Wellsville Flood Warning Cancelled.

Thursday - December 2: A Nixle early warning system message supplied by the CC Emergency Management Association announced that the flood warning for the Ohio River at Wellsville has been cancelled as of 4:59 AM today. With practically two days of steady rain a flood watch was changed to a flood warning yesterday.

According to the Nixle text message water was at 5.0' on the flood gage yesterday at 6 PM and water levels were predicted to crest at 9.0' this morning before receding. Flood stage for Wellsville is 11.0' on that gage.

The early warning Nixle system sends out text messages and e-mails to alert anyone signed on about pending situations. It's available and free to the public. For the Columbiana County area, efforts are coordinated by Darren Dodson and members of the CC EMA.

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Wellsville Ready To LIght Up the Christmas Season

Wednesday - December 1: With freezing temperatures and a little snow on the ground a group of volunteers got Wellsville ready for the Christmas Light-up Night. Sponsored by the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce, a 20' tall Christmas tree donated by Gary Lyle, was put up in the 4th Street Square. Wellsville Village employees cut the tree down and installed in the square last week. Chamber member Brian Wallace hand crafted a stand to hold the tree.

Yesterday members of the Wellsville High School Science Club, the Wellsville Volunteer and Village Fire Departments and Chamber members got the tree decorated using newly purchased LED C9 Lights and the attractive memorial bulbs. The colorful bulbs are between the size of a grapefruit and a volley ball. Each bulb is tagged with the name of a person being remembered.

Chiefs Bill Brown & Bill Smith, from the Fire Departments, were on hand with the aerial truck for the high spots. Science Club members helping were Alex Schmidbauer, Kaylee Smith, Katie Buchanan, Ryan Dalrymple, Miles McGinnis, Cherokee Hall, Jo-Hanna Andrews and Elektra Eckelrode. Science Club Advisor Cindy Earich also lent a hand. The decorating party was under the direction of Chamber President Allmon with his right hand man George Crews. Chamber President-elect Diana Spencer was in charge of the hot chocolate. There was even press coverage with reporter Mike McElwain and photographer Patty Schaeffer on hand.

Light-up night is scheduled to begin Saturday, December 4, at 6 PM. Students from both Garfield Elementary & Daw Middle School will be on hand singing Christmas Carols. The Chamber will have a photographer on hand to get free pictures with Santa. Allmon added anyone wanting to include their pets are welcome.

It's been awhile since we last had a community tree for the holiday season. Except for a little bit of gasoline and a couple of man hours it didn't cause the Village an extra cent. The Chamber purchased the new decorations. As Allmon noted it was a "complete team effort right down the line".

See ya Saturday...

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Scrooged Up Opens Friday

The Potter Players Community Theatre will be presenting the Dan Roberts' play Scrooged Up starting at 8 PM, Friday, December 3, at the theater located at 417 15th Street in Wellsville. It's a comedy youth play with a cast full of very talented actors.

It's about a community theater group getting ready to put on the classic Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. You'll get many a chuckle as they set out trying to work around not having enough people to fill all the roles. It's a classic itself and you won't want to miss it.

The play is directed by Mary Beth Morse and produced by special arrangement with Eldridge Publishing. Appearing on stage is Tonya, Kyle & Alex Schneidmiller, Michaeka Winkleman, David Pittman, Karla Allison, Teresa, Kayla & Sean Gilmore, Emma Brousseau, Haley Gorney, Andrea Dische, Ciera & Laura Zeh, Hannah Haustman, Mason & Lacey Hutchman, Tayler Reed and Kendra Arnold.

In addition to Friday there will be repeat performances on Saturday, December 4 at 8 PM and a Sunday matinee at 2 PM. For reservations call 330-532-5540.

Get your holiday season started with a chuckle. Don't miss Scrooged Up...

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Introducing The 2010/2011 WHS Basketball Teams

The WHS Men's Basketball Teams open the 2010/2011 season tomorrow night on the road at backyard rival Beaver Local. Game time is set to begin with the JVs tipping off at 6 PM. The non-league game needs no hype when it comes to taking on the Beavers.

Starting his 7th season at the helm, Varsity Head Coach Dave "Bug" Thompson enters the year with a 117-26 record. Naturally his goal is to go all the way to Columbus and with the talent he's got it's not a stretch of the imagination. He's got some very talented seniors returning to lead the way plus some very good under classmen.

Show here are the Varsity and the JVs. Shown here for the Varsity seated from the left is Josh Carter, Michael Miller, Michael Johnston, Jalen DeSarro, Christian Kapp & Sean Hudson. Coaches in the back are John Stoakes, Thompson, Lonnie Fields & Dave Thompson, Jr.

In the second picture the JVs from the left are Seth Martin, Michael Call, Bryce ?, Max Littleton & Cameron Betz. Fields coaches the JVs along with being a Varsity Assistant.

If you can't make it to the game tomorrow WHS Sports Station will be broadcasting the game live on the internet. Just go to www.wellsvillealumni.com and click on "Sports Menu" on the left side of the web page. The guys do a terrific job bringing us the play-by-play and Sparky Miller has the film ready the next day for viewing. OHSAA rules prohibit live visual broadcasts but you can hear Roger, Bud & Joe call it out in real time.

Good luck Tigers...

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Introducing The WHS Cheerleaders

Pictured here are the WHS cheerleaders for the 2010/2011 winter sports. Sorry we don't have the lady's names. We must have had a memory lapse... Maybe someone can help us out with the names.

The ladies will debut at the men's season opener at Beaver Local tomorrow night.

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WHS Lady Tigers Open With Victory

Tuesday - November 30: The Wellsville High School Lady Tigers opened the 2010/2011 basketball season with a victory over up-river rival East Liverpool. The Lady Potters came into the Tigers Den with one victory already and left with their first loss of the young season.

From the opening tip-off the Lady Tigers took command early in the game leading the Potters in all four quarters. The Lady Tigers used a stifling press forcing a total of 28 turn overs by the East Liverpool team. The final score was Wellsville 70-54. Junior Mikyla Tipton had a team high 20 points, followed by Sophomore Meika Dalrymple with 16. Rilee Livolsi & Irene Kiser each contributed 11 points with Senior Shawntae Dillard adding 6 more. Kiser had two 3-pointers and Dalrymple added another one from outside the arch.

With only one senior on the team the Lady Tigers are young with a lot of talent, both with the starting five and coming off the bench. The Tigers committed 21 turn overs themselves but it is only the first game of the season. We suspect that will be worked on to bring that number down.

The Junior Varsity Lady Tigers dropped the opening match by a score of 42-26. For most of them it was their first game at the high school level. The JV team is made of up of five freshmen and only two sophomores.

The Lady Tigers return to action this coming Saturday when they host Toronto. Tip-off for the JV game is set for 1 PM.

Good game. Congratulations Ladies...

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Introducing the Daw Middle School Lady Tigers

The Daw Middle School girl's basketball teams open the 2010/2011 season tomorrow afternoon on the road. They travel to Leetonia to take on Lady Bears. Game time is set to begin at 5 PM with the 7th Grade team followed by the 8th graders.

Next Monday the Daw Middle School teams travel to Columbiana on Monday. Their home opener is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, at Beacom Memorial against United Local.

Pictured above is the Daw Middle School teams. The 7th grade have the girls in the black & white uniforms. They are coached by Jasmine Richardson. The 8th Grade girls are in the orange uniforms and are coached by Alan Dingey. We haven't gotten a roster of the players yet.

Good luck ladies...

Go Tigers!

ole nib