Sunday, May 26, 2024

About Town - May 26, 2024

This week's photos of Columbia

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The ice cream truck is making its rounds.

Out for a walk

A vehicle backed into a utility pole at Smith's Hotel.
This is the result.

It's that time again.

Columbia's firehouse
(CBFD 80)









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An eagle wasn't available for the top of the flagpole, so this sparrow filled in.

The docks are in.

A rusty flag (waving in the wind)?

Mourning dove in the afternoon

An ornate cellar window grate on the 200 block of Locust

Bunting for Memorial Day

A knuckleheaded cherub

That's one way to transport your weeds.

Roses

X marks the spot

A cloud feather in the sky

He supposedly spent a night in the Columbia dungeon.

Flow the Rock Snake is back.

In August of 2023, Flow looked like this.

A month later, Flow looked like this.

Columbia, a "model" town

Green light to promote mental health awareness month, appropriately enough at borough hall

Graffiti on the trail

60 years ago this was a storage building (?) for PP&L

Flying high

Fairly new arrivals

At the Chua Phap Hoa Buddhist Temple at South Second and Cherry

Double A

Modern art is trash.

Camouflaged!

Revealed!

Time for Plan B!

Free piano on North 3rd

The former Manor Street School, now apartments




The building is now managed by The Apartment Gallery


Blue Rock, Ephrata, and Lancaster City trained at River Park this morning.











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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

[LNP | LancasterOnline] Columbia Sunshine Act investigation closes, raising questions about open meetings law [Lancaster Watchdog]


So when the borough's historic architectural review board, planning commission and zoning hearing board neglected to post a few agendas before scheduled meetings in November, [Joe] Lintner noticed. The state's transparency and open meetings law, the Sunshine Act, requires agendas to be posted 24 hours in advance of a meeting so residents know what to expect.

It didn't take long for Lintner to call the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office to report what he believed was a Sunshine Act violation. The borough promises transparency, he said, and it did not feel like leaders were delivering.
MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-sunshine-act-investigation-closes-raising-questions-about-open-meetings-law-lancaster-watchdog/article_4cbf92b6-17ac-11ef-a6b1-832f39a0e606.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share 

VEHICLE THEFT - 100 BLOCK OF SOUTH FIFTH STREET | Columbia Borough Police Department


Columbia’s Watch & Clock Museum to Honor Our Heroes on 4th Friday


As part of its new Community Cultural Program, the National Watch & Clock Museum is excited to participate in Columbia’s 4th Friday program. 

On May 24 the theme is Honoring Our Heroes, and the Museum will host a presentation on “The War-Winning History of the Hamilton Watch Co.” by Michael Schwartz, associate editor of Museum publications. 

Join us this Friday from 5:00 to 5:30 pm to learn how this famous Lancaster company pushed the boundaries of technology and manufacturing to make some of the devices that helped the Allies win the war.

Attendees are welcome to leave their cars parked on our lot as they visit other businesses in downtown Columbia.