COLUMBIA SPY

The Honorable Robert Herman swore in Rebecca Young as school board director at Tuesday night's Columbia School Board meeting.  In a unanimous vote at Tuesday night's Columbia Borough School Board meeting, former school board director Rebecca Young was appointed to the vacant board seat left by the resignation of Christine Misciagna.  The Honorable Robert Herman was present for the meeting and swore in Young. Young was the lone applicant for the position.

A teenager accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend in their Columbia apartment last month will have her charges decided in Lancaster County Court. Janiyah Ann Torres, 17, waived her preliminary hearing Monday before District Judge Miles K. Bixler. She is charged with third-degree murder and homicide, both first-degree felonies. In Pennsylvania, homicide is automatically treated as an adult crime, but a minor can petition to have the case moved to juvenile court, which focuses on rehabilitation and includes supervision until age 21. MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/case-of-columbia-teen-charged-with-fatally-stabbing-boyfriend-heading-to-county-court/article_4c5cf26c-5724-11ee-a381-a3d6b81f0144.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share  

  The meeting packet is  HERE.

Duane M. Reese and Christina L. Reese conveyed 202 Poplar St. to Lara Guest for $258,000. John R. Moody, Melissa Moody and Melissa A. Moody conveyed 746 Locust St. to Kyle Anthony Warfel for $85,000. Thomas C. Metzger and Elizabeth A. Metzger conveyed 335 Avenue G to Daisy Sanchez for $168,000. The estate of Anisa Mahadeo conveyed 219 S. Third St. to DS Sherman LLC for $110,000. Jeffrey J. Seibert conveyed property on a public road to Christina L. Reese for $245,000. Arlette Warren conveyed property on North Fourth Street to Lancaster Area Habitat For Humanity Inc. for $175,000.

This week's photos of Columbia  (Click/tap on photos to see larger, sharper images.) 'Tis the season When you're missing a femur but you feel like dancing anyway -  or performing a Shakespeare soliloquy Meanwhile, on Kinderhook Road . . .  A big-boned skeleton crew And what's that coming toward us in the distance? It's some sort of werewolfy creature. And remember: When you spray for spiders, they sometimes come back bigger and badder than ever. ***************** Bigfoot or Albatwitch? Glittery jack o'lantern Miss Evangelista  after the transcription error? In the window of Obscure Relics There's the name. Seen on the 200 block of Locust If that's the Cross of Coronado, it belongs in a museum. Green heron along shore Is it the same one seen  HERE ? Some leaves are different, but they're all part of the same tree. No problem here HOG USGS on the bridge again When you go against the grain - and the traffic. A truckload of critters Tractor in the mornin...

 

  At the September 12th Columbia Borough Council meeting, resident Frank Doutrich criticized the behavior of a borough official (Mayor Leo Lutz) towards a citizen who questioned the borough's response to the August 5th shots fired incident at 3rd & Cherry Streets. Doutrich noted the borough's rules of civility and decorum for public meetings were not enforced and that council does not understand what the rules are. The borough's rules of civility and decorum for public meetings "One of the people in the audience got up and made some statements and then one of the elected officials just, absolutely just laid him in the ground," Doutrich said, referring to a verbal exchange at a previous meeting. "Which council - all sit there - didn't say a word. That's why I think you don't know the rules." Council President Heather Zink replied: "Unfortunately, that person made a personal attack, and it was responded to." "In that manner?...