COLUMBIA SPY

According to the agenda, the Columbia Borough Council meeting of February 22, 2022 is supposed to be livestreamed on the borough's Facebook page - but it's not. Neither is there any warning or explanation posted. Did the borough forget to pay its bills again? Is it a carefully constructed ploy to keep citizens in the dark? Or is there some other reason they're not telling us about?

  According to the agenda, the February 22, 2022 Columbia Borough Ad Hoc Committee meeting is supposed to be livestreamed on the borough's Facebook page - but it's not. The same thing happened last month. Who keeps dropping the ball?

The meeting packet is  HERE.

  The meeting packet is  HERE.

Jere L. Bridgeman conveyed 732 Chestnut St. to Awakened Properties LLC for $165,000. Premier Home Solutions LLC and David L. Hyson conveyed property on a public road to Sarek Properties LLC for $325,000. Yagaira M. Santiago, William J. Richard Berdecia and William J Richard Berdecia conveyed property on Devonshire Place to William J Richard Berdecia, Yagaira M. Santiago, William J. Richard Berdecia and Andy Joseph Santiago for $1. Shannon C. Hoak and Heather L. Hoak conveyed property on North Fourth Street to Miranda Henne for $275,000. Lynn E. Kister and Mary Z. Kister conveyed 516 Avenue N. to Kyle B. Kister for $1. Lauren Deasy and Lauren E. Smith conveyed 1236 Central Ave. to Cody Allen Deitz and Rebecca Kutz for $230,000. William McMichael and Lancaster County Tax Claim Bureau conveyed 429 Cedar St. to Kimberly L. Cornish for $500. Lancaster County Land Bank Authority conveyed 921 Spruce St. to Cimarron Construction LLC and Donald C. Murphy for $27,500.

Recent photos of Columbia (Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.)  Early morning moon at the DAC Heads Up on Barber Street Pillars in late afternoon light A meat  heart -  Not in Columbia but strange nonetheless Love is in the air. The "diversion" for the water intake project has become an efficient debris collector. Yes it has. On June 28, 1863, several Columbians helped burn the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge to keep the Confederates out of here. They're buried in Mount Bethel Cemetery.  Yet, this thing now flies in Columbia. There's a strange-looking cloud. Here's a closer look. Doggo looking tired but wary. Google tells us:  "In the military, a Nine Line is a medevac request for a soldier that is injured on the battlefield. To soldiers, a Nine Line symbolizes patriotism, hope, and trust in one's countrymen." Up a tree Trees were being cut at Saint Peter Apartments the other day. This is how you block a street. Be aware of new stop sign...

James Guerin [DAN NEPHIN DNEPHIN@LNPNEWS.COM] It’s a good bet that most Clipper Magazine employees or anyone driving by the company’s East Hempfield Township headquarters have no idea of the property’s connection to Lancaster County’s largest-ever corporate crime. Addresses for Clipper and other businesses at the campus now list “Hempland Road” for the street address. Google Maps still hints at its past: Electronics Way, where a 100-acre campus was built in the early 1980s to headquarter International Signal & Control Corp.’s defense systems division. James Guerin, who died Feb. 10 at 91, founded ISC in his Landisville basement and grew it to employ 1,800 locally, making it one of the county’s largest employers. It employed 5,500 worldwide. ISC and its divisions made space rockets and security, defense and ordnance systems, such as missile fuses and devices to jam radio signals. Ultimately, Guerin was found responsible for fraudulent contracts worth $1.14 billion, coupled with a $5...