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Wellsville principals focus on learning and fun for students as school year wraps up

WELLSVILLE – Wellsville Local Schools principals are focusing on education with fun for students while they prepare to wrap up the 2025-2026 school year. Student recognition continues to be important to the district as the principals honor students each month at the school board meetings. April students of the month for Garfield Elementary are first graders Nico Mason and Za’Kari Banks. Nico was recognized for being an excellent student and friend who participates in class and offers to his peers in any way that he can. Za’Karu was also recognized as an excellent student and ...

New clinic makes local healthcare more accessible

EAST PALESTINE (WKBN) – A new clinic in Columbiana County celebrated not just its grand opening, but also how it is making healthcare more accessible to the community. The new location of the East Palestine Clinic, a service of East Liverpool City Hospital, held a ceremony and ...

CAA Health Centers marking Women’s Health Month

LISBON — With the month of May arriving, CAA’s Health Centers are marking Women’s Health Month. Existing and new patients are encouraged to make an appointment for medical services such as primary care, physicals, health checks, gynecological care, prenatal care/family planning and blood ...

Hancock County library levy set to go before voters

A long-running levy in support of Hancock County’s three public libraries is set to appear on the May 12 primary election ballot. If approved by county voters, the levy will continue to provide $200,000 per year in support of the libraries — the Mary H. Weir Public Library in Weirton, the Swaney Memorial Library in New Cumberland and the Lynn Murray Memorial Public Library in Chester. “We need a majority of 60 percent to pass,” said Molly Mossor, chair of the board for the Mary H. Weir Public Library. The levy was approved by county commissioners for placement on the ballot ...

Election chief hopefuls disagree on drop boxes

Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague, who is running in the Republican primary for secretary of state, said he wants to eliminate drop boxes and limit those who can vote absentee. Sprague said, “We want elections to be secure, and the drop boxes are a way where people can cheat by putting other people’s ballots in them. It’s impossible to enforce.” Sprague added, “They are a creature of COVID because people didn’t want to come in contact with one another. Their time of usefulness has passed. People need to walk the extra 50 feet 30 days before the election, while people can vote ...

Westward: Seven Ranges survey changed the country

The original surveyors that joined with Thomas Hutchins in mapping the Seven Ranges. Brev. Brigadier General Benjamin Tupper (Massachusetts) Lieutenant William W. Morris (New York) Captain Absalom Martin (New Jersey) Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Sherman (Connecticut) James Simpson (Maryland) Dr. Robert Johnston (Georgia) Edward Dowse (New Hampshire) Captain Alexander Parker (Commonwealth of Virginia) *** Editor’s note: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the United States stood as an unfinished nation. Victory had secured independence, formalized by the Treaty ...