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

Local News 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 ...

East Palestine library's EPGO launches “Rescue Readers” program with city officials

Local News July 31, 2026

EAST PALESTINE — EPGO is doing it’s best to ensure that the older population of the area is able to clearly see what is needed when filling out forms or reading. The EPGO “Rescue Readers” program was recently launched at the East Palestine Library and village offices. Barb Kliner of ...

POLICE

Police News July 31, 2026

Sheriff’s Office — Deputies were dispatched at 7:20 p.m. Wednesday to Lakeview Drive, Hanover Township, for a welfare check on a person, making contact with the person, and family and neighbors also present. Hanover Township EMS and Winona EMS were on scene. The person was pink slipped, meaning ordered to go to a hospital in Stark County, with Winona EMS doing the transport. — A Salem Township resident in the 36000 block of Butcher Road called at 6:54 p.m. Wednesday to report damage to the driver side window of his vehicle parked on his property. It was unknown when the ...

Community Briefs

Local News July 31, 2026

SHS Alumni Weekend celebration SALEM — The Salem High School Alumni Association will sponsor the annual SHS Alumni Weekend celebration Aug. 7, 8, and 9, coinciding with the 2026 Freed Fest and Nature and Nurture Maker’s Market in downtown Salem. Several classes will be celebrating their class reunions with special events at different locations. On Friday night at McCulloch Park in the downtown, SHS alumnus Joe Rottenborn from the Class of 1966 will present an “Old Time Favorites” concert from 6 to 8 p.m. Salem’s newest SHS alumnus, Logan Bricker from the Class of 2026, will ...

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

Local News 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 ...

THE COURTS

Court News July 31, 2026

Common Pleas NEW CASES Westlake Services, LLC, Los Angeles, Calif., vs. Vanessa Burnside, Prospect Street, Salem; collection sought of alleged $10,014 debt. Paul William French, state Route 172, Minerva, vs. Drivemax of Wadsworth, Massillon, et al.; monetary damages sought for claims of conspiracy, negligent entrustment, negligent hiring, retention and supervision, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation/slander, and negligence related to damage to historic structure owned by French by a vehicle crash. Salem Community Hospital, doing business as Salem Regional ...