To the editor: I am writing to voice my strong opposition to the proposed annexation of our neighborhood from Perry Township into the city of Salem. It has come to my attention that the city is claiming the right to annex our properties based on a supposed deed restriction. However, upon ...
To the editor: I attended the Salem - United Varsity Baseball game Thursday (May 11) at Salem’s impressive facility on F.E. Cope Drive. It was a beautiful night and the game was exciting. Salem won by a run. United, with a district enrollment about half that of Salem’s, put up a valiant ...
To the editor: I worked for 48 years paying into Social Security and Medicare, earning these essential benefits for retirement and aging well in the community I helped build. This is Older Americans month that highlights the programming and systems we as a people created to support aging well. ...
To the editor: I firmly believe in a landowner’s right to make decisions for their own property until those decisions lower their neighbor’s property values, destroy their neighbor’s quality of life and ability to sell their property if desired. The current process that the township ...
To the editor: Here we go again. Dave Johnson and his minions singing the greatness of a loser like Donald Trump Jr. His daddy was the worst president this country had ever seen and that includes George W. Bush. Yes, this county is red but that will change if the Republican keeps on the same ...
To the editor: It is a common understanding in the retail industry that “if you break it, you buy it.” That same principle applies to a community destroyed by a reckless corporation as well as a community broken by a careless customer. The overdue bill owed by Norfolk Southern for its ...
To the editor: A million. Pretty big number. Even a half-million! But that is how many pennies our wonderful elementary students of Columbiana County collected for the Humane Society in the first annual ‘Pennies for Paws” last year. By the way, $5,000, if you’re still moving the ...
To the editor: This letter again is about the February 3rd train accident in East Palestine although it might be slightly different than some others. My family has lived in East Palestine for a long time and I chose to raise my children here after living away during their early years because ...
To the editor: As an active and involved citizen, parent, and community volunteer with the Salem City School district and proud alumnus of the SHS Class of 1982, I am writing in complete and unequivocal support of the proposed May 2nd bond levy initiative that will provide for the future ...
To the editor: At the recent public hearing held by the Columbiana County Commissioners regarding a ban on construction of large solar facilities and large wind farms in the unincorporated parts of seven townships in the county, Commissioner Weigle brought up my longtime support of the work of ...