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Dr. Marcela Purtell returns to SRMC Primary Care-Calcutta

SALEM – Salem Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has announced that Family Medicine physician Marcela Purtell, M.D., will resume seeing patients on May 20 at SRMC Primary Care-Calcutta, located at 48462 Bell School Road. A familiar face to many local families, Purtell previously served the ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Ronald P. and Carla J. Bates to Danielle M. and George W. Strawn, home on state Route 9; $285,000 Center Township Elizabeth J. Rainey (trustee) to Bradley and Zarah Suciu, 57.498 acre farm on U.S. Route 30; $250,000 TVT Devco I LLC to Futronics Inc, other commercial structures on Steubenville Pike Road; $45,000 Michael T. Foster to Allan McGivern, home on state Route 45; $225,000 Columbiana Kathy A. Seybert to Betsy McCoy, condo on Springfield Road; $178,500 East Liverpool Stefan B. Chappell and Ashley L. Curran to Ashley L. Curran, home on Florence Street; ...

THE COURTS

Common Pleas NEW CASES Belinda M. Padurean, Stookesberry Road, Lisbon, and Justin M. Padurean, New Cumberland, W.Va.,; dissolution sought. Jerry J. Heavener, Youngstown, and Deborah Heavener, Youngstown; dissolution sought. Selene Finance, LP, Dallas, Texas, vs. Robbin K. Nelson, South Vine Street, Columbiana, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for South Vine Street, Columbiana property. R.E. Michel Company, LLC, Baltimore, Md., vs. R.C.I Heating LLC, state Route 518, Hanoverton, and Ronald C. Ingledue, Meister Road, Hanoverton; collection sought of alleged $7,950 debt. Westlake ...

Salem man accused of raping children to have competency evaluated

LISBON —A Salem man accused of rape and multiple other sex-related acts against two children was ordered evaluated for competency during a hearing Friday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court. Mark E. Knight, 57, North Ellsworth Avenue, appeared via video from the county jail for the status hearing before Judge Megan Bickerton. His defense attorney, Terry Grenga, had filed a motion last month requesting a psychiatric evaluation and reiterated that request in court. When asked by the judge, county Assistant Prosecutor Steve Yacovone said he had no objection. Bickerton granted the ...