Saturday, April 30, 2016

About Town

Columbia Plaza parking lot this morning.

 Words of wisdom

 Out for a walk

 This starling was sitting on a fence in Avenue H.

 Unafraid of the camera, he started to sing.

 He may have thought he was auditioning for American Idol.

 Afterward, he stopped and looked, as if to ask, "How'd I do, folks?"

 Yardwork at the former Cookman Church at Sixth and Chestnut

 He's been metal-detecting around town a lot lately.
Here he is in Locust Street Park.

 Hangin' with the goyles. The gargoyles, that is.
(Global Time Wizard, 500 block of Locust)

 Pit lovers assure us that it's not the breed, it's how they're raised.

 Door numbers - well, that's a start.  Now fix the rest of the building.
(North Second and Locust)

 Lined up and ready to go.  Yard waste pickup began April 4.

Delusions of grandeur

Then the king had one more question of the child: "How many seconds are there in eternity?"

And the boy replied: "In the hinterlands of Pomerania, there is a mountain made of the hardest diamond. It's one hour deep into the earth, one hour up toward the sky, one hour long and one hour wide. To this mountain comes a little bird, once every hundred years, to sharpen its beak."

"And when the bird has worn away the whole mountain, the first second of eternity will have passed."

2 charged with stealing guns, home break-in in Columbia

Columbia Borough police have charged a Columbia man and a Marietta man for breaking into a home in the borough and stealing four guns and other items on the morning of April 29.

MORE:
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/charged-with-stealing-guns-home-break-in-in-columbia/article_256d707c-0ec6-11e6-b0c9-672ae92d2b48.html

Friday, April 29, 2016

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Officer attacked by aggressive dogs - one dog is shot


According to Columbia Borough Police, on April 28, 2016 at approximately 10 a.m. the Columbia Borough Police Department was dispatched to a rear yard of a residence in the 100 block of South Fifth Street for a report of two aggressive dogs running at large in the area. The caller told the dispatcher that he had attempted to exit a vehicle several times and the dogs "chased" him back into the vehicle.

A Columbia Officer arrived on scene and walked towards the caller's vehicle when two dogs ran at the officer as he approached. The officer attempted to retreat, and the dogs chased the officer. When the dogs closed in on the officer, he pulled his service weapon and fired at the first dog as it was lunging at him. Both dogs stopped and retreated. The uninjured dog returned a short time later and started to approach the officer again. The dog then ran into a break in a fence a few yards down. 

Several officers responded to canvass the area. The owner of the dog was located. The injured dog was located in the 100 block of South Third Street on a porch. It had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. 

The injured dog was taken to a local veterinarian by the owner and did not survive the incident. Columbia Police are completing their investigation into any PA Dog Law violations.

Columbia man jailed up to 40 years for sex abuse of young girl

                     Nickalaus Stoutzenberger
A Columbia man will serve up to 40 years in prison for sex abuse of a young girl.
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Columbia man charged in DUI related hit and run crash

Gerard Wright


Columbia man charged in DUI related hit and run crash:
http://fox43.com/2016/04/26/columbia-man-charged-in-dui-related-hit-and-run-crash/