During the Columbiana County Buckeye Dairy Boosters Spring Banquet two scholarships were awarded this year to Marin Stryfeller and Abigail Wolfgang. Marin is the daughter of Adam and Natalie Stryfeller of Salem. She is a senior at United Local High School with plans to attend Youngstown State ...
CHESTER — Only two races were contested in Tuesday’s municipal election in Chester. In Ward 1, Bill Kell defeated two challengers, Seth Roderick Patton and Leon Huff. Kell finished with 44 votes, while Patton had 22 votes and Huff had 16 votes, according to unofficial results from the Hancock County Board of Elections. In Ward 5, Steve Shuman defeated two other candidates, Donald Tharp and Jason Thorn. Shuman finished with 23 votes, while Tharp had 19 votes and Thorn 18 votes. Mayor Ed Wedgewood was unopposed in his re-election bid. He collected 318 votes. John Woody Woodruff ...
NEW CUMBERLAND – Three new faces will be joining the Hancock County Board of Education in July, coming in to office shortly after the board has been stripped of much of its authority by the state. According to unofficial results Tuesday night, Tiffany Gale of Weirton, Melissa Bane of Weirton, and Jeff Woofter of New Cumberland, are set to take their seats at the beginning of the district’s fiscal year, July 1. They are filling seats currently held by Board Vice President Ed Fields, Jack Crow and Jim Horstman. Numbers provided by the Hancock County Clerk’s Office Tuesday show ...
LISBON —Former East Liverpool City Health District food service inspector Alan Masters is scheduled to face a jury trial at 9 a.m. Nov. 3 for allegedly falsifying food inspection reports. Masters, 64, West Eighth Street, Salem, was accompanied by his hired attorney, Bruce Williams, during a pretrial Wednesday afternoon before Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton. Masters was recently indicted for 23 counts of tampering with records, a third-degree felony charge. County Assistant Prosecutor Alec Beech represented the state. A final status hearing was set for 9 ...
The presenter at the Museum of Ceramics lecture May 16 is David Neer. An incorrect name was published in Monday’s edition.
NEW CUMBERLAND – Hancock County voters overwhelmingly showed their support for two levies as part of Tuesday’s election. According to unofficial results, the county’s new levy in support of the Hancock County Animal Shelter received an approval from 68.55 percent of the voters, with 2,955 voting for the levy and 1,356 voting against. The levy. designed to raise $300,000 per year over a four-year period, was approved by commissioners to go before the voters last November. Under the levy call, taxes would be assessed at a rate of 0.7378 cents for every $100 of assessed value on ...
