EAST LIVERPOOL – East Liverpool City Schools is celebrating Mary English, who has been named the 2026 CEC Ohio Paraeducator of the Year by the Ohio Council for Exceptional Children. This statewide honor recognizes paraeducators whose dedication, compassion, professionalism and commitment ...
LISBON — A new visiting judge has been assigned to oversee the wrongful death lawsuit filed against Columbiana County, the sheriff and one deputy over a fatal crash in 2023 involving the pursuit of a driver in a stolen vehicle which hit another vehicle. Retired Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew D. Logan was recently appointed to the case by the Ohio Supreme Court after retired Wayne County Common Pleas Court Judge Mark Wiest said he no longer wished to continue as the assigned judge. Both judges in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court recused themselves due to ...
EAST LIVERPOOL — The street department has received funds for a brine making machine. Service/Safety Director Bill Jones told council members during their June 1 meeting that the street department received a $75,000 grant for a brine making machine and applicator which can help reduce salt use next winter and make it easier to plow the roads by reducing the ability of ice and snow to attach to the pavement. Jones said the equipment was estimated to cost approximately $82,000, so the city might have to have a small match for the grant for the difference. Jones also noted that ...
LISBON — A Salem woman charged with rape and multiple other sex-related acts involving two children over multiple years was declared competent to stand trial. Jan. M. McHenry, 40, North Ellsworth Avenue, will now face a jury trial at 9 a.m. Dec. 8 and a final status hearing at 9 a.m. Nov. 23 in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court before Judge Megan Bickerton. Bickerton recently found McHenry competent based on an evaluation by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio which she ordered in April. McHenry remains jailed under a $100,000 cash or surety bond. Both McHenry ...
Proposed tariffs on imports from 60 economies could raise nearly $970 billion over the next decade, according to estimates released Monday by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The tariffs, proposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, represent the broadest use of that ...
LISBON — Bids opened last week for the East Palestine train depot renovation all came in higher than the architect’s estimated cost, with Dynamic Structures of New Waterford submitting the lowest bid at $889,546. Columbiana County commissioners opened the bids last Wednesday, with part of the funding coming from a $250,000 state grant from the Target of Opportunity Program Community Development Block Grant through the Ohio Department of Development. Other bidders included: J. Herbert Construction Co., Salem, $953,000; Declan Construction, Brookfield, $961,690; and Brock ...
