Lisbon News

Columbiana County commissioners decided to use their 2010 allocation of federal grant money to fund projects in Lisbon, Leetonia and Washingtonville.

Email: "MUNICIPALLISBON a ' In county Municipal Court on Monday, a Lisbon man was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail for OVI third offense, driving without a valid license and a turn signal violation.

Sisters Michelle Ferguson and Amy Scheel worked out and utilized the Weight Watcher's point system to become one of the local success stories.

James Earl Black, 64 of Windrose Court, Columbiana, died at 7:50 a.m. Saturday at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland.

Seeing court records won't be as easy starting Wednesday, but one Columbiana County official said the public isn't being shut out.

Chad Schlernitzauer, Canton, reported at 1:35 p.m. Wednesday that he was trying to repossess a vehicle at a home on state Route 45, Lisbon, and the family blocked the driveway with a large rock and threatened him, mentioning a weapon.

Shannon Leigh McDevitt became the bride of Jared William Linder Nov. 1, 2008 at Maplegrove United Methodist Church in Columbus.

Probate officials in Columbiana County said they plan to talk to the prosecutor about filing bigamy charges against a couple that was recently married in Lisbon.

In county Municipal Court Monday, a Salem man was placed on $10,000 bond on a felony charge of burglary.

Columbiana County's public libraries are bracing for the worst after Gov. Ted Strickland proposed cutting their funding by 30 percent to help balance the state budget.

Local preservationist Stevie Halverstadt has another way to save Lisbon's beautiful tree-lined main thoroughfare: Feed the trees with special food and be careful when cutting their roots.

Federal funding is being sought to extend the Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail from Lisbon to East Liverpool.

A sex offender who challenged a reclassification requiring him to register his address for the rest of his life won a new classification requiring less registration time.

The Columbiana County Red Cross has a new address. The chapter closed its East Liverpool and Salem branches to move operations into a new building, just north of Lisbon, on State Route 45.

Columbiana County Commissioner Jim Hoppel is working on a plan to get the county courthouse clock working which would compete with the efforts of a volunteer group that took on the project with the commissioners' blessings.

Facing the need to downsize and pool together resources, the East Liverpool and Salem branches of the American Red Cross will close and move operations to a new location in Lisbon.

After allegedly parking in a handicapped parking spot, "staggering" to the front entrance of Alliance Community Hospital and then exiting the parking lot in his car, a Columbiana County man was arrested on OVI charges.

The electrocution death of a newspaper carrier on May 22, 2004, will become the subject of a jury trial scheduled to start this morning against the city of Columbiana by the victim's mother.

One of the chief goals of the Lisbon Area Chamber of Commerce is to help preserve the historic buildings in town, and the chamber will be doing just that when the organization moves into its new home sometime next month.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Buckley, Lisbon recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a surprise dinner party at the Spread Eagle Tavern, Hanoverton.