From staff reports
STEUBENVILLE – The filing deadline for the May 4 primary election passed Wednesday with only a handful of candidates locally throwing their hats in the ring.
Steubenville residents currently have one contested race and two levies to decide when they go to the polls in May.
A 1-mill levy renewal also is on the ballot for voters in the Bantam Ridge, Brentwood, Cross Creek and West Park precincts.
In Steubenville: Incumbent 4th Ward Councilman Scott Dressel, 411 Madison St., will battle Royal Mayo, 544 Highland Ave., for the Democratic nomination. No one filed on the Republican ticket. Incumbent 2nd Ward Councilman Craig Petrella, 1665 Moreland Drive, is unopposed on the Democratic ticket in the primary election. He’ll square off with Republican Tracy McManamon, 616 Belleview Blvd., in November.
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FORGING AHEAD Scott Dressel stands outside the Grand Theater at 121 S. Fourth St., Steubenville, and inside the annex, below, where restoration of the theater’s original Wurlizter pipe organ continues. Ten years into the overall undertaking he worked to initiate and lead in the establishment of the Grand Theater Restoration Project, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed by a group of local citizens, Dressel remains an optimist and visionary that the piece of local history will one day thrive as a performing arts center and downtown attraction. Janice Kiaski
STEUBENVILLE Tens years in to the Grand Theater Restoration Project, Scott Dressel can still close his eyes and visualize the finished product.
jkiaski@heraldstaronline.com
FORGING AHEAD â Scott Dressel stands outside the Grand Theater at 121 S. Fourth St., Steubenville, and inside the annex, below, where restoration of the theaterâs original Wurlizter pipe organ continues. Ten years into the overall undertaking he worked to initiate and lead in the establishment of the Grand Theater Restoration Project, an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed by a group of local citizens, Dressel remains an optimist and visionary that the piece of local history will one day thrive as a performing arts center and downtown attraction. Janice Kiaski
STEUBENVILLE Tens years in to the Grand Theater Restoration Project, Scott Dressel can still close his eyes and visualize the finished product.
Staff writer
STEUBENVILLE The city’s sanitation department is going back to its old twice-a-year bulk pickup schedule.
The city had tried an on-demand format this year allowing customers who are current on their water bills to call and schedule their personal bulk pickup on a Friday of their choosing but, for whatever reason, a lot of them waited until the end of 2020 to take advantage of the service.
Third Ward Councilman Eric Timmons said the open scheduling concept “was a good idea, in theory.”
“But it just overloaded our system, we couldn’t handle it,” he said. “I think it’s time to go back to the bulk pickups. But either way, I think our citizens deserve two pickups a year – if not, you’re going to see garbage accumulate all over the city. I see it now and we still have pickups, so it’s definitely needed.”