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New dates set in involuntary manslaughter case

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LISBON — Upcoming court dates were set Friday in the case against Seth T. Hildebrand, who is accused of causing the death of a 2-year-old child in December 2024. Dates were set for an interim status conference hearing at 10 a.m. on Jan. 15, a final status conference hearing at 9 a.m. on March 2, and a jury trial at 9 a.m. on April 6 during a brief pretrial hearing Friday. Hildebrand, 21, Birch Road, East Liverpool, who was in attendance Friday, has been out of jail on a $200,000 cash or surety bond. In July, Hildebrand entered a not guilty plea to charges of first-degree felony ...

City lake to close after Labor Day

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SALEM — The parks department will cut the season short at the Salem City Lake this year. During the parks commission’s August meeting, Parks Director Kelli Pastore told the commissioners that the department was once again operating at a loss for the year at the city lake and asked when they wanted to close the lake this year. Pastore said that while the department had expected a bump in activity at the lake this year due to Guilford Lake temporarily closing for dam work during the summer, the department had sold roughly the same number of day and season passes as last season, ...

THE COURTS

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Municipal LISBON — A Columbiana man was bound over to the grand jury facing potential felony charges for allegedly choking and striking a woman in August. Anthony Lopshansky, 42, Woodland Avenue, Columbiana, was bound over to the grand jury charged with third-degree felony strangulation, and fourth-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly placing his hands around the throat of a woman, preventing her from breathing, after an argument in Columbiana on Aug. 24. He then allegedly struck the woman in the face causing her to fall back before grabbing her by the throat a second time ...

East End church welcomes back former longtime preacher

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EAST LIVERPOOL — The Oakland Free Methodist Church is welcoming back the Rev. Harold E. Haire—better known now as “Pastor Hal”—who served the congregation at 506 Wedgewood St. starting at age 30 in 1982. In 1995, he accepted another pastoral position in Spencerville, Maryland, and ...

Canfield Fair flyover

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East Palestine High School graduate Drew Tancer, the 910th Airlift Wing Director of Plans and Programs, keeps in communication with the flyover and skydivers at the Canfield Fair on Thursday. (Photo by Ron Firth)

POLICE

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Salem — A fight in progress was reported in the 300 block of West Fourth Street at 11:21 a.m. Friday. Officers spoke with the parties involved and determined that they had been involved in a verbal dispute which had turned physical. Neither party wanted to pursue the matter. — A person to be removed was reported at a business in the 200 block of South Broadway Avenue at 8:23 p.m. Thursday. The person gathered their belongings and left without incident. — Officers on patrol in the 200 block of South Lincoln Avenue conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle at 11:12 p.m. ...