Ross Gallabrese: Growth in the area
If you haven't noticed, there's a lot of development happening in our area. Expansion at Franciscan Square is continuing, with five new restaurants — Scooter's Coffee, Auntie Anne's, Jamba, Buffalo Wild Wings Go and Cinnabon — joining the Harp and Habbit, Rubi's Pizza and Grill and Jimmy John's. That makes the complex on University Boulevard a convenient place to stop for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a quick snack. A little bit farther down the hill, the Franciscan University of Steubenville's latest project is well under way. Sitting across from Franciscan Square, the facility is ...
Ross Gallabrese: Living united
For many years now, the United Way of Jefferson County has opened its annual campaign with an event that encourages area residents to come together and help the organizations that help others across the community. It's been known by a couple of names — it started as the Day of Caring and has now grown into a Day of Action. Whatever it has been called, it's always held a special place on the organization's calendar. This year was no different. Volunteers, board members and other associated with the United Way and its member agencies gathered on Aug. 27 in Hellenic Hall at the Holy ...
Ross Gallabrese: Election battles heat up
Now that just about every area school has opened for the academic year, the Jefferson County Fair has wrapped up its 155th run and teams in Ohio are completing the second week of the high school football season, we can expect to see this year's election campaigns really begin to heat up. That's not really unusual. Labor Day, which this year falls on Sept. 7 and comes as late as it can, usually is when politics starts to get really exciting, especially in a year like this, when Ohio will be attracting even more attention than it normally does on the national level. Winning the state is ...
Ross Gallabrese: Statewide candidates still showing interest in community
Some thoughts ... • While election season has not really started to heat up yet, there still has been plenty of activity around the area. In the past two weeks, we have seen visits from a candidate for governor — Democrat Amy Acton — both of Ohio's candidates for the U.S. Senate — Republican Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown —and one of the candidates for secretary of state — Democrat Allison Russo. That sort of activity shows that candidates and their parties still are interested in our part of the state and what the residents here have to say. When you consider ...