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Guilford Lake cleanup event set for this weekend

HANOVERTON — Area residents are invited to show up from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for a volunteer cleanup event at Guilford Lake State Park, meeting at the beach parking lot, 6086 Camp Boulevard, Hanoverton. John Beilhart IV, wildlife and forestry specialist with the Columbiana ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A deputy was dispatched at 9:59 p.m. Saturday to Steubenville Pike Road, Center Township, for a protection order violation. Warrants were issued out of Columbiana County Municipal Court for a 69-year-old Lisbon man for charges of violating a protection order, aggravated menacing and obstruction of official business. — A disturbance was reported at 8:04 p.m. Saturday at Big Arb’s Campground, Buffalo Road, West Township, at the front gate involving a man and woman who were camping on the property and were asked to leave per the owner. A deputy spoke to the ...

County health board addresses swim safety tips

LISBON — Swim safety topped the topics during a recent Columbiana County Health District Board meeting, with the idea of a water watcher being suggested by both the county and the state. “Someone to observe people in the pool,” county Health District Public Information Officer Laura Fauss said. That’s the definition of a water watcher, someone to watch over the swimmers. Fauss said 23% of childhood drownings occur during family gatherings due to distractions. According to the Ohio Department of Health website at odh.ohio.gov, there are several actions that can be taken ...

Winona Ruritan Club awards scholarships

The Winona Ruritan Club recently awarded three college scholarships to granddaughters and a grandson of club members. From left, Bob Doyle Sr., grandfather of Will McEver, who recently graduated from Fox Chapel High School near Pittsburgh and will be attending Penn State University in the ...

Students get hands-on science education during Camp Invention

COLUMBIANA – Students of Heartland Christian School in Columbiana recently spent a week experiencing what it is like to create a product, develop a proposal and market the product. The students in grades two through six participated in Camp Invention, a nationally recognized summer STEM ...

On the calendar

WED/7-8 Boardman DARE Singles Group, Music at Woodworth Park, 7 p.m.; information at 330-729-0127 County Columbiana County comissioners meeting, 9 a.m., downtown courthouse, Lisbon. Columbiana County Veterans Service Commission, 10 a.m., CCVSC office East Liverpool Friends of the Carnegie Public Library book sale, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Carnegie Library’s Community Room East Palestine East Palestine Library, Health Coaches for Hypertension Control, 11 a.m.; Drop-In Book Club, 6:30 p.m. Hanoverton United school board, 5:30 p.m., conference room Lisbon Arc Class with Jacob ...