COLUMBIA SPY

  (Click to enlarge) The flyer shown above and an accompanying letter (the text of which is shown below) were distributed to downtown businesses recently: Columbia Park Rangers Since 2001 August, 2025 Dear Business Owner and Community Partner: Each year, the Columbia Park Rangers take pride in honoring our nation by placing American flags along the streets of our town on key national holidays. These displays bring our community together in a visible celebration of patriotism and unity. We invite you to be a part of this tradition by subscribing to our Flag Project . With your annual subscription of twenty dollars ($2O.OO) per flag, we will display beautiful, American flags in town on the thirteen recognized holidays. Specifically, we are providing businesses and community organizations an opportunity to sponsor one ornmore flags in the 100-400 blocks of Locust Street and the 100 block of N. 3rd St. Businesses are invited to sponsor a flag in front of or near their place of business...

  Prince Street Cafe - Columbia, 301 Walnut St., Columbia, Aug. 21. Pass . Food facility has an original certificate posted, but the location is not conspicuous for public viewing.

  The meeting packet is  HERE .

Caelan Natrell Brown  [Columbia Borough Police Department] JACK PANYARD | LNP Staff Writer One of three people charged in a 2024 Columbia shooting over a missing cellphone pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to up to five years in state prison. Caelan Natrell Brown, 19, of Columbia, entered a plea deal before Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth for his role in the Nov. 1, 2024 incident where he and two other people were accused of shooting into an occupied house. Eleven charges were dropped as part of the plea deal including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. Brown pleaded guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy, possession of a firearm with an altered manufacturer number, receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm without a license and possession of a firearm. Ashworth sentenced Brown to two to five years in state prison. Police said Brown, J'vian Mendez-Gonzalez, 19, of Lancaster, and Isaiah Diaz, 21, of Columbia, all shot at the house on the 400 block o...

The estate of Julie Hoak conveyed 328 Walnut St. to Jamie Anderson for $150,000. Daniel K. Mullins conveyed 114 Walnut St. to Walter E. Ali for $205,000.

  This week's photos of Columbia   Click on photos to see larger, sharper images.  JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY  It was Stu Huggens' turn to perform downtown.  Vintage baseball games were held at Janson Park on Saturday.  ***************** Rumor has it that Columbia might be getting a used tire outlet.  Here's Jesse the Computer Guy's contact info. One of two cherubs at the former Masonic center on Locust Street.  Here's the other one. Here's a $79 angel with a cracked jaw at the Re-Uzit Shop, possibly from a brawl. (This is Columbia, after all.) More progress at the innovation park site This device sets the height of the blades/shovels on the excavation equipment, according to a worker on site.  There's also a chipper on site. These are the remains of the trees that were taken down. So are these mulch piles. ***************** This is the side of a trailer whose driver stopped on the highway for several minutes to check for directions while blo...