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Girard to proceed with ARP funds for Wellman Theater

GIRARD - Wanting to make sure they use the remaining nearly $70,000 in American Rescue Plan funds before the end of the year, council approved having Engineer Zach Teter proceed with work at the Wellman Theater on West Liberty Street. Teter said at Tuesday's council meeting the $70,000 is what remains of the ARP funds the city received. All ARP funds must be used by the end of the year or must be returned to the federal government, which granted the money to the state during the pandemic. The state disbursed the funds to counties, who then disbursed funds to their local communities. ...

Lawsuits filed for nondisclosure of possible long-term health effects from derailment

LISBON — A Cleveland law firm filed 10 additional lawsuits recently on behalf of area residents against their attorneys, a doctor and others they say failed to disclose the possible long-term health impacts from the 2023 East Palestine train derailment. The latest lawsuits were filed Friday afternoon in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court by an attorney with Winter Trimacco Co., with many of the same claims of a similar lawsuit filed last month. The causes of action outlined in the lawsuit included legal malpractice, claiming the attorneys acted for their own benefit, breach of ...

Weathersfield approves policy for absent trustees to approve meeting minutes

WEATHERSFIELD- Township trustees have adopted a resolution that establishes procedures for the review and approval of meeting minutes, including allowing a trustee who was absent from a meeting to still approve and sign the minutes. Township Administrator David Rouan said a trustee who was absent at a meeting asked if he still able to approve them in accordance with Ohio law and Ohio attorney general opinion. Rouan said the Ohio attorney general ruled that a board of trustees may establish the procedure for approving meeting minutes. The board of trustees also can establish the rules ...

Eastern Gateway defendants plead not guilty

STEUBENVILLE — Former Eastern Gateway Community College President Mike Geoghegan and two alleged co-conspirators entered pleas of not guilty Wednesday before their attorneys settled in for an almost 60-minute-long hearing on what, if any, contact the three of them can have with each other, ...

Trumbull County’s first anti-SLAPP motion filed

VIENNA - The defendant in a lawsuit alleging that reputational harm was caused because of false statements in a review published online earlier this year is pushing back. Attorney Brian Bardwell of Speech Law LLC, on behalf of Julie Watson, filed a motion Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for expedited relief dismissing claims against her made by Vienna-based Starr Manufacturing. The motion, a special petition a defendant can file under the state's anti-Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation laws, is the first instance of the state's anti-SLAPP legislation being ...

Local doctor donates $1.25M to YSU nursing program

YOUNGSTOWN - Dr. Chander M. Kohli, a prominent local neurosurgeon and former chair of the Youngstown State University Board of Trustees, has donated $1.25 million to YSU’s Centofanti School of Nursing, located within the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, in honor of his late ...