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Busy Overnight Stretch for Lancaster County Emergency Crews: Trail Rescue, Bridge Response, and Route 30 Crashes

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Columbia/Marietta/West Hempfield Township, PA — Emergency responders across Lancaster County handled a string of incidents from Saturday evening into early Sunday morning, according to publicly broadcast dispatch audio, including a technical rescue along a riverside trail, a report of a person in distress on a bridge, and a chain of crashes that shut down part of Route 30. Note: This account is based on scanner/dispatch radio traffic captured through a public dispatch-audio app. It has not been verified against official incident reports and details may be incomplete or change as more information becomes available. Wheelchair user injured after 30-foot fall from trail Around 4:40 p.m. Saturday, crews were dispatched to the NW River Trail in Marietta for what radio traffic described as a possible environmental or technical rescue. According to the transmissions, a person using a wheelchair went off the trail and down a ditch roughly 30 feet, sustaining a head laceration and bleeding. Mul...

About Town — September 6, 2026

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Photos of Columbia, PA Week ending 9/6/26 Click on photos to see larger, sharper images. JOE LINTNER | COLUMBIA SPY The Susquehanna River Creative Conspiracy placed a painted piano at Coffee & Cream (above) and another at Columbia Crossing.  Letters at Art Printing Flag at the Samuel Miller Mansion  One side completed at Angry, Young and Poor  Haitian Maranatha Bible Church  It's time for this to come down. The public works crew will need to mow some of the former McGinness airfield to prepare for fireworks to be held there on Saturday, September 26. Newly installed at 15th & Manor — but by whom? And why at a "no outlet"? The Christmas stuff is out already at the Re-Uzit Shop.  Cops on duty Amtrak on the tracks  A new sign? Chairs for sale at Tollbooth Antiques  Either the inlet is too high, or the puddle is too low.  Demolition is slowly underway.  ***************** Rails along Heritage Drive  New sign at 5th & Locust  ...

A birthday, a bridge, and a creative conspiracy

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https://columbiacourier.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-birthday-bridge-and-creative.html?m=1

Native Trees Available to Columbia residents| TownLively

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Suspect in July 4 shooting that injured woman in Columbia has case proceed to trial

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Columbia mayor weighs changes after pair of crashes in August - WGAL

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Lawmakers wrestle with the proliferation of e-scooters on Pa. roadways • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

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