The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners dealt with a slate of routine business this week.

A tractor-trailer truck driver was robbed late Wednesday in the parking lot at the Flying J truck stop on Route 45 in Austinburg Township, according to Ashtabula County Sheriff's Department deputies.

Ashtabula County commissioners approved a resolution Thursday to enter into a loan agreement for about $891,102 with the Ohio Water Development Authority.

CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon ROY BROMMER, a member of the citizens group to call a referendum on the county sales-tax increase, reads a statement during a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon GARY HUNTER speaks to a standing-room-only crowd and the Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners Tuesday evening as he comments on the proposed 0.5-percent increase in the county sales tax.

CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon ASHTABULA COUNTY Commissioner Joseph Moroski responds to a question posed to him by one of the nearly two dozen persons who commented during the public hearing on the sales tax increase.

By MARGIE TRAX PAGE - Staff Writer - mtrax@starbeacon.com GENEVA - Wrapped in a blanket and her sister's comforting arms, Wendy Layton watched helplessly from the road as firefighters knocked out walls and broke the windows to her apartment Thursday.

A Lego may be an insignificant child's toy to many people, and the Stock Market may be a trivial institution to most teen-agers, but to Grand River Academy teachers John Balash and David Scharping, these topics have interested them to the point of sharing their hobbies with students.

Ashtabula County commissioners advanced the Austinburg Sanitary Sewers Project another square Tuesday.

Spatulas ready, the volunteers at the Ashtabula County Humane Society are ready to flip flapjacks Jan.

A county recycling bin that has been the source of neighborhood complaints won't be moved anytime soon, City Manager Robert Schaumleffel Jr.

Short of planning a car wash and breaking a piggy bank, Ashtabula's city officials are trying to think up ways to raise money for the cash-starved city.

A celebratory atmosphere filled Lakeside High School on Wednesday evening as a crowd gathered for the swearing in of re-elected and newly elected Ashtabula Area City School Board members.

Jefferson Village may be seeing plenty of white outside, but Village Council was happy to report at Monday night's meeting, the village ended 2009 in the black.

The city of Conneaut, thought to have been denied the federal money needed to build a new fire station, recently learned the project may have life, after all.

Molly Rowden, 19, of Austinburg, scrapes the ice and snow off of her car at the McDonalds on Ohio 45 in Austinburg.

An issue that has caused so much contention with City Council, and in the community, passed without so much as a grumble Wednesday night.

City residents received a quick review of their street lighting assessment at a councilman's request Monday night.

The suspect attempted a bank robbery there on Wednesday. It is believed that the robber is the man who hit Andover Bank's office on Public Square last week.

A 29-year-old Conneaut man will ring in the New Year from a jail cell after allegedly stabbing his estranged wife's friend in the chest Tuesday outside her home on West Main Street, police said.