in fact. He uses a special filter (shown below) that helps make river water safe to drink. He also packed an "old-school" folding paper map that he calls his "road map" ...

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Columbia Borough, Donegal and Warwick are the only school districts that did not raise taxes this year. This is Columbia and Warwick's second year in a row with a property tax freeze. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/all-but-3-lancaster-county-school-districts-raise-property-taxes-in-2021-22/article_be2ec7fa-e11d-11eb-b682-e3674cdc4c85.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

Mona Adly Gerges Hanna, Mona Adly Gerges Hanna and Mona A. Hanna conveyed 538 N. Third St. to Mona Adly Gerges Hanna, Mona Adly Gerges Hanna and Ramy Helal Nazier for $1. Cimarron Investments LLC and Donald C. Murphy conveyed property on a public road to Mifflin Investment Group LLC for $443,000. WGMC Properties LLC and Walter L. Siderio conveyed property on a public road to Beate G. Wilson and Cheyenne D. Wilson for $293,000. Liane Garner conveyed property on North Second Street to Renewed Concepts LLC for $130,000. Kondaur Capital LLC, Matawin Ventures Trust Series 2020-1 and Kondaur Capital Corp. conveyed property on Poplar Street to Mikhaela D. Campo for $140,000. Austin H. Hogentogler conveyed 314 N. Third St. to QP Invest Real Estate Group LLC for $92,000. Sylvan Allgyer conveyed 117 N. Fourth St. to Joel T. Vazquez and Norma Vazquez for $244,000. Mark Temons and Nicole Temons conveyed 839 Spruce St. to Adam J. Burtis and Cidney E. Rupp for $159,900. The estate of Peggy Lee Ressl...

Some recent photos of Columbia . . .  (Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) Five bronze medallions like this one mark the graves of Columbia's "bridge burners" at Mount Bethel Cemetery. The five men burned the covered bridge across the Susquehanna on June 28, 1863 to prevent Confederate forces from advancing.  This one is on J.Q. Denney's grave marker. (You can read Denney's deposition on the burning of the bridge  HERE .) Here's John Conklin Lockard's marker. A memorial ceremony - and grave marker dedication for Lockard- was held at Mount Bethel Cemetery on Sunday, September 14, 2014, as Columbia Spy reported  HERE . The medallions, which were forged by a local foundry, also appear on the grave markers of bridge burners W. Robert Crane and Jacob Rich.  Jacob Miller, one of the original five, was an African-American whose grave marker also features a medallion. It is located in Potter's Field at Mount Bethel. His actual grave site is u...