Leavittsburg group celebrates 30th year
LEAVITTSBURG — In 1996, a group of Leavittsburg residents were concerned with the littering and debris at the intersection of West Market Street and South Leavitt Road and decided to do something about it. The residents gathered and formed a group they called the Downtown Leavittsburg Improvement Association, which today is known as the Leavittsburg Heritage Association. Shirley Combs said at the 1996 meeting she was elected president of the group, a title she continues to hold 30 years later. The group’s members gathered this week at the Leavittsburg Heritage Museum run on West ...