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Calcutta Fire Department cools off residents during heat wave

The Calcutta Fire Department recently continued a new tradition started last year of getting pump training by cooling off children across Calcutta during extreme heat at the suggestion of Fire Chief Dave McCoy. Lieutenants Randy Schneider and Rylan Childs and Firefighters Hailey Kincaid and ...

THE COURTS

LISBON — In Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, David B. Heck, 20, Shadyside Road, East Liverpool, pleaded guilty to complicity in the commission of an offense, a fifth-degree felony, for intervention in lieu of conviction. He was originally charged with theft, a fifth-degree felony, for assisted in a theft on Nov. 12, 2025. Ronnie L. Jackson, 69, Steubenville Pike Road, Lisbon, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony, and was sentenced to three years community control with 90 days in jail (70 credited). He was originally charged with a count of third-degree ...

Winchester to lead off lecture series

EAST LIVERPOOL – Acclaimed author, journalist and historian Simon Winchester will open the Northwest Ordinance Lecture Series on Sept. 17 as its featured keynote speaker. Sponsored by the East Liverpool Partnership for Revitalization and the Friends of the Carnegie Public Library, the ...

East Liverpool Elks veterans committee to host breakfast

The Elks Lodge 258, 620 Broadway St., East Liverpool, will host its Veterans Committee All You Can Eat Breakfast from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 11. The meal includes scrambled eggs, home fries, bacon, sausage links, biscuits and sausage gravy, coffee, hot tea, orange juice and milk for $10 adults and $5 children 12 years and under. All proceeds will benefit local veterans.

Hancock Commission considers agreement for senior meal program

NEW CUMBERLAND — Hancock County commissioners addressed several end-of-year items during their meeting Tuesday, including a lease agreement between the Hancock County Senior Center and the Brooke County Committee on Aging. The Brooke County Committee on Aging is a nonprofit organization that oversees the Brooke County Senior Center. “They want to rent out the kitchen to provide meal delivery,” Commission President Eron Chek said. The nutrition program serves both Brooke and Hancock counties, offering lunches through one congregate site in Hancock County and two locations in ...

Highway patrol cruiser struck by wrong-way driver in East Liverpool

EAST LIVERPOOL — A three-vehicle injury crash involving a wrong-way driver and a marked Ohio State Highway Patrol cruiser at 8:19 p.m. Saturday, July 4, on U.S. Route 30 in the city of East Liverpool remains under investigation. A trooper from the Lisbon Post was on routine patrol in a marked cruiser when the vehicle was struck by a Lincoln SUV traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of the divided highway. The impact caused the patrol cruiser to overturn. The trooper was able to exit the vehicle and provide aid to the other involved driver, identified as David Hertzler, 61, of ...