Help on accident

I guess it is a safety issue

I posted last week or the week before a safety issue involving a utility pole in the area of Third and Locust street. The partial pole was hanging from a newly installed pole. Apparently, Columbia Borough also thinks it is now a safety issue as the parking spot by the pole is now blocked off. It went up Friday afternoon.

Locust is condemned

The recently opened and renovated Hotel Locust, which held a grand re-opening over the weekend featuring an Elvis impersonator, has been condemned by the borough.
Sometime Saturday evening into Sunday morning, a window ledge on the fourth floor came loose and crashed down through the canopy onto the sidewalk. No one was hurt.

Weekly Columbia police reports

TRAVIS L. SHORT, AGE 26, OF LANCASTER, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERATING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED ON ROUTE 30 EAST ON RAMP AT ROUTE 441, JULY 29.

HORACE MICHAEL REEVES, AGE 53, OF MOUNT JOY, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING WHILE OPERAING PRIVILEGE IS SUSPENDED OR REVOKED; OPERATING ON PUBLIC ROADWAY WITHOUT VALID INSURANCE; AND FOR REGISTRATION  AND CERTIFICATION OF TITLE REQUIRED, ON POPLAR STREET. HE WAS THEN DETAINED FOR A WARRANT OUT OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, JULY 29.

CHRISTOPHER ESTEP, AGE 30, OF MARIETTA, WAS CITED FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT THIRD AND CHESTNUT STREETS, JULY 30.

VICTOR EMILIO VELEZ-FORES, AGE 36, OF LEBANON, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AT THIRD  AND LINDEN STREETS, JULY 31.

CHAD DANIEL RAPP, AGE 30, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATE OF TITLE REQUIRED, ON NORTH THIRD STREET, AUG. 2.

WILLIAM RALEIGH FIDLER, AGE 33, OF KANSAS, WAS CITED FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES ON SOUTH THIRD STREET, AUG. 2.
FIDLER DROVE HIS TRACTOR & TRAILER DOWN SOUTH THIRD STREET AND STRUCK TWO PARKED VEHICLES. VEHICLES WERE OWNED BY WAYNE ACKERMAN AND MAXINE BETANCOURT AND CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH.

BOTH VEHICLES RECEIVED MODERATE DAMAGES. THIS AREA IS POSTED THAT NO COMMERICIAL VEHICLES, SUCH AS TRACTOR AND TRAILERS, ARE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL THERE. POLICE HAD TO ASSIST FIDLER IN BACKING UP SOUTH THIRD STREET TO LOCUST STREET.

NAGWAN N. AYOUB, AGE 31, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY IN THE 100 BLOCK OF SOUTH THIRD STREET, AUG. 2.

CHRISTOPHER TIRADO, AGE 28, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOT DISORDERLY CONDUCT, FOR AN INCIDENT AT FOURTH AND LOCUST STREETS, WHERE HE CHASED A FEMALE AND THEN GRABBED HER AROUND THE NECK, CAUSING SEVERAL PERSONS TO CALL 911, AUG. 5.

TERRY BRADFORD FARLEY, AGE 39, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR HARASSMENT IN THE 100 BLOCK OF SOUTH FIFTH STREET, AUG. 6.

ALYSSA STAR TORRES, AGE 21, OF COLUMBIA, WAS CITED FOR OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES AT THIRD AND LINDEN STREETS, AUG 6.

A 13 YEAR OLD WRIGHTSVILLE FEMALE WAS CITED FOR CURFEW IN THE 300 BLOCK OF CHESTNUT STREET, AUG. 6.

Any thoughts?

Here is a story from PennLive, about Middletown Borough Council not wanting to be contacted: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/08/middletown_council_members_kee.html

Scenes today at River Park

CBAA to hold yard sale

The Columbia Boys Athletic Association is holding its 1st Annual Fall Yard Sale and Flea Market, Saturday, Sept. 18. If you would like a 20x20 stand for $20, please contact Robin Ortman at 717-314-2714 by September 10. Spaces under the pavilion can be secured on a first come first serve basis. No food vendors please. The concession stand will be open and all proceeds will benefit the Columbia Boys Athletic Association. September 19 has been selected as a rain date.

This week's happenings and more

Here are a list of upcoming events:

Monday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Columbia Borough Council meeting, 308 Locust St.
Thursday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m., Columbia School Board Committee of the Whole meeting, 200 North Fifth St.
Saturday, Aug. 14, 9-11:30 a.m., town canvass for the Columbia High School football program.
Saturday, Aug. 14, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Holy Trinity Chicken Barbecue, picked up at the church or the Susquehanna Fire Company.
Saturday, Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m., SVCC Night at the Lancaster Barnstormers, for tickets call 684-5249.