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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Will Columbia Borough School Board part ways with Superintendent Tom Strickler?
Columbia Borough School Superintendent
Tom Strickler
Tom Strickler
The Columbia Borough School Board is expected to vote Thursday night on whether to part ways with a superintendent who has been a polarizing figure from the time he was hired.
According to a meeting agenda, the board will vote either to replace Tom Strickler when his contract expires in December or retain him for an additional three to five years.
Strickler, who became superintendent in January 2018, said in a phone interview Wednesday that he was surprised to see the item on the agenda. Based on conversations he's had with the board, Strickler said, he was expecting a contract extension of at least four years.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Agenda - Columbia Borough School Board Meeting - May 21, 2020
Changes in Locust Street apartment building project to be considered at May 20 HARB meeting
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The photo of the notice shown above recently appeared at 134 Locust Street, a vacant lot at the intersection of Locust Street and Bank Avenue. The notice announces a May 20 meeting of Columbia Borough's Historic Architectural Review Board (HARB) to consider a proposed change to the property. The notice does not specify a time or address for the meeting, although HARB meetings are typically held at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of the month at the municipal building (308 Locust Street). No agenda or other information about the meeting appears on the Columbia Borough website or Facebook page, except for a legal advertisement dated 12/26/19 HERE.
The property in question is owned by Eberly Myers LLC (now 789 Main Street LLC), which had planned to construct a 4-story, 33-unit apartment building there before the project was postponed, reportedly due to a lack of funding. The company had requested $400,000 for the project from the borough's now-defunct revolving loan fund. At the borough's October 22, 2018 Finance Committee meeting, Benjamin Myers of Eberly Myers requested an increase from the original $400,000 to $650,000 and a change in terms for interest and principal payments due to increased costs of the project from $4 million to $4.8 million. The loan request was subsequently denied.
The company, which has now apparently obtained funding, is proposing changes in materials and design for the project, in a marked departure from the original plan. Those changes will be the subject of discussion at the May 20 meeting. HARB green-lighted the original design at its August 16, 2017 meeting by approving "Certificates of Appropriateness" for demolition and new construction.
Previously proposed and approved design for the building
Monday, May 18, 2020
Sunday, May 17, 2020
About Town 5/17/2020
This week's photos of Columbia
Floyd Landis and passenger out for a spin
Rollin' on down the road
Topaz Martofel's Mother's Day balloon display at Park Elementary
3 claimants to the same tree -
Call the lawyers!
High and dry down by the river
The Veterans Memorial Bridge was closed briefly this week due to a vehicle accident in Wrightsville.
Speed racer on Locust
More signs of the times
When your Stars and Stripes become Stars and STRIPS
Just tie one of the strips to the pole.
In this case, someone might need to call.
(By the way, does anyone "dial" anymore?)
Getting wired at Borough Hall
Probably not a congregant
Friendly passenger
Work continues at the Columbia Market House.
Here's a temporarily boarded-up doorway.
Here are some boarded-up windows.
(As seen from the first block of Avenue H)
Here's one that should be boarded up at the former Amvets building.
Things aren't looking too good in there.
Break time on the 500 block of Manor
The objective is to get from point A to point B, no matter the means.
OK, here are some pretty flowers.
Heron sighting over the National Watch & Clock Museum
A good idea that was carried out well. All utility poles should look like this.
Sidewalk seating on South 4th -
Take a load off.
Stop signs take years to develop character.
Forgotten building?
(Avenue N)
There's even a see-through roof.
Here's a closer look.
FREEFORM
?
The entrance to The Bear's Inn behind Union Street
A closer look
The former Shawnee Fire Company
Instituted 1874
Rebuilt 1883
Time for some TLC?
Those are some big numbers.
Renovations in Pleasant Avenue
A "good morning" from a cat that's more polite than some people.
Quarantine affects each of us differently.
Construction at Columbia Mini-Storage
Four Wheel Drive
Get it?
They'll do it every time.
Bats have gotten a lot of bad press lately. Maybe this one couldn't bear the strain.
Road and sidewalk work on South 2nd -
Unfortunately, the brick sidewalk has been removed.
Columbia Strong
A reader submitted this 1918 school tax notice. The numbers speak for themselves.
Those were the days.
Washing the Mercedes
Congratulations 2020 Seniors!
Sign here on the 1300 block of Manor Street
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