227 Mill Street, Columbia, PA

A house for $15,000? Yep, Maybe! There are “investment” houses around the county listed at Auction.com and it’s possible to get a low price property here … but you have to know how to do it.

An eye-opening account for this property is the HomeDisclosure.com Report. This report summarizes the ALERTS – CONCERNS and BENEFITS of the property and the community. Most distressing is the school report which assigns this assessment: D School Rating.

That quaint, out-of-the-way place …

On a long drive back from a trip yesterday, we fantasized about the $700,000,000 Powerball prize and wondered whether we should stop in one of the small, out-of-the-way western Pennsylvania small towns to buy Powerball tickets.

That’s exactly the kind of place where the winning “$758.7 million Powerball jackpot (was) won in Mass.”

Holey moley, with that kind of financial cushion, you can buy most small towns, lock, stock and barrel.

So “Lottery gets it wrong; $758.7m jackpot won in Chicopee, not Watertown.”

“How should we protest neo-Nazis? Lessons from German history” – The Conversation

“We’re not nazis” – PennLive

The Press in the Third Reich | Hitler didn’t like the press, either, until he took over all the newspapers.

Columbia Borough – Seasonal Highway Worker

Columbia Borough School District – Employment Opportunities

“Judge gives Atlantic Sunrise pipeline builder immediate possession of last 5 holdout properties” – Lancaster Online

News items from today’s LNP- Always Lancaster

Property Tax Abatement: “Lancaster County’s state Sens. Ryan Aument, of Landisville, and Scott Martin, of Martic Township, who are cosponsors of SB76, will discuss the plan and other options during a public forum Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. at Pequea Valley High School, 4033 E. Newport Road, Kinzers.”

Blighted properties: Two Columbia properties, 20 South Fifth Street and 259 South Fifth Street, are listed in a Lancaster County Vacant Property Reinvestment Board legal notice

It is a Fourth Friday week and the Columbia Market House got an Lancaster Online article about its attraction, United Artists Behind Bars.

Go figure: “Barack Obama was called the ‘best gun salesman on the planet’. But with Trump in the White House, gun companies’ sales are down, and profits are falling.” – The Guardian