Engineer’s office to apply for funds for slip repair along Steubenville Pike Road

July 31, 2026

LISBON — The Columbiana County Engineer’s Office plans to apply for funds to repair an area along Steubenville Pike Road near Highlandtown Lake where the road’s starting to slip. “We’ve been battling it a long time,” Chief Deputy Highway Engineer Bill Helscel said. On Wednesday, the county commissioners gave permission for county Engineer Bert Dawson to sign applications and related forms for the Ohio Public Works Commission Emergency Funding Program for the emergency slip repair. Helscel said the road is starting to slip away and each year they’ve been putting down ...

Columbiana officials still working on design for new city hall

July 31, 2026

COLUMBIANA — City officials are still working on the design for the new City Hall building. During the July City Council meeting City Manager Lance Willard said they met with Strollo Architects and Howells and Baird Engineering to go over several revisions on the design. “We hope to hear back from environmental planning and design soon so we can get the new zoning district proposal on its way,” he said. The city is moving its offices to the former #1 Cochran Chevrolet Cadillac dealership on East Railroad Street. Currently, City Hall and city offices are located at 28 W. ...

State funds demolition of East Liverpool, Salineville and Wellsville dilapidated structures

July 31, 2026

EAST LIVERPOOL — The Columbiana County Land Reutilization Corp. (The Columbiana County land bank) has been awarded $230,000 in the latest round of funding from the Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program to demolish 20 dilapidated structures in three county municipalities. Columbiana County is one of the 73 out of Ohio’s 88 counties to receive a portion of the $11.9 million grant, which had $230,000 reserved for each one of the 88 counties. The operating budget for Ohio allots $21.5 million every fiscal year to aid communities in demolishing dilapidated ...

Wellsville Board of Education approves new communication software

July 31, 2026

WELLSVILLE — The Wellsville school board Monday approved new software to communicate with parents. The board approved the use of Parent Square as the district’s new communication software. Parent Square will be used during the 2026-2027 school year by all district staff members to communicate with parents. In other business, the board approved the financial report, transfers and modifications of funds and then and now certificates during the finance portion of the meeting. The board also approved the revised temporary appropriations and certificate of resources for fiscal year ...

Driver accused of fleeing fatal pedestrian crash arraigned

July 31, 2026

LISBON — The driver accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian and then fleeing the scene in East Liverpool on Feb. 4 entered a not guilty plea during arraignment Thursday on multiple counts. Tracy C. Quimby, 34, last known address Jackman Street, East Liverpool, also with an address in ...

Salem parks commission discusses employee wages update

July 31, 2026

SALEM — The parks commission discussed updates to employee wages in its July meeting. Following an executive session for the discussion of employee wages the commissioners voted unanimously to adjust the pay scale for the department’s receptionist position, currently held by Diana Harshman, from the current rage of $11 to $14 per hour, to $12 to $16 per hour. The increase will still need to receive approval from the city council as an update to the city’s wage ordinance. The commissioners initially discussed increasing Laborers Bobby Hillman and Kaden Blair’s wages to ...