Andover, Ohio

• The joys of spring weather, except for the litter
  

  Spring arrived late last week in Ashtabula County. Who didn't get excited about the snow melting, some warm sunshine and the opportunity to throw our coats off and have some fun? Oh, to be a kid again and relive the thrill of taking the first bicycle ride of the season on a day just like Friday.

• Glen Warner hooked as new fish commish
  

  Glen Warner is this year's Wine & Walleye Festival goodwill ambassador. This position, known as the fish commish, has been a fun way to promote and support the city's Wine & Walleye Festival, featuring the area's award-winning wines and world-class fishing.

• Fake money suspects nabbed
  

  Geneva Police are closing in on suspects in the recent wave of counterfeit money passed in the Geneva area, Police Chief Dan Dudik said Thursday.

• A Don McCormack column: Frankly, some good guys step up
  

  Paying another visit to the variety store... Good people One of the most well-liked and respected gentlemen to have darkened the doors here at the Star Beacon is Tom Harris.

• Fundraising solicitation for laid-off deputies under scrutiny
  

  "Russ" dialed the wrong number Thursday evening. The telephone solicitor made the mistake of calling the secretary-treasurer of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 114 while attempting to solicit money for laid-off Ashtabula County Sheriff's Department deputies.

• Polar Bear Plunge honors teen killed in hit-skip crash
  

  WARREN DILLAWAY / Star Beacon GAYLE AVALLONE and Richard Moretti prepare to release balloons in honor of Moretti's daughter, Melanie K. Moretti, who was killed in a December hit- skip accident.

• Historical society hopes to borrow anvil from Smithsonian Institution
  

  A piece of Ashtabula County history waits in a storage room at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and Cher Shepherd wants to bring it home.

• Geneva agrees on project engineering fees
  

  The city will pay CT Consultants more than $166,000 in combined engineering fees for the Ansel Road, Lockwood Street, East Tibbitts, West Liberty Street, Sherman Street and Eastwood Street construction projects, City Council decided Monday.

• Firefighters respond to West Seventh Street house fire Monday
  

  Smoke billowed through the sky Monday night as neighbors snapped pictures from the street and firefighters poured water on a home at 1634 W. Seventh St.

• New concrete box to replace bridge over Greenway Trail
  

  By the end of November, a new concrete box 208 feet in length will replace the Austinburg Road bridge over the Western Reserve Greenway Trail.

• Pierpont Township residents want out
  

  Voters will determine if Pierpont Township will be removed from the Buckeye Local School District and become part of the Pymatuning Valley Local School District.

• Many help battle blaze
  

  Firefighters from Ohio and Pennsylvania fought a house fire at 6309 Leon Road for most of Monday morning, said Eric Fabian, an emergency medical technician for the Andover Fire Department.

• Ashtabula begins turning dilapidated houses into rubble
  

  By SHELLEY TERRY - Staff Writer - sterry@starbeacon.com ASHTABULA - There's a celebration afoot in the 500 block of West 36th Street.

• County grand jury indicts 12
  

  An Andover Township man was indicted for attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault and tampering with evidence stemming from a Dec.

• Academy Award nominees listed
  

  In this image released by 20th Century Fox, writer-director James Cameron, foreground right, reviews a scene with actors, from left, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore and Sam Worthington during the filming of, "Avatar." Cameron was nominated Tuesday, Feb.

• Petition drive starts again as wrong date discovered
  

  In its first week of activity, the referendum committee to put the sales-tax increase before voters garnered thousands of votes.

• OHP no substitute for deputies, agencies agree
  

  While Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers are willing to lend any police agency a hand, they can't replace 16 Ashtabula County Sheriff's Department deputies laid off earlier this week, said Lt.

• Pymatuning home to popular heavy metal band
  

  Walking down the hallway on any given day at Pymatuning Valley High School, one might find perhaps 30 percent of the student body wearing maroon and gold.

• Commissioners look to CFA for more money
  

  Ashtabula County commissioners Daniel Claypool and Peggy Carlo asked the county's Convention Facilities Authority, Friday morning, to give any available funds from the bed tax to the county to assist with lodge debt this year.

City Description

Andover is a village located in the south-east of Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,269 at the 2000 census. The closest village to the Ohio side of Pymatuning State Park, the settlement supports a regional tourism industry. Andover was incorporated in 1883. David Lindsey, writing in 1955, observes that "New England Yankees, moving into Ohio's Western Reserve in 1798, brought with them the name Andover from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut, birthplace of many of the migrants. General Henry Champion, second largest shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, first acquired Andover Township in the drawing for lands held at Hartford in 1798." A post office with the name Sharon was established August 2, 1815; the name was changed to Andover with effect from March 21, 1826. Andover is located at 41°36′28″N 80°34′15″W / 41.60778°N 80.57083°W / 41.60778; -80.57083 (41.607744, -80.570729). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.5 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,269 people, 427 households, and 271 families residing in the village. The population density was 929.2

City Contained By:

• Ashtabula County
• Ohio

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 3.62598335447 km squared

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