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CONNEAUT – Ashtabula County Prosecutor Nick Iarocci’s decision to run for Conneaut Municipal Court Judge in November was not a rash decision.
It is in many ways a leap of faith.

JEFFERSON – Sixteen-year-old Andrew Hamper was honored with his new title as Division 5 “Young Marine of the Year” through the national youth organization, The Young Marines.

JEFFERSON - Ashtabula County Auditor David Thomas is announcing that his office has begun the 2020 sexennial (six year) reappraisal.

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP - Harleigh Hodge, instructor of A-Tech’s Software & Application Design program, focuses on fundamentals that underpin the process of developing and coding an application or website. “Technology is changing quarterly,” she says. “There are a lot of core fundamentals of development that are necessary and consistent through all software development. That’s what we teach them, the core principles.”

ASHTABULA – Kids for Positive Change (KPC) will present its “Earthbench for a Better World” project and “The Last Straw Ashtabula Project” at Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Showcase on March 23 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, Illinois.

KINGSVILLE TOWNSHIP – The snipping of a red ribbon officially marked PCS, or Person-Centered Services, as the new service provider of Ash/Craft Industries and Greenhouse.
Hosted by Greater Ashtabula Chamber of Commerce Director Greg Church, and part of a four-hour open house of facilities serving Ashtabula County’s developmentally disabled adults, the ceremony took place inside the reception area of Ash/Craft Industries at 2505 Green Road at 12:30 p.m. March 14.

MADISON VILLAGE – Carol Billetter, Madison Senior Center director, presented her departmental report at the March 4 council meeting.

PAINESVILLE – Council suspended the rules and passed a resolution authorizing a property management agreement with Lake Metroparks for the development and management of two parcels owned by the City of Painesville at the March 4 meeting.

FAIRPORT HARBOR – Village residents can look forward to some area improvements this year as reported at the March 5 council meeting.

PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP – The Board of Trustees was advised about a recent fire at its March 5 meeting.

CONCORD TOWNSHIP - Fire Chief Matt Sabo invited the Board of Trustees and the public to a special event at the March 6 trustees meeting.

LAKE COUNTY – The Board of Commissioners approved seeking proposals from agencies for one to administer and manage in-home care services for seniors at the March 7 meeting.

KIRTLAND – The Willoughby Planning Commission and Willoughby Council, and others, learned the difference between the words “review” and “revoke” the hard way. As a result, residents of Willoughby, Kirtland, Kirtland Hills and Waite Hill who live in the vicinity of the Kirtland Country Club (39438 Kirtland Rd. in Willoughby) have been waging an uphill legal battle trying to get relief from the weekend skeet shooting at KCC.

  For the second time in school history the Edgewood High School Warriors boys basketball team made it to the regional semifinals, but fell short to the Mogadore Wildcats by a final score of 69 to 65 on Wednesday night.

LAKE COUNTY – The Board of Commissioners passed a resolution at the Feb. 28 meeting accepting the Feb. 23 resignation of auditor-elect Edward H. Zupancic.

PAINESVILLE - Remarkable Lake County Night with the Mentor Ice Breakers takes place at the Mentor Civic Ice Arena Friday, March 22. Doors open at 6:35 p.m.

ORWELL – Mitchell Lake takes over as the head coach of the Grand Valley Mustangs softball team. Lake had worked as a junior varsity coach for the Mustangs last season.

JEFFERSON - Seth Gilman enters his third season as the head coach of the Jefferson Falcons softball team.

Scott Barber returns as the head coach of the Jefferson Falcons baseball team.

Lessons learned and shared this week. I was an attendee and a speaker at the 7th Annual Southeast Regional Drug Prevention Summit. The summit was hosted by the National Drug Free Foundation! I found this experience to be very rewarding on a personal and professional level.

Hello, Ashtabula County! This week I wanted to take an opportunity to speak to an endeavor that just kicked off this past week.

MENTOR – Ohio’s new law allowing use of medical marijuana to treat certain illnesses is complex and considered to be incomplete, according to a consultant who spoke to Lake County chambers of commerce members March 6.

ANDOVER – Do you know an individual, organization or business that deserves to be honored for their volunteer work or outstanding community service this year? (From March 22 edition).

ANDOVER – Following a discussion that took place at a work session, Andover Village Council brought up briefly the idea of whether it wants to change the name of John Overly Recreation Park during a meeting on Tuesday, March 12, within the village hall.(From March 22 edition).

ANDOVER – Several members of the community gathered together on Thursday, March 14, to discuss this year’s Andover Police Auxiliary/PACOC Easter Egg Hunt as scheduled for the community of Andover.
Those in attendance that evening included President of Andover Police Auxiliary Lisa Gentry, Police Chief Christopher Baker, PACOC President Lara Reibold and volunteers Juanita Rider and Marie Broughton.

 KINSMAN – If you’re looking for a closer location to find the products you need for your main mode of transportation you may want to check out A.G. Birrell Company’s new auto parts store at their location of 8211 Main Street in Kinsman.

 ANDOVER – A persuasive piece on why you should adopt a pet from an animal shelter received the most points, thus granting it the win as presented by Pymatuning Valley High School senior Brooke Hancock on Monday, March 18, during Andover Rotary Club’s annual 4-Way Speech contest at Scooters by the Lake.(From March 22 edition).

 ORWELL – The Grand Valley Interfaith Services are readying for its fourth community cross walk/service once again this year as held on Good Friday, April 19, within Orwell.(From March 22 edition).

ANDOVER – As part of its annual tradition, the Pymatuning Valley Ministerial Society will once again host its Good Friday Cross Walk event in Andover at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19, two days before Easter.(From March 22 edition).

MENTOR - The Paradigm Building was the site for the 2019 State of the City Address for Mentor. It seemed fitting given the definition of paradigm is the standard, example, or archetype, and the bustling suburb of Mentor has often fit that mold.

MENTOR - The Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce annual State of the City meeting started with Neil Stein, chair of the Board of the Mentor Area Chamber of Commerce, welcoming everyone.