Columbiana County News

The juveniles told an officer they placed bang snaps on the road and vehicles were running them over.

KNOX TWP., Columbiana County, Ohio -- Tornado sirens here need just a bit more attention, trustee Chairman Gregg Carver reported during the board's regular meeting on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

The owner of Columbiana Buick Cadillac Chevrolet has sued the owner of Brittain Motors in East Palestine in a defamation lawsuit filed Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.

A local fire official resigned as the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency's certification compliance designee for St. Clair Township because of "instability" within the EMA and the qualifications of the new director.

Miles of pipeline are being laid across Columbiana County to deliver the liquid natural gas to the M3 Midstream gas processing plant under construction near Kensington.

Rachelle Anderson, state Route 7, Lisbon, reported at 1:55 p.m. Monday she had been in her bathroom about 20 minutes earlier when her brother began yelling at her about the dishes not being done and then punched her in the face.

The Canfield man responsible for robbing the Home Savings and Loan in the Glenmoor area last February, Tary L. Gilbert, pleaded guilty Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to robbery.

The company produced 372,212 barrels of oil and 10.1 million mcf of natural gas last year from 53 wells in the play.

Mahoning County dispensed with its chip and seal program 16 years ago, but newly-elected County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti told village council Monday he wants to resurrect it and implement additional "job share" programs to help villages and townships handle constantly increasing road maintenance costs.

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The Jefferson/Carroll/Columbiana County John Hunt Morgan Heritage Trail Tour Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bergholz Volunteer Fire Department hall on state Route 164, Bergholz.

The Columbiana County Port Authority is being asked to relocate to Lisbon and become part of a new office building county commissioners want to construct on the site where the former welfare office currently stands.

In Columbiana County Municipal Court on Monday, a June 24 preliminary hearing was set for Rebecca P. Watson, 34, Eley Street, Alliance, charged with theft for allegedly taking a card of 28 hydrocodone pills from Circle Care Center at 5:32 p.m. Sunday.

Anthony Mehno, the Salem man convicted by a jury last month of raping a 15-year-old babysitter, was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday by Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge C. Ashley Pike.

Wes Burt, state Route 517, Lisbon, reported at 12:50 p.m. Saturday a small red car pulled into his driveway and up toward the barn while he was sitting on the front porch with his daughter.

Village Council could receive $17,250 a year from a proposed 1 percent income tax, which would raise village income by 25 percent.

The Columbiana County Auditor's Office has found a way to convert to the commonly used and preferred accounting system at little cost to the county, thanks to Bert Dawson and the federal government.

The Lisbon school board was forced to do something this week it has not done in more than 20 years when it agreed to bail out the athletic fund to prevent the athletic department from ending the year with a deficit.

Rhonda Phillips, state Route 30, Hanoverton, reported at 9:24 a.m. Thursday the office window of Hanoverton Motor Cars was broken out and items were taken from her desk.

Even a last-minute change of location from Whispering Pine Golf Course to the grounds of the Columbiana American Legion Post 290 did not prevent people from finding the event.