Toronto News

Doug Flesch said he's delighted to be back in his hometown and doing business. Flesch, a 1988 graduate of Toronto High School, grew up in the Gem City and recently returned to open River City Apparel at 237 N. Fourth St.

Huntington Bank branch managers from throughout the Ohio Valley volunteered their time Thursday to help the village.

WELLSVILLE Albert J. Siers, 82, of Mick Road died Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, 2009, at his home.

TORONTO Incumbent Democrats will keep their council seats for another two years, according to unofficial results Tuesday from the Jefferson County Board of Elections.

City Police are seeking a man who robbed a city pharmacy at gunpoint Tuesday morning.

A burglar who admitted to breaking into a downtown pharmacy six times and a convicted sex offender who failed to notify authorities of his address were sentenced to prison Monday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr.

Members of the Three Score Senior Club held its monthly meeting on Oct. 22 at Undo's in the Holiday Inn-Weirton. President Frances "Cookie"?Veltri presided.

Toronto City Schools' Superintendent Fred Burns hopes voters in the Gem City will approve the 5-mill replacement levy that will appear on the Nov.

Four individuals are seeking three seats on the Toronto City School District's board on Nov.

Jeffrey B. Scott, age 58, of Toronto, passed away suddenly Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, at the Trinity Medical Center West, emergency room, Steubenville.

Some area school districts are seeing a drop in attendance with the arrival of flu season.

Local voters will have the opportunity to meet local candidates for office beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Karaffa Middle School.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was one of the bigger recent examples of the gulf between movie critics and moviegoers.

Weirton officials are keeping the momentum going as council passed the second reading of the ordinance authorizing the city to issue water revenue bonds to pay for an upcoming water treatment plant upgrade and Cattrell Companies Inc.

Nestled in over 140 wooded hills with a five-acre, fully-stocked, private lake, The Inn at Brandywine can comfortably sleep 12 people.

Officials with the Fourth Street Health Center have announced plans to expand into the southern part of Jefferson County with a monthly free clinic set to open in November in Mount Pleasant.

KELLEY, George Martin, 73, of Cadiz, died Saturday, October 10, 2009, at his home, surrounded by his loving family.

BENNETT, Thomas "T.B.", 69, went home to be with our Lord on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 surrounded by family and friends.

In 1881, the Gem City's forefathers incorporated Sloane's Station/Newburgh and named it Toronto after the Canadian city, but had industry developed from the south along the right bank of the Ohio River, perhaps the city would have received a different name - possibly even Jeddo.

Upcoming city chamber activities were discussed during the group's Thursday luncheon meeting at the North River Avenue Christian Church.