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Columbiana County commissioners recognize May for foster care, fraud awareness

LISBON — Columbiana County commissioners declared May as Foster Care Month and learned that May is also Fraud Awareness Month, with both recognized by the county Department of Job and Family Services. According to the proclamation approved by commissioners and read by DJFS Director Rachel Ketterman, “dedicated and diverse kinship and foster families provide lifelong love and support for children to increase positive outcomes for them and ensure that their voices are heard.” In Columbiana County last year, 91 children and youth were in foster care and 106 children lived with ...

Youngstown State expands into Steubenville as calls to consolidate Ohio’s universities ramp up

Youngstown State University is opening a new campus this fall – just as the conversation about shrinking Ohio’s public universities grows louder. The university’s first regional campus is on the former site of Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville. University President Bill Johnson said the new outpost will be a lean operation. There will be no campus dean or a “bunch of overhead people,” he said. Technology help, financial aid and other services will run out of the Youngstown campus. Johnson said this approach is saving a “tremendous amount” of overhead ...

America at 250: Expansion of a new nation started with trip along the Ohio River

Editor’s note: It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. Through these waters flowed settlers, soldiers, merchants, dreamers and pioneers determined to carve opportunity from the frontier. In many ways, the journey chronicled this week represents the true beginning of America’s westward. What started with a determined group of men leaving Massachusetts in the ...

CCCTC holds signing day for students

LISBON — Columbiana County Career and Technical Center held a signing day on Thursday for the senior students. The students, many of them with their families present to celebrate with them, signed a commitment with the company they would be working at after graduation, or a college or ...

Wellsville council adjusts request for BWD road repair ordinance

WELLSVILLE – Village council is continuing to work with the Buckeye Water District to repair roadways damaged during projects. At its previous meeting in April, council requested village solicitor Chris Weeda to draft an ordinance requiring the Buckeye Water District (BWD) to repair any roads damaged during work within 14 days of completion. If the road is not repaired within the 14 days, the district would be fined $500 a day for up to 14 days. After the the second 14 days the village could contract someone to complete the repairs and hold the district accountable for the cost. At ...