Couple charged after dispute with tree cutters

LISBON — A couple is facing criminal charges after a scuffle with Columbiana County Sheriff’s deputies while Ohio Edison Co. workers were cutting trees.

Wayne Wilson, 51, of 37093 state Route 30, is charged with disorderly conduct, and his live-in girlfriend, Catherine Woodard, 59, charged with resisting arrest.

Wilson had been trying to stop Ohio Edison from removing about 40 blue spruce trees from his property.

In a lawsuit filed in county Common Pleas Court last year, Wilson said he had planted the trees from 1985 through 1987.

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