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Elections board to meet STEUBENVILLE — The monthly meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Elections will be Monday at 9:30 a.m. in the Tower building, 500 Market Street, Steubenville. Toronto board will meet TORONTO — Toronto City Schools Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday. The meeting will be held in the library at Toronto Junior-Senior High School. SVRTA meets Thursday STEUBEVILLE — The Steel Valley Regional Transit Authority will hold its regular board meeting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday. The meeting will be held at the Robert J. Cutri, Modal ...

Historic Fort Steuben to host final series lecture

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STEUBENVILLE — What was it really like to fight as a soldier during the American Revolution? How did military tactics shape the battlefield and what role did Baron Friedrich von Steuben play in transforming the Continental Army into a more disciplined and effective fighting force? These questions will be explored during the final lecture in Historic Fort Steuben's America 250 Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fort Steuben Visitor Center. Titled "Infantry and Battle in the Age of Baron Steuben," the presentation will be given by Alexander S. Burns, assistant professor at ...

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STEUBENVILLE POLICE Touchy: A handyman tasked with doing some work at a property in the 900 block of Sherman Avenue was at odds Wednesday with a neighbor who didn’t want him moving things she’d put in the empty lot so kids could play. She said she had an agreement with the previous owner that she could use the site and she didn’t want anyone touching it. The handyman said the owner wanted him to paint the building so he needed to move some things for his ladder. Police said the caller didn’t want the handyman to move anything but when she refused to do it herself, they told him ...

Stanton promotes positivity with school store

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HAMMONDSVILLE — Stanton Elementary School is promoting positivity by rewarding good deeds by students with a chance to shop at their school store. Principal Kodi Peterson said the program got underway at the beginning of the school year as a way to bolster the school and district's mission ...

Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Celebrates 115 Years

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When Father Jason Charron, Pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Ukrainian Catholic Church looks around his church and its congregation, celebrating 115 years this Sunday, he sees the formula that has allowed for more than a century of success. He calls it the "three S's" -- small, ...

Fluharty Gets Endorsement From W.Va. Chamber PAC

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Del. Shawn Fluharty has received an endorsement in the race for West Virginia Senate District 1 that Democrats don't often earn. Fluharty has received an endorsement from the West Virginia Chamber PAC, the political action committee for the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, confirmed by a letter Fluharty received from the state Chamber at the end of September. "The Chamber PAC supports candidates who will work to improve education outcomes and foster an environment where businesses can grow and create jobs," wrote West Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Stephen Roberts in the ...