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County voters asked to support mental health tax levy

LISBON — Columbiana County voters will be asked Tuesday to continue their support of mental health and recovery services by renewing a 0.3-mill, 10-year tax levy. The levy generates nearly $590,000 in funding for mental health and recovery programs and services in the county annually and is ...

Insurance opt-out no longer offered by the CCESC board

LISBON — A health insurance opt-out stipend offered to Columbiana County Educational Service Center employees is now off the table. The CCESC Governing Board passed a resolution to terminate the opt-out stipend during the Oct. 21 meeting. The move was made in response to learning it could ...

Trial has been reset for corrections officer charged with assault

LISBON — A jury trial has been reset for 8:30 a.m. March 12 for a corrections officer charged with two counts of assault for alleged incidents against inmates last year. David James Ferguson-Grantz, 27, Youngstown, appeared with his defense attorney James Lanzo for a status hearing Thursday ...

Agencies respond to SNAP cut-off

During a presentation to a Salem social organization, George Hays explained that 17.8 percent of Columbiana County residents, or 19,000 people, would fall into the status of food insecure. This came months before the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that the “well has run dry” in ...

Liverpool Township fire department creates new positions

LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP — Fire Chief Jacob Russell told the Liverpool Township Board of Trustees during Tuesday’s meeting that he wanted to congratulate two firefighters on their recent promotions and that he made the decision to create two new positions, which include a training officer at each ...