COLUMBIA SPY

Pour Mans Brewing , 15 Third St., Columbia, Feb. 22. Pass . Food facility has an employee that has taken food safety training program; however, the food safety program was not an ANSI/CFP-accredited certified food manager program. Andy's Market Inc ., 310 11th St., Columbia, complaint, Feb. 21. Pass . No violations.

Columbia Middle School sixth-grader Ayisha Beausejour won a statewide essay contest for Black History Month. Ayisha's essay highlighting the legacy of Black leaders such as Ruby Bridges and Martin Luther King Jr. was selected from five submissions across the state. She won a certificate of achievement for the accomplishment. Black History Month means "celebrating all the great things Black people have done and learning what they have gone through," Ayisha wrote in her essay. Ayisha's teacher, Amy Wright, encouraged her and her peers to participate in the contest. "Ayisha's essay is a testament to her hard work and passion for learning," Wright said. "She has a unique ability to connect the past to the present, while her words remind us why Black History Month is so important." MORE: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-middle-school-sixth-grader-wins-statewide-black-history-month-essay-contest/article_4267fbe0-f51f-11ef-9384-5b020859...

Lutz: “Sell ‘em a blank slate. Put the shingle out, and sell it." [Columbia Spy file photo] The fate of the former McGinness airport property remains “up in the air.” Columbia Borough Council still doesn't have a definite plan for the site, although several options are on the table. Council even discussed leaving the property a “blank slate” for potential developers, but one thing's almost certain: The drones aren't coming. DR1, the drone company that council had hoped would anchor the property didn't receive the grant it was seeking. The grant, potentially worth millions, was awarded elsewhere, according to borough engineer Derek Rinaldo. That failure leaves the door open to other possibilities, including allowing manufacturers and distributors to locate there. Before anything happens, however, the ground must be remediated to remove any contamination or objects buried beneath the surface. On Tuesday, Jason Best of ELA Group and Rinaldo provided council with upda...

JOHN DUFFY | FOR LNP | LANCASTERONLINE MESA is not receiving reimbursements from nonmember municipalities when it responds to ambulance calls. These include Mount Joy and Columbia boroughs, as well as Rapho and West Hempfield townships — areas that chose not to participate in the authority and have benefited from an excess of MESA service calls. In past discussions, elected officials in MESA member municipalities has called the imbalance a theft of services. At a Jan. 29 meeting of northwest county elected officials, it was agreed that letters from member municipalities was a logical next step. Invoices from MESA and face-to-face meetings have yielded no results. "Both of these are soft. We need to go harder," said Elizabethtown Mayor Chuck Mummert about the two versions of the draft letter. Council member Andrew Schoenberger said the members should offer steps for the nonmember municipalities to either pay MESA back or join the authority, otherwise they're going to conti...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Monday that $2.1 billion in federal funding to Pennsylvania has been restored. It comes less than two weeks after the governor filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to challenge a freeze of the federal funding. At the time, state agencies were unable to access $1.2 billion in federal funding, while an additional $900 million was under review. MORE: https://www.wgal.com/article/gov-josh-shapiro-says-federal-funds-to-pennsylvania-have-been-unfrozen/63906559  

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Valley View Capital LLC conveyed 436 N. Fourth St. to Gebremariam Menen Kidane for $215,000.