School auction expands family’s home

COLUMBIA — Fireworks and big holes in the ground. That is 13-year-old Zach Baldwin’s plan for property his parents bought at the Columbia Public Schools’ auction Tuesday. But his mother, Angela Baldwin, has different plans for the lot with an old schoolhouse on it. Baldwin and her husband, Joseph, purchased the 0.79-acre lot at Wade School and Akeman Bridge roads for $20,000. They had been eyeing the property since they moved into the neighborhood more than 10 years ago.