Ashtabula, Ohio

• Structure fire hits Orwell
  

  A structure fire lit up Main Street Monday night. Orwell firefighters received the call of a structure fire at about 8:30 p.m., in the 200 block of East Main Street, according to reports.

• Memories of STONE
  

  CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon ELEANORE GANO loves to talk about the rock-hounding adventures she and her late husband, Jerold, enjoyed for more than 15 years after they retired.

• Damage hearing held in Julio suit
  

  A judge has been asked to put a dollar value on Internet chatter, which a Conneaut councilman has said inflicted emotional pain on himself and his family.

• Ashtabula County Red Cross set to honor heroes
  

  The Ashtabula County Chapter of the American Red Cross will honor local heroes at the annual Community Heroes Breakfast 9 to 11 a.m. March 20 at Mount Carmel Community Center.

• Conneaut fire committee will debut Thursday
  

  A citizens committee charged with examining the operations of the Conneaut Fire Department will convene its first meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, said City Council President Thomas Udell.

• Consequence could be suspension of law license
  

  Former City Solicitor Thomas Simon faces charges of misconduct, according to a complaint filed last month by the Ohio Supreme Court Disciplinary Counsel.

• Commissioners wrap up busy agenda meeting
  

  The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday, previously tabled in order to give local auto dealers a chance to bid against the state for a pickup truck purchase.

• Suspect charged with felonious assault in cutting incident
  

  The man police believe cut an Ashtabula man's throat Thursday during an argument over money made his initial appearance in court Friday.

• New fire station prospects get cold
  

  Odds are dwindling that the city of Conneaut will receive any federal money to replace its 134-year-old City Hall fire station.

• It's Girl Scout Cookie Time
  

  Troop leaders Monday lined up to pile up their Girl Scout cookies. Before the 60,000 cookies reach you, these sweet treats travel a long way The first of March marked the first day for cookie drops across northeast Ohio.

• Conneaut woman killed in Fla. motorcycle crash
  

  A Conneaut woman was killed and a city man critically injured when two motorcycles collided late Sunday afternoon in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., police said.

• Ashtabula idles snow plows to save money
  

  ASHTABULA, Ohio -- People living in one Ohio community are upset about a decision to suspend snow plowing over the weekend to save money.

• 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.

• Ashtabula Puts Freeze on Snow-Plows to Save Money
  

  City managers say in order to dig out of an $862,000 deficit, drivers will have to do a little digging of their own.

• Could see six to 12 inches by Friday night.
  

  A WINTER STORM WARNING is posted for much of northeast Ohio for potentially heavy snow.

• Police close to arrests in stabbing death
  

  Police detectives have interviewed two men in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 37-year-old Roaming Shores man, the Star Beacon confirmed Thursday.

• Ex-city resident charged with felonious assault
  

  The city prosecutor charged a former Ashtabula man with felonious assault Friday after his girlfriend suffered severe facial injuries during a fight at her West 38th Street home, according to police and Municipal Court records.

• Snow Watch: Winter Storm Watch for Ashtabula County
  

  WINTER STORM WATCH is in effect from Thursday morning through Friday afternoon for ASHTABULA .

• Venus Project comes to Ashtabula
  

  Imagine waking up Wednesday morning and discovering that all the money in the world disappeared.

City Description

Ashtabula is a city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States, and the center of the Ashtabula Micropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). A major location on the Underground Railroad in the middle 19th century, the city today is a major coal port on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Ashtabula River northeast of Cleveland. The name Ashtabula means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 20,962. Poet Carl Sandburg wrote a poem titled "Crossing Ohio when Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula." There is also a novel called The King from Ashtabula by Vern Sneider, published in 1960. Ashtabula hosts an annual Blessing of the Fleet Celebration, usually in late May or early June. As part of the celebration, a procession and prayer service is held at Ashtabula Harbor. Ashtabula was also home of the FinnFestUSA in 2007. Ashtabula was founded in 1803 and incorporated in 1891. The city contains several former stops on the Underground Railroad which was used to convey African-American slaves to freedom in Canada in the years before the American Civil War. Among the stops is Hubbard House, one of the

City Contained By:

• Ashtabula County
• Ohio

City Contains:

• Ashtabula Harbor Light
• Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District
• Col. William Hubbard House
• West Fifth Street Bridge

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 19.9429084496 km squared

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