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MCCTC students complete Cybersecurity Essentials training

CANFIELD — The Mahoning County Career and Technical Center (MCCTC) has completed a microcredential training program funded for workforce development by the Ohio Department of Development for $498,000, resulting in more than 166 Ohioans completing the Cybersecurity Essentials certification ...

Choose to Lose Group meets, learns about foods that fight flu

Choose To Lose Group met at Boyce Church on Feb. 3, with Secretary Pam Fouse presiding. The meeting opened up with the pledge of allegiance followed by the CTLG roll call. Pam Fouse gave the secretary’s report and Cassie Stephens gave the treasurer’s report. Both were approved as ...

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CCPA to administer Hanoverton sewer project

LISBON — Some Hanoverton residents will get help tapping into the new Hanoverton sanitary sewer system through a grant secured from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, with the Columbiana County Port Authority set to administer the tap-in project. The CCPA Board approved a resolution ...

Testimony continues in trial of murdered Leetonia teacher

LISBON — Witnesses in the aggravated murder trial for William P. Long Jr. talked about evidence and whereabouts during testimony Thursday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court. The whereabouts involved a revolver owned by Long and of Long himself on Nov. 29, 2023, the day investigators ...

Contract for ELCH removes potential employee strike

EAST LIVERPOOL — The outcome of Thursday’s meeting between East Liverpool City Hospital and SEIU District 1199, the union for hospital employees, was a ratified contract, which means employees avoid a potential strike. Chrissy Lewis SEIU, District 1199 union representative for hospital ...

Talks continue in Wellsville over dispatching services

WELLSVILLE- During the first public speaking portion at the Tuesday’s Wellsville Village Council meeting, Fire Chief Jarrod Grimm, Wellsville Volunteer Fire Department asked the council members why the volunteer firefighters who get paid per call for calls responded to within the village were ...

East Liverpool man dies after being struck by car

EAST LIVERPOOL — Braidy C. Ingram, East Liverpool, died from injuries sustained when he was hit by a car along Bradshaw Avenue Wednesday evening.  Ingram was transported from the scene to East Liverpool City Hospital, where he was deceased about an hour after being struck.  According to ...

Plow versus pedestrian incident still under investigation

LISBON — No new information is available about an early Tuesday morning snowplow versus pedestrian crash in the Rogers area that sent one person to the hospital. According to a Lisbon post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the encounter occurred around 6 a.m. on state Route 7. An unnamed ...

Lisbon water interruption today

LISBON — Lisbon Mayor Peter Wilson announced there will be short water interruption today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to allow the water department to repair a leak near the intersection of South Beaver Street and West Washington Street. The affected areas include South Beaver Street between West ...