Birthdays
Oct. 2 Tom O’Okrita, Newell
Briefs
Council changes budget hearings STEUBENVILLE — Due to scheduling conflicts, Steubenville City Council has shuffled its budget hearing lineup. Council, sitting as the finance committee, will hear from Municipal Court, maintenance of repair, sanitation and electric on Tuesday, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Then, on Oct. 20, proposed budgets for engineering, street projects and the water and sewer departments will be pitched beginning at 6 p.m. On Oct. 27, council will hear from the police department as well as parks and recreation. Council also sunshined emergency legislation adopting ...
Police reports
STEUBENVILLE POLICE Extremely bad break: An officer at a stop sign at South and Fourth streets reported seeing a motorcycle and a vehicle southbound on Seventh Street “at a high rate of speed” Tuesday. He followed the two of them and said the car had stopped and the driver was “throwing items from the vehicle.” The driver, a woman, told police she was following her ex-boyfriend “because they are going through a bad break-up.” Police couldn’t locate him but she ended up picking up the items she’d tossed out of the vehicle. Striking first: A Market Street resident ...
Birthdays
Sept. 30 Nancy Prosser, Toronto Brian Crites, Redmond, Wash.
Police Reports
STEUBENVILLE POLICE Worked up: An employee at Sunset Market Deli reports a man was “calling and making threats to rob the store” Monday. The clerk advised he used Apple Pay at a pump and on his phone it said the transaction completed but “the pump would not activate and said his card was declined.” She printed off the receipt which said the transaction was canceled but the male demanded the store give him $20 worth of gas and when she refused, “he became very aggressive and shoved his cell phone towards her face to show her the transaction.” She advised the transaction ...
Birthdays
Sept. 29 Kay Shannon, Steubenville Jeremy Porter, Mingo Junction