Morning Journal/Michael S. Burich
Mischief at Mirror Lake has come to Columbianaâs attention.
COLUMBIANA City Manager Lance Willard announced at Tuesday’s council meeting that the issue with the gas aggregation supplier going out of market which broke contract has been resolved. Efforts to reverse charges were successful after the city made objections. Willard explained that he is happy to announce that adjustments will be made.
“They are going to abide by that contract which is a fixed rate and our residents will get money back one way or another on their accounts,” Willard said.
In other business, Ron Detwiler, Park Recreation and Cemetery Board president, said there are eight current projects at Firestone Park. Two more projects will take place this summer.
Updated 1/13/2021 5:44 AM
Rosemont has reorganized its public safety department command staff after the still-mysterious departure of Superintendent Donald E. Stephens III.
William Anderson, named acting superintendent when Stephens III began a leave of absence in September, has been formally appointed to the civilian role of director of public safety by Mayor Brad Stephens.
Anderson had some three decades on the force before retiring as a deputy chief, then joining the Rosemont Convention & Tourism Bureau as general manager. He ll earn an annual salary of $135,000, an increase of $20,000 from what he was paid at the convention bureau. Stephens III had been making $217,000 a year.
Mary Posch decorated for Christmas. She knew that if her husband came home from the hospital, he would welcome the sight.
Donald Posch had been baking Christmas cookies with his wife, Mary, in early November when the two of them initially came down with cold-like symptoms. By mid-month, Posch had stopped eating and was barely drinking.
But he never got out. Instead, hours before he died in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, she was finally allowed at his bedside and told her partner of more than 30 years what she knew he needed to hear. Don, she said, if you re ready to go, I will be fine.