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Sojourner Truth portrayal

Eddie Murphy, Wellsville, brings to life African American Abolitionist and Women’s’ Rights Activist Sojourner Truth during her portrayal of Truth in front of a live audience Monday night at the East Liverpool Carnegie Public Library. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt)

Community Briefs

Columbiana County Board of Revision meeting Columbiana County Board of Revision will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, in the Auditor’s Conference Room, located on the first floor of the Columbiana County Court House. This meeting is to review and approve the value abstract. For information call 330-424-9515. Columbiana SWCD’s 84th Annual Meeting The Columbiana SWCD will host its 84th annual meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17 at current board supervisor Bryan Hays and his family’s farm for “America 250, Back on the Farm.” This annual meeting will be held at Jan Paul Farms ...

W.Va. election officials monitoring rulings on absentee voting by mail

CHARLESTON - The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a partial victory for an executive order placing certain restrictions on mail-in voting, though the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Office said those restrictions likely will not affect the November general election. The Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday granting a stay of a lower court injunction of an executive order issued by Trump earlier this year aimed at election integrity. Among other things, Executive Order 14399 - issued by the president in March - directed the U.S. Postal Service to create rules by ...

LISBON — Dog attack survivor Penny Brown asked a judge to protect her Lake Tomahawk community during the sentencing for the woman who let the two dogs who attacked her run loose last May. Columbiana County Municipal Court Judge Danielle Menning responded Wednesday by telling defendant Jill ...

On the calendar

THU/8-27 Boardman DARE Singles Group, birthday night, 7-9 p.m., Boardman United Methodist Church; information at 330-729-0127 Chester Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Thrift Shop, 1-5 p.m.; liquidation sale; by donation Columbiana Free Community Meal, 4:30-6 p.m., St. Jude Church County Area Singles, 6 p.m., Coaches Burger Bar in Calcutta Damascus Tops 1329, United Methodist Church, weigh in 9 a.m., meeting 9:30 a.m. East Liverpool Toddle Time, 10 a.m., Carnegie Public Library Community Room; for children ages birth to 36 months School board, 6 p.m., Westgate ...

POLICE

St. Clair Township — An officer and K-9 were requested to assist the highway patrol with an open-air sniff on Third Street on Aug. 12. After the K-9 alerted on the seam of the front passenger door of the vehicle, a probable cause search of the vehicle was conducted during which officers found a meth pipe with residue in a purse on the front passenger seat. The driver said it was hers. The evidence was seized by the highway patrol. — Officers who arrived at an Echo Dell Road residence on Aug. 12 and spoke to a female who told them she was having thoughts of harming herself. ...