Emergency declaration, curfew lifted after storms hit Columbia Borough

Emergency declaration, curfew lifted after storms hit Columbia Borough

Columbia officials lifted the borough’s emergency proclamation and curfew at noon Friday following a severe storm that caused part of the Keystone Building to collapse onto a neighboring ceramics business.

Storm’s aftermath leaves Columbia to pick up the pieces

The task of cleaning up damage from a severe storm that tore through Columbia the night before got underway in earnest on Friday, but for those most directly affected the work of putting their lives back together barely began.