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Red Hats Celebrate Halloween

Contributed The LaBonne Vie Chapter of the Red Hats Society held its October meeting and Halloween Party at Scaffidi's Restaurant and Tavern. The members enjoyed seeing each other's costumes and a variety of drawing prizes were given away. The Thanksgiving celebration will be held Nov. 19. ...

Tax season isn't as far away as it may seem

STEUBENVILLE — With the end of the year less than two months away and the deadline for filing you income tax return a little more than five months away, it's probably not too early to be thinking about what goes into doing taxes. That reminder came from Curtis Mullins Jr. while speaking ...

Daily Happenings for Nov. 3

POLICE REPORTS STEUBENVILLE POLICE Food fight: A woman unhappy with her food order refused to leave the restaurant Sunday. She told police she wanted her full purchase refunded “due to the poor food quality,” complaining it was “soggy and cold.” She said when she asked the business to redo her order, she was told it could take “40 to 50 minutes” and when the manager started arguing with her, “she just asked for a refund.” The manager said she told the customer it would take 72 hours for the refund to process and the customer “kept most of the order and only wanted a ...

Steubenville officials optimistic grant funds will cover costly MLK roof replacement

STEUBENVILLE — A new roof for the Martin Luther King recreation center is likely to cost around $240,000, but the good news is city officials are optimistic most — if not all — the cost could be covered by grants. City Manager Mike Johnson said the engineering work alone will cost around $34,000, but it will be covered by a grant secured through Mayor Ralph Petrella’s participation in the Mayor’s Partnership for Progress. “We got an estimate from a construction company, a roofing company, that it would be roughly $200,000 to replace the weight room roof and the gymnasium ...