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Zappitelli is new principal at CHS
The Conneaut Area City Schools District gained a new principal but learned at Monday night's meeting it will lose its treasurer at the end of the year.
County awards road paving contract
Paving projects dominated the short agenda of the Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday.
Salem youth dies after Beaver Creek.....
A 17-year old Salem youth died after he fell nearly 100 feet down a cliff in Beaver Creek State Park Tuesday afternoon.
Salvation Army Jefferson Service Unit in desperate need of more donations
It has only been six months since Christmas, but the emergency funds raised through the Salvation Army Jefferson Service Unit kettle campaign are used up.
Tough economic times have taken their toll on a popular, beachside entertainment.
OVI Task Force to resume checkpoints
It only takes a couple of drinks to impair a person's driving skills, creating a potentially deadly situation.
Motorcycle passengera s death ruled homicide
The death of a Thompson Township woman, following a Sunday morning motorcycle crash, was declared a homicide, said Coroner's Investigator Richard Mongell Monday.
Feeding strays can cause problems for people, pets
Dear Dr. Thompson: I have been feeding some of the stray cats in the neighborhood.
It was a bittersweet Family Math Night at Thurgood Marshall School March 19. Approximately four dozen families came out for the event which was designed to help parents make learning math concepts fun at home.
Council asking for federal stimulus funds for lights
The Springboro City Council passed a resolution March 19 supporting application for federal stimulus funds, including $198,000 already approved for updated street lighting on Ohio 73 and Ohio 741 .
Deaths of spa co-owner Stacy DiJulius and friend Erich Schultz leave questions
Stacy DiJulius was a volunteer in search of a cause, a hair stylist who gained fame leading John Robert's Spa while quietly working to help animals and abused women.
Commissioners want to join Eastgate
Ashtabula County commissioners Tuesday evening approved a resolution to obtain membership in the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments.
Person family paid then dumped dead horses into icy creek
Law-enforcement authorities are close to solving the mystery of two dead horses found submerged in a creek along South Windsor Road Extension in February.
Felony Sentencings: Probation assigned in drug cases
These people were sentenced recently in Richland County Common Pleas Court: Allen M. Hairston, 25, 347 Fair St., three years probation and a $1,000 fine for trafficking in drugs .
Negotiations continue on Conneaut fire station lease
City officials are attempting to cut ties with the landlord that owns the building used by a municipal fire station, said Law Director Lori Lamer.
GOTL fire chief questions dispatching
Village Fire Chief Tim Mills' strong objection to the proposed fire and ambulance dispatching agreement with Saybrook Township thwarted plans to ink the deal Monday night, sending the safety committee back to ...
A black bear must have been looking for something to wash down his porridge with Friday night along Garrison Road.
Ashtabula County commissioners gave the domestic motor-vehicle industry a $179,928 vote of confidence Tuesday with the purchase of two 2010 Mack dump trucks.
Creek Road renovation work greatly strengthened bridge
The Creek Road Bridge, located on the western edge of Conneaut, is the county's only extant covered bridge with an uncertain construction date.
Controversial Geauga power lines may be reconsidered
The state board that decides where new electrical power lines are built will consider Monday whether to re-hear the case for its previous decision that allows highly controversial First-Energy-proposed power ...