Saturday Feb 6 | Ashtabula Star-Beacon
County approves temporary appropriations
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.
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.
Commissioners will let voters decide sales tax in November
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.
Ashtabula County in Financial Peril
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.
Hobbies add new dimension to GRA classes
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.
County signs an agreement with Army for sewer project
Ashtabula County commissioners advanced the Austinburg Sanitary Sewers Project another square Tuesday.
Humane Society to host benefit pancake breakfast Jan. 23
Spatulas ready, the volunteers at the Ashtabula County Humane Society are ready to flip flapjacks Jan.
Controversial recycling bin to stay put in Conneaut
A county recycling bin that has been the source of neighborhood complaints won't be moved anytime soon, City Manager Robert Schaumleffel Jr.
Ashtabula city officials trying to come up with money
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.
Hudson is new president of Ashtabula school board
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 finishes 2009 with surplus
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.
Conneaut city manager rekindles hopes for a new fire station
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.
'Peephole drivers' who don't clear all the snow and ice from a vehicle create dangers
Molly Rowden, 19, of Austinburg, scrapes the ice and snow off of her car at the McDonalds on Ohio 45 in Austinburg.
City Council votes to annex portion of Wade Avenue
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 finance director: Conneaut not overcharging for street lights
City residents received a quick review of their street lighting assessment at a councilman's request Monday night.
Bank robbery suspect apprehended
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.
Conneaut man stabbed in domestic dispute
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.

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