Lisbon News

Salem resident and Lisbon native Scott A. Washam announced he is running for the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court bench being vacated by Judge David Tobin, who is not seeking re-election this year.

The county will obtain a state grant to help fund the proposed Save-A-Lot supermarket in Lisbon, which is expected to open by March.

John Wolf, Lisbon; and Debbie Wolf, Rogers, are announcing the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Tiffany Wolf, to Evan Scheel, son of John and Carolyn Scheel, Columbiana.

Village officials want a meeting to discuss a Columbiana County Fair Board proposal to close the fairgrounds entrance on Morris Street and open a new one off Vista Drive.

A former Columbiana veterinarian will be speaking at the Columbiana Public Library about a true crime novel he recently authored.

Local officials met Tuesday with U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson to discuss obtaining federal funding for various projects, chief among them being revival of the improvement to U.S. Route 30.

One of the men believed responsible for the assault of a local motel owner and the theft of his vehicle was taken into custody late Friday at a relative's home in West Virginia.

Defendants named in open indictments issued Friday included a man charged with multiple rape and sex offenses, a woman charged for allegedly stabbing her husband, a man caught out-of-state with a missing teen and two men who abducted and threatened a Washington Township resident in December.

It was the anti-big government beliefs of the Tea Party movement versus county commissioners at last night's public hearing on the 1 percent sales tax.

Beverly L. Buchheit, 52, Taggart Drive, Wellsville, was cited for failure to yield from a stop sign after she pulled into the path of an SUV driven by Joseph E. Giralico, 25, state Route 267, East Liverpool, causing him to strike a guardrail.

Caitlin Glenn was named to the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at Youngstown State University.

David E. Almy, 81, of Oak Hill Manor Care, formerly of Lisbon, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Oak Hill Manor Care following a recent illness.

Stores throughout Columbiana and Jefferson counties were visited Wednesday by agents with the Ohio Department of Taxation, checking to make sure they are legally selling tobacco products.

Donald R. "Don" Anderson, 81, of 33514 Teegarden Road, Lisbon, died at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan.

As City Council's economic development committee begins another year, Chairman David Nestic held a meeting to introduce them to the newly hired executive director of the Salem Area Industrial Development Corporation and to have Mayor Jerry Wolford update everyone on the proposed north industrial park.

A clerk was robbed at gunpoint Friday night at the BP gas station on state Route 154 near the state Route 11 interchange.

LISBON a ' Jack C. Amato Jr. will be sentenced at 11 a.m. March 5 by Judge C. Ashley Pike of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court after Amato pleaded guilty today in the shooting death of his wife.

Only four of the 12 school districts in the county opted to take a chance on obtaining a share of $400 million in additional federal stimulus dollars being sought by the Ohio Department of Education.

The Lisbon school board is considering borrowing $1.6 million to make its schools more energy efficient, with the estimated savings expected to be enough to repay the debt in less than 12 years.

Although warm weather is still months away, the Lisbon Area Chamber of Commerce is looking ahead to when snow is but a distant memory.