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THU/1-1 County All Columbiana County offices closed. Washington Township Board of Trustees, 11 a.m., organizational meeting followed by regular meeting, township building FRI/1-2 East Liverpool VFW Post 66 Bingo, 6:30 p.m.; 25 cents a card, five cards for a $1, 50 cents coverall; pizza and fresh popcorn available for purchase SAT/1-3 East Liverpool East Liverpool High School Class of 1956, 9 a.m., Two Smart Cookies Highlandtown Canceled: Inverness Hall Community Breakfast Lisbon Lisbon Church of the Nazarene, Men’s Prayer Breakfast, 9 a.m. Let’s Get Wicked: ...

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WED/12-31 County Columbiana County offices will close at noon today, including the courts and title department. Area Singles, 6 p.m., Olive Garden in Boardman East Liverpool Brooke Hancock Food Security Team hot meal to go, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Community Resource Center of East Liverpool, 940 Pennsylvania Ave.; 330-385-1301 Knox Township Board of Trustees year end meeting, 10 a.m., administration building; organizational meeting for 2026 will immediately follow; pre-construction meeting with Custom Utility at 9 a.m. to discuss fiber project in the township Lisbon Lisbon ...

Local attorney retires after 45 years

LISBON – After 45 years, attorney Coleen Hall Dailey conducted one final hearing Dec. 22 in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, and as she walked back into the courtroom a few minutes later she was surprised by colleagues, judges, courtroom staff and magistrates with whom she had worked the past decades in many capacities. The surprise included cake, cards and lots of well wishes and a recognition plaque presented by County Bar Rep. Brooke Zellers. During her active career, Dailey served as magistrate under both Judge Doug Jenkins and David Tobin beginning in 1994, then with Judge ...

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Tops 1341 meeting Tops 1341 met at the Glenmoor Presbyterian Church on Monday, Dec. 29, with Mary Gailey, facilitator, presiding. Becky Andrews was the best loser and Cheryl Myers was the runner up. They chose corn and cake as the junk foods for the coming week. The drawing winners were: 50/50, Andrews; food chart, Gailey; weight loss, Chris Plunkett; junk food and jackpot, Myers. Losing three weeks in a row Darlene Naukem. Naukem and Pat Allison were in the attendance record. Naukem also kept the travel box for week one. The names will start falling off in the check contest at ...

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TUE/12-30 County Columbiana County commissioners meeting, 9 a.m., downtown courthouse. East Liverpool Needles and Hooks (crochet and knitting group), noon-2 p.m., Carnegie Public Library Community Room East Palestine Eagles kitchen open 4-8 p.m., pork and sauerkraut with mashed potatoes and roll, $9; 330-886-0397. Glenmoor Free community drive-thru dinner, noon-until-gone, Glenmoor ECO Presbyterian Church. Menu: hamloaf, au gratin potatoes, green beans, apple sauce, bread and cookie. Leetonia Knit Wits Knitting Friends, 2-5 p.m., Leetonia Community Public Library meeting ...

Ol’ Food cooked my pet turtles

“Why do you like the movie ‘A Christmas Story?’” asked Snickers, my favorite son-in-law. “Because I grew up in the ‘50s” was not much of an answer for him. Fighting clinkers in a coal furnace, the power of holding a loaded and cocked BB gun, facing up to a bully, wearing winter hats with corduroy ear flaps, getting bawled out because Dad worked night turn at the mill and I woke him up, freezing my hands helping put on tire chains in slushy snow because they didn’t plow the side roads – these memories from my own childhood were similar to the depiction of ...