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mgreier@salemnews.net Garbage regulations will be discussed when city council’s Rules and Ordinances Committee meets at 6 p.m. Jan. 12. “Everybody’s complaining about the trash not being picked up on time,” Councilwoman Cyndi Baronzzi Dickey said Tuesday night when contacted by phone. During the day, it was hard not to notice the overflowing trash containers with more bags and boxes piled on top and to the side sitting by curbs throughout the city. She said there have been complaints about noise, too, and some trucks are leaking on city streets. Dickey chairs the Rules & Ordinances Co...

mgreier@salemnews.net SALEM — Area residents, businesses, schools and community governments are beginning 2021 pretty much the same way they ended 2020 — masked up and armed with hand sanitizer. Wash your hands became the mantra, social distancing became the practice and cancellations of everything from the Salem Super Cruise to fireworks displays and the Summer Concert Series became the norm last year. Lives were lost to the pandemic, with many families in mourning — not in some far off place, but in Salem, Leetonia and many other local communities. With 2021 comes a new year and new h...

Staff Writer SALEM — City council agreed Tuesday to allow the writing off of $32,696 worth of uncollectible income tax accounts. Council members met in special session via Zoom to get the action done before the end of the year. The write-offs are one of many tasks the income tax department has been working to accomplish before shutting down and handing the keys to the Regional Income Tax Agency. RITA is taking over the administration and collection of city income taxes beginning Jan. 1, eliminating the tax office at city hall and ending the jobs for tax office employees. Mayor John Berlin s...

mgreier@salemnews.net SALEM — Inspection reports for Salem restaurants and food service establishments can be seen online, giving both health officials and area residents an advantage. “Good enforcement tool,” Salem city health district public information officer Lynle Hayes said. For residents, they can learn more about the places where they’re eating, such as who has a history of not following the rules and who gets good marks for cleanliness. The topic of the inspection reports and their availability online came up during a recent city health board meeting when city Health Commissi...

Staff Writer SALEM — Inspection reports for Salem restaurants and food service establishments can be seen online, giving both health officials and area residents an advantage. “Good enforcement tool,” Salem city health district public information officer Lynle Hayes said. For residents, they can learn more about the places where they’re eating, such as who has a history of not following the rules and who gets good marks for cleanliness. The topic of the inspection reports and their availability online came up during a recent city health board meeting when city Health Commissioner Alan...