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September and October events at Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center

Community News August 18, 2026

EAST LIVERPOOL – The Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center has announced the following activities for September and October: Saturday, Sept. 5 from 1 to 2 p.m. – Ohio School of Falconry. The Ohio School of Falconry will be set up in front yard of the Wildlife Education Center. Joe Dorian will demonstrate how the birds fly and capture their food and talk about each bird. Guests will be able to take pictures of the birds. At the end of the program, 10 names will be drawn from those attending the program (must be at least 9 years old to do this). Those people will be able to have one ...

POLICE

Police & Courts August 17, 2026

Sheriff’s Office — A man on Miller Road, Elkrun Township reported a case of trespassing at 5:47 p.m. Wednesday, saying that his daughter was using a vehicle belonging to a Lisbon man that was parked in the driveway and the owner came to the residence and got it. — A man on state Route 172, West Township reported at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday that his son sent him multiple text messages that he will call the sheriff and make false accusations if he does not buy him a vehicle. He also called his place of employment and made the same statements to staff. The man said he just got off work ...

Rumbaugh grilled by lawmakers over DMV modernization contract

Local News August 17, 2026

CHARLESTON - Lawmakers last week raised a number of concerns about the price tag of a new system meant to modernize computer records maintained by the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles. Todd Rumbaugh, the cabinet secretary of the state Department of Transportation, answered questions ...

Local News August 17, 2026

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has given $34,300 in contributions from Les Wexner, who had longtime ties to notorious child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, to an anti-human trafficking charity, but he won’t give the other $45,600 he’s received from Wexner despite having more than $6.1 million in his state campaign fund. Amy Natoce, Husted’s campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign donated “all available funds” to the charity, Freedom a la Cart. That didn’t include the other $45,600 Husted, a Republican, received from Wexner. Wexner, a New Albany billionaire, is listed as an Epstein ...

Democrats disagree over abolishing or reforming ICE at DNC meeting

Local News August 17, 2026

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats on Saturday approved dueling messages on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed, reflecting sharp opposition to President Donald Trump’s crackdown but revealing disagreement in the party ahead of the midterms. The Democratic National Committee, gathered for a summer meeting, also signed off on a raft of policy positions, including one that calls for “concrete reforms” of ICE and another for abolishing the agency that’s been at the center of several fatal encounters. ICE has been at the heart of a ...

On the calendar

Community News August 17, 2026

MON/8-17 Beloit West Branch school board, 6 p.m., high school media center Boardman DARE Singles Group, meet at DQ on Market Street, 7 p.m.; information at 330-729-0127 Chester Family Care Ministries Annual Yard Sale, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., 2860 Pyramus Road Columbiana Historical Society of Columbiana and Fairfield Township to host “An Evening with Sojourner Truth” presented by Eddie Murphy of Wellsville, 7 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 28 E. Park Ave.; free to the public East Liverpool East Liverpool High School Classes of 1949-50, noon, Chef Ray’s on St. Clair ...