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When: Columbia Borough Council meeting, May 4. What happened: Council members discussed prioritizing projects and learned that the police department failed to receive an $80,000 grant for body cameras. Also, the borough plans to sell its unused trolley. Body cameras: The police department failed to receive a grant for 22 body cameras, a server, software and annual maintenance. The department doesn’t know why it didn’t get the money. “We’re still looking into it,” said Jack Brommer, Columbia’s police chief, after the meeting. “I can't believe that with the mo...

When: Columbia Borough Council meeting, April 27.

Businesses have begun calling Columbia Borough for more information about its proposed light-industrial business park even though the borough has yet to purchase the land. The borough recently unveiled a timeline that would have it buy in July the 58-acre former McGinness airfield property near Manor, South Ninth and South 12th streets. Plans are to develop about 40 acres into an innovation and technology campus. The rest of the space is expected to be used for a hiking trail through a nature preserve and a children’s playground. Construction, which could begin in 2022, hinges on the bor...

After three years sitting empty, the Columbia Market House will be re-opening next month.  The historic market, which dates back to 1869, will re-open on Saturday, May 29 featuring 19 local vendors and a full-service restaurant, Gypsy Kitchen. "We're bringing life back to this building for the community," market manager Kelsey Miller said.  Miller, who doubles as the healthy communities program manager at CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health, will oversee daily operations at the market. CHI St. Joseph Children’s Health and the Columbia Borough have partnered together to breathe new life in...

A renovated Columbia Market House featuring more than a dozen vendors and an anchor restaurant will reopen Memorial Day weekend. Borough officials hope the updated market house and other projects including a new hotel, a mixed-use apartment and retail complex, and the redevelopment of several acres along the Susquehanna River will provide a much-needed boost to the local economy. “We are very excited about the market opening soon,” Mayor Leo Lutz said. “We had anticipated that if we put some effort and got things moving, folks would notice that things are indeed happening in Co...