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jcatullo@heraldstaronline.com UP AND OVER — Steubenville’s Kylie Maxwell attempts a shot over Beaver Local’s Cami Starkey during Wednesday’s contest. (Photo by Joe Catullo) STEUBENVILLE — The Steubenville girls basketball team easily had a size advantage over Beaver Local, and it took full advantage on Wednesday. Big Red collected 28 more rebounds than the Beavers, limited its turnovers and drove to the paint at will for a 54-33 victory to conclude the Watt/Nese Holiday Basketball Classic. “It wasn’t just about the kids on the floor. Everybody got involved and cheered their team...

tgiambroni@reviewonline.com CALCUTTA — Beaver Local has joined the growing list of school districts that are switching to all-remote learning when classes resume following Christmas break. Superintendent Eric Lowe announced at Monday’s school board meeting that all students will learn from home for the first two weeks of 2021 and return to the classroom on Jan. 19 in an attempt to buy more time against the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Although the number of people testing positive for the first two weeks following Thanksgiving remained flat statewide, it increased by 21 percent locally, ...

tgiambroni@mojonews.com CALCUTTA — Beaver Local has joined the growing list of school districts that are switching to all-remote learning when classes resume following Christmas break. Superintendent Eric Lowe announced at Monday’s school board meeting that all students will learn from home for the first two weeks of 2021 and return to the classroom on Jan. 19 in an attempt to buy more time against the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Although the number of people testing positive for the first two weeks following Thanksgiving remained flat statewide, it increased by 21 percent locally, acco...

tgiambroni@mojonews.com CALCUTTA — Beaver Local is going to remote learning for two days heading into the Christmas break in the hopes the extra time will work to its benefit when the school district resumes in-person classes on Jan. 4. Beaver Local’s Christmas break is scheduled to begin Dec. 23 and run through Jan. 3. Superintendent Eric Lowe made the decision late last week to have all students learn online from home on Dec. 21-22 because doing this gives in-person students and staff a longer break at a time when the number of COVID-19 virus cases have been increasing. “These couple ...

Dec 16, 2020 Over the last year, hundreds of children’s books were collected on the Kent State East Liverpool Campus that were intended to be handed out during the city’s annual holiday parade. When the parade was canceled this year because of the COVID pandemic, campus employees decided to find another way to distribute the books to local youngsters. Through a project known as Season’s Readings, Kent State East Liverpool recently donated nearly 1,500 new books combined to East Liverpool’s North Elementary School, Beaver Local elementary students and to the East Liverpool Head Start p...