Jefferson News

Tired politicians dutifully drudged to their jobs Wednesday after a late night of either celebrating or despising the election results.

The Jefferson Players will present some "Good News" this weekend in their new high school auditorium.

The Ashtabula City Port Authority and the new Route 11 industrial park are moving ahead with their first building project, says Alicia McFarland, the Port Authority's economic development director.

BILL WEST / Star Beacon JEFFERSON HIGH students wait to enter school Monday for their first day of classes at the new school.

An administrator with the Ashtabula County Sheriff's Department, the subject of recent disciplinary action, has accepted a position with another police agency, according to reports.

The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners will use the County Engineer's Department for snowplowing and removal services again this winter.

Contract negotiations with employees of the Jefferson Area Local Schools District were settled at the school board meeting Tuesday night at Rock Creek Elementary School, Superintendent Doug Hladek said.

BILL WEST / Star Beacon THESE ARE just a few of the kittens running around the horse barns at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds in Jefferson.

DETECTIVE MICHAEL Colby's K-9 partner Nik died of cancer on June 15. Robert of Marcy, of Marcy Funeral Home is donating a head stone and Eric Nesbitt, of Thompson/Smith Funeral Home, is contributing a memorial plaque.

A 30-year-old man was seriously injured Tuesday night during an argument with a woman in his Harbor Ridge apartment.

The man who led police officers on a high-speed chase through the city Saturday morning has a history of fleeing and eluding in Geneva, Western County Court records show.

By MARK TODD - Staff Writer - mtodd@starbeacon.com JEFFERSON - Volunteers received training on H1N1 flu virus fundamentals Monday afternoon to help them to serve as telephone hot-line operators later this week.

The arrival of H1N1 flu virus vaccine is allowing local health departments to start scheduling clinics to be held in school buildings across Ashtabula County.

It may be easy to take the Ohio State Constitution for granted, because typically it is only discussed when a ballot issue will be amending it, as in the three pending issues being voted upon this fall.

This photo was taken during summer 2009 in Port Jefferson, Ohio. As you can see in the picture, it was snapped during the day with sun shining.

Jefferson Area senior and junior high school students are getting a lesson in patience as the move into their new school is delayed a little longer.

A majority of Conneaut City Council has authorized administrators to prepare financing needed to buy $400,000 in new street department equipment.

The yellow leaves of fall, the rough, aged wood of the Harpersfield Bridge and the smell of the Grand River is the recipe for childhood memories, Joseph LeMay said.

Despite a mass mailing informing them of impending property assessments, 22 village residents will have their delinquent sewer bills tacked onto their taxes, village administrator James Hockaday said.

Sheriff William Johnson, himself battling budget problems and staff furloughs, said Tuesday if he had it to do over again, he wouldn't have announced he was doubling dispatching fees for various villages.