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Minerva chamber recognizes businesses, individual at annual dinner

MINERVA – The Minerva Area Chamber of Commerce honored four local businesses and one individual during its 43rd annual dinner and Community Salute Awards May 21. The event began with a meet-and-greet with Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Pittsburgh Steeler player Jack Ham, followed by ...

Salem Historical Society added to NPS Network to Freedom

SALEM – The Salem Historical Society’s Underground Railroad Trolley Tour has been accepted into the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program. The Network to Freedom’s mission is to honor, preserve, and promote the history of resistance to enslavement ...

Salineville-Southern Local Athletic HOF Scholarships

Pictured receiving the Salineville-Southern Local Athletic Hall of Fame Scholarships of $500 each are Allyssa Shroades and Zacary Mayfield. Allyssa will be attending Kent State University pursuing a degree in nursing. Zacary will be enlisting in the Air Force Reserves and after basic training ...

On the calendar

TUE/6-9 Beloit United Quilt Guild Sew and Social, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., West Branch Booster Hall, 26701 U.S. Route 62; bring sewing machine and snacks, all fabric and patterns provided Boardman DARE Singles Group, bocce at Boardman Park, 5:30 p.m.; information at 330-729-0127 Calcutta Calcutta Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Peter Metrovich Community Center Columbiana Drive-thru ham dinner, Methodist Church, 210 S. Main St., 4-6 p.m. or sold out; $10; call 330-482-2382 to reserve dinners. Columbiana school board, 6 p.m., high school media center Planning commission, 7 p.m., city ...

Lisbon council to continue discussion on several topics

LISBON — Topics expected to come up again at tonight’s Lisbon Village Council meeting include a strategic plan update, active transportation plan update, removal of the parking ticket boxes on downtown poles, the Willow Grove bridge project and the swimming pool. All the topics came up at recent meetings, with good news coming last week with the village to receive $150,000 from the state’s capital budget to cover a new filtration system for the pool, which isn’t reopening until next year. The memorandum of understanding for the Ohio Department of Transportation grant of ...

Salem set to receive $600K from state for Lincoln Plaza expansion

SALEM — The city of Salem is set to receive $600,000 in state funding for expansions to Lincoln Plaza. Ohio Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, announced Thursday that Lincoln Plaza was included in the list of projects in Columbiana, Mahoning and Carroll counties slated to collectively receive $8.5 million through the state capital budget as passed by the Ohio Senate. If the proposed capital budget is approved by the Ohio House of Representatives and Gov. Mike DeWine, the $600,000 award would make approximately $1.6 million in state capital funding secured for Lincoln Plaza, with the ...