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Salem eyes short-term rental operations

SALEM — City council is expected to review a proposed new ordinance which would regulate short-term rental operations within city limits in its meeting tonight. The ordinance was first discussed in a Jan. 27 meeting of the rules and ordinances committee, which ultimately voted unanimously ...

Trial slated for man accused in baseball bat attack

LISBON — Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam set the jury trial for March 30 in the case against a Columbiana man accused of attacking a woman with a baseball bat last year. Frederick L. Harroff, 66, last known address Columbiana Lisbon Road, appeared before Washam ...

Salem Parks Commission discusses multiple grants

SALEM — The parks commission discussed multiple grants in its meeting Wednesday. In the parks commission’s Dec. 17 meeting, Parks Director Kelli Pastore announced that the department would be receiving a donation of 25 batting helmets for its softball teams from Rollins Sports this ...

Columbiana High School Homecoming Queen

Ty Quigley and Megan Moser were crowned Columbiana High School’s Winter Homecoming king and queen at the Jan. 23 basketball game against East Palestine. (Submitted photo)

‘Crime Stoppers truly stops and solves crime,’ new leader says

YOUNGSTOWN — When John Leseganich Sr. took over as president and CEO of the local Crime Stoppers one year ago, he set out to change and expand the volunteer organization, leading to its name change to Crime Stoppers of Eastern Ohio and its coverage area growing from Mahoning County to ...

Lisbon woman charged in Smith Twp. stabbing

SMITH TOWNSHIP (WKBN) — A Lisbon woman is expected to be arraigned Thursday in Mahoning County Area Court in Sebring after she was charged early Monday with stabbing a man in the arm. Ashley Hill-Birkhimer, 30, is in the Mahoning County jail on a charge of felonious assault, a second-degree ...

On the calendar

TUE/2-3 Chester Brooke Hancock Food Security Team, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 600 Indiana Ave.; schedule appointment at 304-748-7850 Ext. 1002 Columbiana City council, 7 p.m., city hall East Liverpool American Red Cross blood drive, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Peter Metrovich Community Center Needles and ...

COMMUNITY CORNER

EP Eagles chicken dinner East Palestine Eagles #1506 is having their monthly stuffed chicken breast dinner drive thru from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 4. Dinner is the stuffed chicken breast, baked potato, vegetable and roll for $11. Call 330-853-8483 to reserve meal(s). Rain barrel ...

Playground equipment delivered in Columbiana

Old Dominion truck driver “Don” poses for a quick photo with Columbiana Project Playground vice president Stephanie Kale, who accepted the delivery of the first truckload of playground equipment late Friday afternoon near the former site of Funland, where the new equipment will be erected. ...

ELO CIC president steps down, cites need for change

EAST LIVERPOOL — Pat Scafide, president, East Liverpool Community Improvement Corporation (CIC), resigned from the CIC Board of Trustees Thursday, saying he feels a new vision for the board is needed. “I have thought about this for several months and I guess, if I have been thinking ...