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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

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

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

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 ...

Community Briefs

Shawshank Redemption screening at Waterworth Memorial The Salem Parks Commission will host a screening of The Shawshank Redemption Saturday at the Waterworth Memorial Park Bandshell as part of the America 250 celebration and Ohio Goes to the Movies. Food and snacks will be available starting at 8 p.m., with the movie starting at dusk. State Route 9 daily closure State Route 9 between Brussel and Arbor roads will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 3 through 7 for culvert maintenance work. Detour will be state Route 171 west to state Route 43 north, state Route 43 north to state ...