PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The Democratic challenger for one of West Virginia’s congressional seats pitched legislation Friday to place a two-year moratorium on new, large data centers and to give local communities a say in whether they’re built. Ace Parsi, a Morgantown community organizer ...
LISBON — A new date of Oct. 28 was set Monday for preliminary and pretrial hearings in multiple cases against a Salineville man with a history of charges for fleeing from police attempting to stop him, including for a recent attempted traffic stop in Salem. Nathaniel L. Ford, 24, West Main Street, remains jailed under a $150,000 cash or surety bond, but also must serve some jail time after entering pleas in a case from 2023 and one from 2024. Ford was fined $750 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, with credit for 16 days served, leaving 14 days still to serve for two separate cases ...
LISBON — A former Columbiana man already sentenced to at least 39 years in prison for trying to kill a woman last year earned an additional year for menacing and attempted intimidation of the same woman via letters sent from jail. Frederick L. Harroff, 67, appeared via video from the Lake Erie Correctional Center for a plea and sentencing hearing Monday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court before Judge Megan Bickerton. Harroff had nothing to say when given the opportunity to speak. He entered a guilty plea to menacing by stalking and attempted intimidation of an attorney, ...
Over 600 youth attended the Leeonia Sportsman Club Kids Day Saturday, trying their hands at activities such as fishing, canoeing, bird house building, target shooting, archery and slingshot. Food was provided for everybody. (Photos by Gary Leininger)
Photos by Gary Leininger
SALEM — The parks commission will review non-bargaining employee salaries in an upcoming special meeting. The parks commission will be meeting at 11 a.m. Wednesday to discuss potential cost of living raises and wage differentials for non-bargaining department employees. During the most recent commission meeting, Mayor Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey asked if the department would be giving raises to its remaining non-bargaining employees. She said that if the department would be giving raises, the commissioners would need to decide soon how much they would so it could be included in the ...
