Dorset News

The following communities have scheduled times for Halloween trick or treat. If your area is not listed contact your local officials.

A wet and gloomy October hit a new low Friday with the first snowfall of the 2009-2010 season, according to reports.

Bells will be ringing during Jefferson Days to help fill The Salvation Army Jefferson Service Unit "watering cans" for the back-to-school clothing program.

It was blunt force trauma to the head and neck as a result of a motor vehicle accident that claimed the life of 12-year-old Alexis Kittelson, Mentor-on-the-Lake, late Thursday afternoon, according to the preliminary autopsy reports from Ashtabula County Coroner's Office.

A 12-year-old Mentor-on-the-Lake girl was killed and her two brothers injured Thursday in a crash of two cars and a buggy.

A 12-year-old Mentor-on-the-Lake girl is dead following a traffic accident late Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Stanhope-Kellogsville and Footville-Richmond roads in Ashtabula County, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Belt-tightening caused by the nation's sour economy hasn't put a dent in the Multiple Sclerosis Bike Tour, an annual, two-day event that will bring hundreds of bicyclists to Conneaut this weekend, organizers said.

It was just like old times for grocery-store veteran Mary Oliver. On Wednesday afternoon, she was ringing up groceries, chatting with customers and processing credit cards just like she had done for the decades prior to her retirement 17 months ago.

Unlike the no-show response to the first hearing, the second and final hearing on the board of commissioners' proposal to raise the county's transfer tax drew a choir of protest.