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Septic system help available

Local News July 16, 2026

LISBON — Columbiana County homeowners with failing septic systems may be eligible for financial assistance through a new $200,000 grant awarded to the Columbiana County Health District. The funding, provided through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Water Pollution Control Loan Fund, will help eligible homeowners repair or replace failing household sewage treatment systems or connect to a public sewer system. Depending on household income, the program will cover 50%, 85% or 100% of eligible project costs. To qualify, the septic system must meet Ohio's definition of a ...

Ohio EPA warns of poor air quality from fires

Local News July 16, 2026

COLUMBUS — The Ohio EPA issued a a statewide air quality advisory on Wednesday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The advisory is in effect from 7 a.m. today until the air quality improves and the smoke has left the region. The Ohio EPA expects the wildfire smoke to enter northern Ohio in the early morning hours and into the entire state by the end of Thursday. The Air Quality Index could get into the unhealthy range. When air quality is in this range, some members of the general public may experience health effects; members of sensitive groups (due to medical conditions, ...

On the calendar

Local News July 16, 2026

THU/7-16 Boardman DARE Singles Group, Music at Boardman Park, 6:30 p.m.; information at 330-729-0127 Canfield South Range school board, 6 p.m., K-12 Building Calcutta NARVRE (National Association of Retired and Veteran Railroad Employees) monthly meeting, 11 a.m., JP’s Pizzeria, 15946 state Route 170; information, Rocco at 330-853,3045 Chester Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Thrift Shop, 1-5 p.m.; liquidation sale; by donation County Columbiana County Energy Special Improvement District, Inc. Board of Directors, 10 a.m., 7860 Lincole Place, Lisbon Area Singles, 6 p.m., ...

Cuyahoga Falls teen charged with OVI, vehicular assault

Local News July 16, 2026

LISBON — A Cuyahoga Falls teen allegedly driving impaired on Feb. 2 is now facing charges for aggravated vehicular assault and OVI for causing injuries to two people in a two-vehicle crash that day in Knox Township. Allison K. Canan, 18, was served Tuesday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury last week. Charges include two counts of aggravated vehicular assault, a third-degree felony, and two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence of of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them-OVI, a misdemeanor. According to the indictment, ...

POLICE

Police & Courts July 15, 2026

SHERIFF REPORTS — A deputy was dispatched at 9:12 p.m. Tuesday to Columbiana Lisbon Road, Fairfield Township, for a domestic violence report. Both parties signed a refusal to prosecute and one party left the residence for the night. — People were reported screaming in the area of Woodland Drive, Fairfield Township in the 1800 block at 8:49 p.m. Tuesday. A deputy checked the area, but didn’t find anyone. — A deputy was dispatched at 5:46 p.m. Tuesday to the parking lot of McDonald’s, state Route 45, Center Township, for a woman and man pushing a shopping cart from Dollar ...

Community Briefs

Community News July 15, 2026

Pottery film screened at Museum of Ceramics EAST LIVERPOOL — Chagrin Falls resident Kenneth Koos came to the Museum of Ceramics on Tuesday, July 14 to show a 1929 16-mm film of the operations at the D. E. McNicol pottery. Though the pottery was founded in East Liverpool, production was moved to Clarksburg, West Virginia in 1928. His grandfather Kenneth Koos had taken the footage and had supplied the titles on the cards for this silent film. Koos’s wife Brenda, Museum of Ceramics Director Megan Coil and ten other area residents attended. Koos is a descendant of the Burford ...