Sheriff Smith OK with replacement plan

LISBON — Columbiana County Sheriff David Smith is on board with a plan to have a replacement candidate if he is barred from seeking re-election next year.

That’s according to David Johnson, the chairman of the county’s Republican party.

Smith is facing a first-degree misdemeanor charge in Cambridge Municipal Court in Guernsey County of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

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