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TUE/11-10 Beloit United Quilt Guild, 6:30 p.m., West Branch booster hall, 26701 U.S. Route 62 (note change in location for this meeting only); Kathy Brown will demonstrate quilted jackets; members and guests are welcome. Calcutta Calcutta Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Peter Metrovich Community Center Center Township Board of Trustees, 7 p.m., township hall Columbiana Planning commission, 7 p.m., city hall County Columbiana County ESC, 4 p.m., 38720 Saltwell Road, Lisbon East Liverpool East Liverpool Ladies 1968, 9:30 a.m., Two Smart Cookies Needles and Hooks (crochet and ...

Trial set in vehicular manslaughter case

LISBON — A Rogers man accused of vehicular manslaughter in a 2025 traffic crash that took the life of 79-year-old Rebecca A. Myers of Lisbon is scheduled to face a court trial at 2 p.m. Jan. 11. Donald Keith Hollingshead, 31, Adams Road, appeared without an attorney before Columbiana County Municipal Court Judge Danielle Menning Monday morning, signing a document to waive his right to counsel, but only applicable to the hearing Monday. He previously indicated he would be representing himself and on Friday, filed a handwritten motion to demand discovery from the state of Ohio. ...

On the calendar

MON/11-9 Calcutta Beaver Local school board, 7 p.m., 8th grade pod County Columbiana County Park District, 5:30 p.m., CCPD office East Liverpool Board of Education Curriculum & Technology Committee, 4 p.m., Personnel Committee, 5 p.m., Westgate Administrative Center East Liverpool Community Improvement Corporation, 5:15 p.m., council chambers Preschool Story Time, 6 p.m., Carnegie Public Library Community Room East Palestine Way Station, open 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 109 W. Rebecca St. Eagles kitchen open 4-8 p.m., meatloaf with mashed potatoes and vegetable, $9; dine in or carry out; ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON – In Columbiana County Municipal Court, Brandon S. Gust, 28, West Washington Street, Lisbon, was fined $650 and sentenced to 90 days in jail, with 83 days suspended and credit for seven days served, for possession of drug abuse instrument, driving under suspension and disorderly conduct, with 20 hours community service ordered. A charge of failure to yield was dismissed. Gust possessed a used needle syringe when he was placed into custody for an arrest warrant on Oct. 1 in Salem. On June 22, 2026, he was intoxicated and kicked the door of a business, alarming the ...

Holocaust survivor speaks to area students

YOUNGSTOWN - Sol Factor had what he described as a good life with his adoptive parents, though that did not dim his quest to find his biological mother. “My mother was 22 when I was born, and she had lost all of her family,” Factor, 80, of Solon, said. When he was about 2 weeks old, ...