Public housing questions asked

Dave Gossett LISTENING — Members of the Hilltop Community Development Corp. listen to the discussion Wednesday at the Jefferson Metropolitan Housing Authority board meeting. Attending the meeting were CDC members, from left, Delores Wiggins, Teresa DiCarlontonio, Carlotta Jordan and Ed Quinn.

STEUBENVILLE — City Manager Bruce Williams urged his fellow commissioners on the Jefferson Metropolitan Housing Authority to work with citizen groups and city officials to resolve public housing issues.

It was the second month in a row for Williams to publicly address what he called, “crime that follows Section 8 public housing.”

Following the 90-minute meeting, two members of the JMHA board of commissioners volunteered to meet as part of a new committee recently formed by the Hilltop Community Development Corp. to study public housing and its possible relationship to c

JMHA moving closer to purchase of Calabrese Towers

STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson Metropolitan Housing Authority moved one step closer to buying the Calabrese Towers residential facility on North Seventh Street.

JMHA Executive Director Joe Costantini received a resolution of approval Wednes

Honoring Hank

Sentence handed down in court

STEUBENVILLE — A man who had a loaded handgun in his pocket while he wrestled with a City Police officer and a Bergholz resident who escaped from a state correctional facility and stole a vehicle were sentenced to prison Wednesday.

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