Bolivar News

We have had a lot of rain recently, but the flowers are blooming and the trees are beginning to show their leaves.

More than a hundred people will step back into Columbiana County's history this weekend when they visit a number of sites along the former Sandy and Beaver Canal, which operated in the 1840s and early 1850s and contained 90 locks and 30 dams.

BOLIVAR: Gov. Ted Strickland should replace Ohio Environmental Protection Agency staffers overseeing a troubled Stark County landfill because of a ''culture of corruption,'' a former EPA official said Tuesday.

Charles and Patricia Cory of Spotsylvania, Va., are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Jessica Marie Cory, to Brian Jeffrey Horner, son of Phyllis Horner of Bolivar, Ohio, and the late James Horner.

Relics of one of Ohio's oldest modes of transportation -- canals -- still are visible across the state, even though that mode hasn't been used for almost 100 years.

Countywide Recycling and Disposal in Pike Township has gotten their operating license from the Stark County Health Department.

DOVER - Florence Elizabeth 'Flossie' Klink, age 92, of Dover, and a longtime former resident of Bolivar, Ohio, died peacefully early Monday evening, January 26, 2009, in Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio.

An appeals court has ruled that the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District can proceed to collect $210 million in assessments to maintain and improve 14 dams and reservoirs in east-central Ohio.

BOLIVAR: Work will begin Monday to excavate a V-shaped firebreak through buried trash at a landfill in southern Stark County with fires and odor problems.