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84-year-old woman missing in Columbiana

COLUMBIANA (WKBN) — The Columbiana Police Department has issued an alert for a missing 84-year-old woman. Shirley Johns drove away from her Columbiana residence at noon Tuesday and hasn’t returned. She is white, 5 feet and 5 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds and has blonde hair and green ...

On the calendar

WED/4-15 Canfield South Range school board, 6 p.m., K-12 Building County Columbiana County commissioners, meeting, 9 a.m., downtown courthouse, Lisbon. Columbiana County Park Records Commission, 10 a.m., auditor’s conference room Columbiana County Parks Commission, meeting, 11:30 ...

Timothy Seaman at the Dale Shaffer Research Library

SALEM — Dulci-More: Folk & Traditional Musicians will host acoustic soloist Timothy Seaman at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Meeting Room of the Dale Shaffer Research Library of the Salem Historical Society, 239 S. Lundy Ave. Parking is available in the municipal lot across Lundy. The building ...

Penn View Choir & Symphonic Ensemble

Salem Bible Methodist Church, 1647 N. Ellsworth Ave., will host the Penn View Choir & Symphonic Ensemble at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. For information call Rev. David Crosley at 812-675-1549. (Submitted photo)

2026 Tom Holden Memorial Scholarship contest winners

YOUNGSTOWN — The WKBN 27 Caring for Our Community campaign has named the winners of the  2026 Tom Holden Memorial Scholarship contest. A total of 230 students from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, and Mercer counties wrote commercials for local nonprofit organizations. The winning script ...

Chief McKenzie speaks

The Calcutta Rotary Club met Thursday at the Peter Metrovich Community Center. St. Clair Township Chief of Police Brian McKenzie was the guest speaker. McKenzie spoke about the challenges his department is currently seeing as well as the upcoming police levy in St. Clair Township. Pictured with ...

84-year-old woman missing in Columbiana

COLUMBIANA (WKBN) — The Columbiana Police Department has issued an alert for a missing 84-year-old woman. Shirley Johns drove away from her Columbiana residence at noon Tuesday and hasn't returned. She is white, 5 feet and 5 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds and has blonde hair and green ...

Former substitute teacher gets over 8 years in prison for child porn

LISBON —A former Columbiana County substitute teacher and paraprofessional accused of possessing videos depicting minors engaged in sex acts is on his way to prison for more than eight and a half years after facing sentencing Monday. John M. McFarland, 43, Chesapeake, Va., formerly ...

East Liverpool CIC OKs use of property for flag football practice

EAST LIVERPOOL – The East Liverpool Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) voted during Thursday’s full board meeting to allow the East Liverpool Flag Football League to use CIC owned property on Maryland Avenue for practice. The property is at 500 Maryland, which is the former site of ...

Pretrial set for woman who threatened to blow up Leetonia school campus

LISBON — A pretrial was set at 9:15 a.m. June 22 for Erin M. McGuire, the woman accused of threatening to blow up the Leetonia K-12 school in January. McGuire, 37, Chestnut Street, Leetonia, had her case transferred back to Columbiana County Municipal Court after the county Grand Jury ...