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One bid received for Dresden Avenue manhole project

LISBON — Advanced Rehabilitation Technology submitted the lone bid for phase 1 of the Dresden Avenue manhole rehabilitation and replacement project. The Ohio company headquartered in Bryan sent a bid of $408,525. The deadline for submitting bids was 9 a.m. Wednesday, with the only bid received opened at the Columbiana County Engineer’s Office. Columbiana County commissioners accepted the bid and referred it to the engineer’s office for a recommendation. At a previous meeting when permission was granted to seek bids, Chief Deputy Sanitary Engineer Troy Graft explained that ...

Liverpool trustees thank township workers

LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP — Trustee Dennis Giambroni opened Tuesday’s Liverpool Township Board of Trustees meeting by giving a shout out to the township’s road crew, fire and police departments, and East Liverpool Fire Department and EMS. “They have been doing a phenomenal job and have been busy, with a rough couple of fires here in the last 24 hours,” Giambroni said. “A city fireman got hurt — thank goodness he didn’t get hurt bad — and we had a fatality in the city last night. Everybody is kind of pooling together and doing their thing and we as a township appreciate ...

W.Va. Attorney General shifts future opioid funds from foundation to state, local control

CHARLESTON – More than four years after state, county and city leaders agreed to create a private non-profit foundation to distribute millions of dollars in opioid settlement dollars, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a change in how future settlement dollars are distributed. In a press release Tuesday afternoon, McCuskey announced he was moving away from the established distribution model defined by the “West Virginia First memorandum of understanding (MOU), the agreement between the state and local governments that created the West Virginia First Foundation, ...

Woman accused of threatening to blow up Leetonia school campus gets jail time, house arrest

LISBON — The woman accused of threatening to blow up the Leetonia K-12 school in January must serve three days in jail, 15 days house arrest and pay a $1,000 fine plus other costs for an amended charge of inducing panic. Erin M. McGuire, 37, Chestnut Street, Leetonia, appeared Wednesday afternoon for a pretrial and motions hearing which turned into a plea and sentencing before Columbiana County Municipal Court Judge Danielle Menning. Accompanied by her defense attorney, Bruce Williams, McGuire entered a no contest plea to the first-degree misdemeanor charge of inducing panic and ...

Tim Ryan firm seeks common ground

Tim Ryan, who spent 20 years serving the Mahoning Valley in the U.S. House, has opened Unlikely Majorities, a consulting firm that touts it “runs campaigns that make the politically and culturally impossible possible.” A Democrat, Ryan left the U.S. House after 10 two-year terms at the end of 2022, after losing a Senate race to Republican J.D. Vance by 6.1%. Since then, Ryan has advocated for the natural gas industry and cryptocurrency through his Celtic Consulting firm. He considered a run for Ohio governor for this election, but said in November he would not seek the ...

One dead in house fire

EAST LIVERPOOL — A house fire at 2030 Ohio Ave. has left one resident dead. The East Liverpool and Liverpool Township Volunteer fire departments responded to the fire early Tuesday morning around 2 a.m. At approximately 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning East Liverpool Fire Chief Antony Cumo ...