Steubenville Municipal Judge John Mascio administered the oath of service Thursday to Christopher Smith and Laken Ward, the city’s newest firefighter/EMTs. Pictured after the ceremony are, from left, City Manager Mike Johnson, Fire Chief Joe Ribar, Smith, Ward and Mascio.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – From Past to Present Quilt Shop is asking residents to donate their pet food bags so it can make shoulder bags to sell and raise money for area animal rescue entities. Co-owner Joyce Paglialunga said she got the idea to upcycle the used bags through social media. “We ...
STEUBENVILLE — Former East Springfield firefighters John Andrew-Scott Dunkle, 50, and Steve Brian Harris, 52, have been convicted in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court of stealing nearly $30,000 from the department they’d sworn to serve. The jury found Harris, then treasurer of the department, responsible for misappropriating $20,000 of the squad’s funds and Dunkle, the department’s president from 2019-2020, for around $8,000. Prosecutors had argued that Harris took money from the fire department’s coffers to pay his own electric bills, withdrew thousands more from ATM ...
Election board to meet STEUBENVILLE — The April meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Elections will be Monday beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Tower building, 500 Market St. Soup, sandwich sale set WELLSBURG — The Altar and Rosary Society of St John Evangelist Church, 1300 Charles ...
Police Beat Steubenville Police Big foot: A resident in the 1400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue reported a breaking and entering Monday. The resident said he returned home from work to discover a back window had been removed and “there was a footprint on the backdoor as well where it appeared someone tried to kick it in.” He thinks it was his ex-girlfriend who did it. Connected the dots: A woman in the 200 block of S. 5th Street told police Tuesday she thinks a man is living in her basement even though she told him to leave. She said she had told him he could stay in her basement ...
STEUBENVILLE — City Council is looking for ways to crack down on delinquent utility customers. With a water rate discussion on the docket later this month, Councilman-at-large Joel Walker asked City Manager Mike Johnson to compile a list of delinquent utility accounts. “In the near future we’re going to have a meeting discussing the water rates in the city,” Walker said. “I was wondering if you can get us a list of all delinquent accounts and the names of the people associated with them so we have that when we start discussing water rates.” He also asked Law Director Costa ...
