One of the councillors has been railing against the unseen maintenance expenses that would be coming at the River Park. Appears the councillor’s sometime tirades may have some accuracy. Or maybe not.

The beautiful new Columbia Crossings building is loaded with unattractive spider webs loaded with victims. Visitors to the structure will not be impressed with the lack of attention and maintenance.

So if the borough doesn’t maintain the building and allows visitors to see the lack of attention to periodic eradication of spider webs in the structure and on the light and spy camera standards, the borough will will not spend money. If the borough does decide to keep up the building, it will add to labor costs, so the councillor will have been on target.

The flotsam that’s accumulated by one of the floating docks, too, presents the same issue. Clean it or let it go. It depends on the message that the borough wants to present to park visitors.

Noticed these visitors at the Park on Sunday afternoon. But they did not use any of the very scarce parking spaces in the park.

Nice to see the pavilion being used; but a pressing issue turns up when Columbia Crossing visitors, pavilion guests and others look for parking.

Parking on the grassy area is for overflow parking vehicles with trailers. The reality of having your cake and eating it too is that the majority of parking spaces at the River Park, aka boat launch or marina, are for vehicles with trailers. Visitors to the park, well, you’re on your own.

Visitors may have to exercise their creative expertise and park along the access road to the grassy area behind the gated access point to the huge grassy area just beyond the kayak rental place. But once they find a parking space, the majesty of the River or the breathtaking splendor of the Bridge provides truly awesome photo opportunities.