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Holborn Herb Growers Guild to host tea party Sept. 20

BOARDMAN – The Holborn Herb Growers Guild will host its 2026 Annual Tea Party from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at the Lariccia Family Community Center in Boardman Park, 375 Boardman-Poland Road. Adults and children are encouraged to attend this year’s planned festivities which will ...

Eagle Scout project to provide two new homes for owls in Salem

SALEM — Owls will have two new homes in Salem’s parks as the result of an Eagle Scout project. Aaron Rea, a 15-year-old Eagle Scout candidate from Boy Scout Troop 2006, has been working on a project which will offer homes for four different types of owls in Columbiana County for the ...

Goshen Township trustees adjust street lighting assessment

GOSHEN TOWNSHIP — The board of trustees approved adjustments to the township’s special assessment for street lighting in its meeting Tuesday. The trustees unanimously approved a 4% increase in the township’s special assessment for electricity for 2027. The trustees and Fiscal Officer Michele Barratt said that the increase was being made to keep up with ongoing inflation. Barratt said that currently electricity rates were expected to rise 3.8% next year. “We don’t get all that money because some people don’t pay their taxes, but if everything was paid in full, we would ...

Columbiana County Archives Storage building nears completion

LISBON — The Columbiana County Archives Storage Facility is getting closer to finishing, with substantial completion expected in the next week or two and the building expected to open sometime in September. “There is progress being made on the archives building,” county Commissioner Tim ...

Salem council reduces outstanding zoning fees for landlord who purchased nuisance property

SALEM — City council voted to reduce outstanding zoning fees for a city property in its Aug. 4 meeting. Mayor Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey told council that a landlord with multiple properties within the city had purchased a property whose prior owners had not kept the property to code, accruing approximately $3,600 in fees prior to the purchase unbeknownst to the new owner. She explained that while the new owner had contracted a title company to do a search of the property’s deed prior to the purchase, that the fees had not been delivered to the county auditor’s office yet and the ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A woman on Black Road, Center Township, reported at 4:44 p.m. Wednesday that her tenant on Hill Street, Center Township, picked up her turkey pen and moved it on her property. — A man on South Lincoln Avenue, Salem reported at 12:18 p.m. Wednesday that he bought a vehicle from New Garden Auto Mall, state Route 9, Hanover Township and left his old vehicle there over a year ago and now he’s claiming the owner won’t tell him where it is. He was advised this was a civil matter and to contact an attorney. — A deputy was dispatched at 8:38 p.m. Tuesday to the ...