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Commissioners award first phase of Dresden Avenue manhole project

LISBON — Columbiana County commissioners on Wednesday awarded the Dresden Avenue manhole rehabilitation and replacement Phase 1 project to the lone bidder, Advanced Rehabilitation Technology. County Sanitary Engineer Bert Dawson recommended the awarding of the contract to the company headquartered in Bryan, Ohio for $408,525. Chief Deputy Sanitary Engineer Troy Graft said the project will begin within a month. The bid was higher than the funding lined up for Phase 1 of the project, so he said the contractor will just do the amount of manholes covered by the funding and the county ...

Wellsville schools eye partnership with BWD to solve communications issue

WELLSVILLE — Kyle Exline, superintendent of the Wellsville Village School District, addressed the Buckeye Water District (BWD) trustees during their Sept. 17 meeting to request a potential partnership with the BWD. Exline told the board that the district’s radio communication system for the buses is struggling to cover when they go outside of the district, so Transportation Director Melissa Antonio obtained a grant to update the system and place a repeater at Daw Elementary School. Exline noted that once the repeater was up and running, they noticed once a bus leaves the ...

Wellsville to crown Homecoming Royalty

Members of Wellsville High School’s 2026 Fall Homecoming Court are members of the Class of 2027. This year, court members are, from left, front row, Kaylee Kazee-Lyons, Makenzie Thompson, Madelyn Landess, Arianna Adkins, Karolynn Cataldo; back row, Ethan Morris, Kameron Wright, Alex Bess, ...

Wellsville school officials discuss state report card

WELLSVILLE — Wellsville Local School District Superintendent Kyle Exline and Allison Scott, director of curriculum, updated board members on the state report card and said they have a strategic development plan in place to address the scores. Exline said the update was to provide board members of the scope as to where the district is at and what was accomplished. The district had an overall grade of three stars, indicating they meet state standards. Exline said there was a tremendous improvement overall across the entire district with significant gains shown across the board, ...

County health district issues reminder of scrap tire collection

LISBON — The Columbiana County Health District is reminding residents the district will host a free scrap tire collection event from 9 a.m. to noon on Oct. 3 at the Columbiana County fairgrounds. The collection guidelines include a limit of 10 tires per person, tires must be off of the rim and only passenger car and light truck tires will be accepted. The fairgrounds is located off of Lee Avenue, Lisbon. The tire collection is being funded through a $20,000 grant the district was awarded through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency’s Mosquito Control Grant Program, with half ...

Trump says US and Iranian officials met Tuesday, shortly after warning he may ‘annihilate’ Iran

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war. Trump told reporters that his chief envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met with the Iranian officials on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders but he offered few details about how the discussions transpired or the substance of the exchange. “It was a very ...