Leetonia News

An officer will attempt to make contact with the employee. - A caller at 1 0:31 p.m. Wednesday reported a suspicious vehicle at the rear of a property in the 900 block of East Fifth Street with two people in the vehicle in an alley.

Cindy Reash, state Route 344, Leetonia, reported at 5:18 p.m. Tuesday there was an open door at the vacant property next door.

Michael E. Oates Jr., 36, of Salineville, was sentenced Thursday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to 90 days in jail for felonious assault.

A domestic dispute was reported at a Plymouth Street home in Hanoverton at 4:31 p.m. Monday.

Sean McCormick of Main Street in Leetonia is definitely a do-it-yourselfer as he continues to work on the 32-by-40-by-14-foot garage he and his brother, Kevin, are building from scratch.

Betty Sturgeon, Dutchtown School Road, Rogers, reported at 11:08 a.m. Sunday she was awakened by a noise one night and saw someone shining spotlights through the window of her home.

After almost a year, the village has a final plan with which to seek funding for its restoration of the Cherry Valley Beehive Coke Ovens.

The Leetonia Bee-Hive Coke Ovens Park is a village land mark. The coke ovens became a part of Leetonia in the 1860's, and played a major role in the iron and steel industries.

Perine Elizabeth DeLuce, 87, of the Essex of Salem No. 3 Nursing Center, died Saturday morning, May 19, 2012 at the Salem Community Hospital.

Michael Miller has moved up on the Cleveland Clinic kidney recipient list and family and friends will hold a poker run benefit him on June 2. A tool and die maker and mechanic, Miller graduated from the Columbiana County Career and Technical Center and had worked for Sekely Tool and Die in Salem.

A free community dinner will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the West Point Church of the Nazarene.

Allan G. Chamberlin, 92, of 652 Meadow Place Columbiana, passed away at 7:32 p.m. Saturday, May 12, 2012 at his home.

Dwight Elliott Shirey, 60, of Columbus, and a former longtime resident of Leetonia, died Tuesday evening at Mill Run Gardens and Care Center in Hillard where he had been a resident for the past two years.

Hall was uninjured. - Brady K. Shaffer, 17, of Enon Valley, Pa., went off the road and struck a mailbox while driving on state Route 9 in Butler Township at 3:40 p.m. Friday.

Mary Jane Johnson, 90, of Alliance, died on Monday, May 7, 2012, at 9:10 p.m. at Bel Air Care Center in Alliance.

Police checked the entire area but did not locate the vehicle. - A man reported hearing some type of grinding noise coming from the area of North Elm Street at 11:36 p.m. Sunday.

Sierra L. Wright, 16, of East Liverpool, was cited for failure to yield after she pulled into the path of a pickup truck being driven by Teresa J. Werner, 51, of Leetonia.

Goshen police teamed with the Ohio Department of Public Safety to help curb underage alcohol violations during the upcoming prom season.

Trustees said they can't approve a new contract with the New Waterford Fire Department until it sends them a "signed version." Fiscal Officer Pat Hoffmaster said Thursday that she didn't receive a revised version, noting New Waterford had asked for the Leetonia and Columbiana fire department contracts for the numbers.

Jack was born May 12, 1953 in Salem, a son of Patrick and Dorothy Ewing Mango and had lived in this area all of his life.