Geneva-on-the-Lake News

A performer at the Elizabethan Yuletide Feaste at the Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake. Bay Village has long been short on fine-dining options.

The Lodge and Conference at Geneva-on-the-Lake is on track to make a net profit of $162,916 for 2009, about the same as 2008's performance.

A brave pizza clerk foiled a would-be robber Wednesday night, using pizza boxes to chase the suspect out of the restaurant, Geneva police reports show.

CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon PAM PALERMO of The Wooden Apple in North Kingsville works with Charlie Leighner, maintenance supervisor for the Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva-on-the-Lake, Wednesday afternoon as Palermo and other florists decorated the lodge for the holidays.

There is some pressure in owning Ashtabula County's newest winery, Jim Pearson said, but sweet success is almost as good as fine wine.

The Ashtabula Area College Committee Inc. recently was awarded a $15,000 Financial Stability Initiative grant from United Way of Ashtabula County.

The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners took their agenda meeting to the people of Morgan Township Tuesday evening.

The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners is discussing ways to address a growing threat to its budget: aging county-owned buildings badly in need of repairs.

It takes practice to plunder and pillage, but as any good pirate knows, the joy of the bounty comes in the sharing of the booty.

What's an election without a little chips and salsa? Debbie Sistek, owner of Luisa's Mexican Grill in Geneva, will host a candidates night from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct.

Malinowski has been warned all year that money would run out and should have reduced staff or manpower and didn't Those employees are more dedicated than I would be.

She's traveled the mountains of the Rio Grande on horseback, hunted wild turkeys and learned how to skin a muskrat.

An Ashtabula man, one of 10 people indicted by an Ashtabula County Grand Jury, was indicted on five different charges, including rape and kidnapping, according to Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court records.

A garage sale on Halloween will give buyers a chance to pick up a few outdated and unneeded "treats" from Buckeye Local Schools.

Pymatuning Valley High School students took the afternoon off from their studies Friday to celebrate the school's third consecutive year of being a School of Excellence.

The tough economy is taking its toll on recycling sites in the county, with cash-strapped residents using the containers as trash bins for household waste.

Regional lawyers got a pep talk from the Ohio State Bar Association Tuesday afternoon, as OSBA President Barbara Howard delivered a message of hope and help in tough economic times.

Factors beyond cost went into deciding who won the bid for lawn care at the Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva-on-the-Lake, says lodge manager Jeannette Petrolia.

Questions about the practice of charging for police dispatching from 911 calls arose Thursday, even as four villages shifted their police dispatching away from the county at midnight.

With a much-discussed contract with Ashtabula police for dispatching services in the dust, Geneva-on-the-Lake will continue with the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Department through 2009, Councilman Donald Woodward confirmed Tuesday.