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Aiming High piles up millions of pop tabs

Family Recovery Center Prevention Specialists Jess Krulik, left, and Kelly Seddon scale the mountain of pop tabs that the center's Education Department's Aiming High Program collected from area schools this year. The money generated by recycling the tabs will be used to send area students in grades first through sixth to leadership camp. (Salem News photo by Kevin Howell)

May 17, 2008

LISBON— The Family Recovery Center’s Educational Department program, Aiming High, has once again collected pop tabs at the Columbiana County schools this year.

In its third year of collecting, Aiming High has already topped the previous two years’ totals with two weeks remaining in the project.

Prevention Specialist Kelly Seddon estimated that over 3 million tabs equaling nearly 2,800 pounds will have been collected by the end of the project, topping last year’s 2.8 million at 2,140 pounds. She said that the total money generated would probably be the same, though, at

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Salem to keep Ramunno as superintendent

May 17, 2008

SALEM — The school board will vote on whether to renew interim Superintendent Lou Ramunno’s contract during Monday’s meeting at 7 p.m. in the high school library.

In a prepared statement, the school board said in light of progress in the

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EL man pleads guilty to assault, abduction

May 17, 2008

LISBON — A plea agreement has been reached in the kidnapping/rape case against an East Liverpool man accused of taking his ex-girlfriend and holding her hostage last fall.

James McKahan Jr., 29, of 11361 Sprucevale Road, pled guilty to a

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Camp gives kids chance to interact with nature

May 17, 2008

ROGERS— The Columbiana County Educational Service Center (CCESC) sponsored its annual two-day Outdoor Education Program Thursday and Friday for its students with special needs.

Held at Camp Frederick, a private church camp on state Route

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