From the agenda:
New business: (a) resolution authorizing a memorandum of understanding with Habitat for Humanity for the redevelopment of the parcels on South Fifth Street in Columbia, including 233, 237, 239 243 and 245 S. Fifth St.; (b) resolution authorizing disposition of 921 Spruce St., Columbia.
Monday, December 20, 2021
Sunday, December 19, 2021
3 Columbia cemeteries held Wreaths Across America ceremonies this weekend
Mount Bethel Cemetery, 700 Locust St., hosted a Wreaths Across America event at noon on Saturday to honor veterans, living and deceased, from all branches of the military.
Community members participated by laying wreaths on graves of the more than 600 veterans buried at Mount Bethel Cemetery.
Retired Army Sgt. Major Spike Gaylord Grant emceed the program. Several retired veterans laid wreaths, as well: Harold Thomas, Coast Guard; Sandra Duncan, Air Force; LuAnn Grant, Army; Harry Knighton, Navy; Jason Price II, Marines; George Biagio, Merchant Marines; and Albert Storm, representing POW/MIA.
Vet21 provided the 21-gun salute. A color guard also participated.
Community members participated by laying wreaths on graves of the more than 600 veterans buried at Mount Bethel Cemetery.
Retired Army Sgt. Major Spike Gaylord Grant emceed the program. Several retired veterans laid wreaths, as well: Harold Thomas, Coast Guard; Sandra Duncan, Air Force; LuAnn Grant, Army; Harry Knighton, Navy; Jason Price II, Marines; George Biagio, Merchant Marines; and Albert Storm, representing POW/MIA.
Vet21 provided the 21-gun salute. A color guard also participated.
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Zion Hill Cemetery's ceremony was held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, December 19, at 553 N. 5th St..
Zion Hill is a restored historic cemetery dedicated to 18 African American residents of Columbia who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The ceremony featured a color guard from the Lancaster Fencibles; speakers Mark Stivers, Columbia's borough manager, and Sharon Lintner, vice president of Columbia Borough Council; and two members of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society, historian Christopher Vera and Tony Williams, reading the names of the interred. William Kloidt gave the invocation.
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A Wreaths Across America ceremony was held at Laurel Hill Memorial Gardens, 845 Laurel Hill Road, at 2 p.m. Sunday. Participants laid wreaths in remembrance of veterans buried there. A color guard consisting of veterans also participated in the ceremony.
'A significant gift': Local woman's collection of warped plants from around TMI headed to Smithsonian
Mary Stamos admitted she had no grand plan for her collection of misshapen plants when she first began plucking them from the area surrounding Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in the wake of the partial meltdown in 1979.
She simply planned to preserve the warped vegetation to share with her neighbors, believing the plants' abnormal appearances were the result of radiation released during the accident — radiation that she feared could also have ill effects on the people living in her community.
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Columbia man indicted by federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges: Justice Department
A Columbia man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of drug trafficking, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Jose Alvarez-Carrillo, 65, was indicted on two counts of distribution of methamphetamine and one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine on Dec. 15, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said in a news release.
Alvarez-Carrillo committed the offenses in York County between April and May 2021, said U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus.
The case was investigated by the FBI and state police.
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Wrightsville Borough Council vice president says he is intentionally skipping meetings
In the waning days of their terms on Wrightsville Borough Council, members Rick McDonald and Frederick Smith Jr. have skipped two or three meetings, leaving the York County council without a quorum.
And Smith, who is council's vice president, said that for him it's intentional. He disagrees with council President Eric J. White's approach to filling a seat on Borough Council and two upcoming vacancies on the Wrightsville Municipal Authority.
"The filling of these three vacancies by a lame-duck council are great injustices in my opinion, which I could not stop by being present and voting," Smith said in an email. "But I could stop them by not being present at all. So that is what I have chosen to do."
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The National Christmas Center is designed as Columbia, Pa. in the 1940s
The National Christmas Center might be the largest collection of Christmas artifacts in the world and it has reopened with a grand new holiday exhibition.
The space is designed as the owner's hometown of Columbia, Pa., from the 1940s, with storefronts decorated for the holidays.
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