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Southern Local Homecoming

Southern Local crowned their 2026 winter Homecoming royalty at the Weirton Madonna boys basketball game Tuesday. Winning the titles are King Zac Mayfield and Queen Haylee Kellogg. (Photo by Jimmy Joe Savage)

Leetonia council approves telecommunications contract

LEETONIA — The village is the newest client of an Austintown-based company specializing in telecommunication services. During a special meeting held Monday, council approved a contract with Team Office Technologies for village phone, printer and IT services. According to assistant village ...

Columbiana Planning Commission considers replat and site plan reviews

COLUMBIANA — The city’s planning commission met Tuesday night to consider one replat and four site plan reviews. Member Dylan Fletcher was absent as he had a meeting conflict. Fletcher was elected as a Columbiana school board member in November, taking his seat in January. Columbiana ...

Newton Falls man convicted in sex for hire case files appeal

LISBON — A Newton Falls man convicted in a sex for hire case filed an appeal to challenge the outcome of his case. Eric C. Knoch, 55, was fined $800 and given a suspended 180-day jail term last month for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools, with the sentence in Columbiana ...

Seventh grader repeats as Leetonia’s top speller

LEETONIA — For two years in a row, seventh-grade student Xaven Barr claimed the Leetonia district spelling bee championship.  Barr bested 24 other contestants by correctly spelling “suburbia.” Filling the other three spots to advance with Barr to the Columbiana County Spelling Bee in ...

Investigation continues into plow striking pedestrian

LISBON — A pedestrian-snow plow crash on state Route 7 remains under investigation by the Lisbon post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol a week after occurring.  An Ohio Department of Transportation plow driver struck Ronnie White, of Scotts Mill Road in Rogers, as he walked northbound at ...

East Liverpool school board selects new member

EAST LIVERPOOL — After entering an executive session to conduct interviews for the top three applicants, and nearly an hour discussing the candidates, the East Liverpool City Schools Board of Education returned to an open meeting to vote on a new board member.   The top three applicants ...

Salem council updates several ordinances

SALEM — The city council approved updates to several ordinances in its Feb.3 meeting. Council voted unanimously to approve updates to the city’s ordinances governing garage and yard sales, and the city’s housing code which were first discussed in a Jan. 21 meeting of the committee of ...