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Local News August 8, 2026

Beaver Local Class of 1966 reunion The Beaver Local High School Class of 1966 will hold its 60th Class Reunion at the Ezio’s Restaurant Banquet Room in Salem from 4 to 5 p.m. Sept. 5. The cost is $30 a person and it will be a buffet style dinner. Also a cash bar. There will be prizes and a 50/50 drawing. Reservations can be made by calling Rosemary Prokop Bruehler at 330-385-9369 and she will provide her address to mail a check. Annual Lincoln Highway Buy Way Yard Sales return Aug. 13-15 The historic Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental road for automobile travel in the ...

REAL ESTATE

Court News August 8, 2026

Butler Township Jane A. Neiheisel to Cathy L. Robinson (trustee), 33.297 acres other agricultural use on Clark Road; $204,000 Center Township Timothy J. Brown to Timothy Brown Jr., home on state Route 45; $90,000 Columbiana Natalie M. Clutter to Austin Reynolds and Nina Shutack, home on Fairfield Avenue; $220,000 Bradley Rance to The City of Columbiana, other commercial structures on South Main Street; $72,000 Daniel Robert Wilson (trustee) to Anne L. Walston, condo on Timberline Drive; $330,000 Ross R. Shahan to KDC Properties V LLC, .56 acres commercial vacant land on ...

POLICE

Police News August 8, 2026

Sheriff’s Office — A woman on state Route 45, Madison Township, reported at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday that her neighbor keeps coming to her front door asking for a ride. A deputy spoke with the man and told him to have no contact with the woman. — A Hanover Township resident on Shore Lane Drive reported at 7:01 p.m. Wednesday that his ex-girlfriend, of Center Township, is posting information about him on Facebook. He was advised to contact the Facebook administrator and an attorney. — Deputies responded to a welfare check requested at 1:17 a.m. Wednesday on Freeman Road, Center ...

23rd Annual Iden-Iler Memorial Scholarship Presentation

Local News August 8, 2026

SALEM — Approximately 200 people were on hand Saturday during the annual Iden-Iler memorial fundraiser breakfast and trap shoot. To date, $37,000 have been awarded in scholarships to 74 recipients. Six students were selected as this year’s recipients and presented with scholarship ...

On the calendar

Local News August 8, 2026

SAT/8-8 Boardman DARE Singles Group, Music at Firestone Farms in Columbiana, 6 p.m.; information at 330-729-0127 Chester “World’s Largest Teapot” Day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., includes live music, food (hot dogs and nachos) served from the Teapot, and local craft vendors offering a variety of items for sale Columbiana Good As New Shoppe, Methodist Church, 210 S. Main St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 50 percent off entire store. NO SALES TAX WEEKEND. Historical Society of Columbiana & Fairfield Township Log House Museum open 2-4 p.m. East Liverpool Canceled: East Liverpool Moose Lodge ...

Ramaswamy, Acton take positions on data centers

Local News August 8, 2026

With data centers popping up in Ohio and creating controversy, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton, who are running for governor, are taking positions on them. Ramaswamy said Thursday that he has three nonnegotiable requirements for data centers — they must ensure that Ohio families who live near them receive free electricity by providing power or compensation that directly lowers residential electric bills, they must pay their full property taxes, and they must comply with strict air and water quality standards while prioritizing brownfield and industrial ...