MANSFIELD — The city-owned parking lot across from the Richland Carrousel Park will be repaved. City council approved legislation authorizing the safety-service director to advertise for bids and enter into a contract for resurfacing the downtown parking lot located along East Fourth Street, between Main and Diamond streets, at its meeting Tuesday. The lot consists […]
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Richland County mosquito spray schedule issued for June 26-30
MANSFIELD – Richland Public Health will be conducting mosquito spraying, weather permitting, in the following locations during the week of June 26 – June 30: June 28 – South of Baseline Rd., North of Parcel Rd., East of Brooks Ct., West of Plymouth St., Plymouth Village. June 28 – South of OH-96, near Holtz Rd. […]
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Bike Trail Atlas Mile 15.1: Marion Avenue Road
synopsisCrossing Marion Avenue on the Richland B&O Trail you are intersecting with a very specific and fairly embarrassing moment in history involving a US President: Warren G. Harding. Harding the President President Harding does not often get much of a break from the critics of history who, for most of a century since his death, […]
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Wagner’s Collection of art
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Unique ‘insider, outsider’ art gallery opens Saturday
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield Art Center has a collection which hopes to question the gray area between insider and outsider art. The center will display 170 pieces of art loaned by Thomas Arlen Wagner, who has collected roughly 700 works of art over his 35 years of collecting. The collection will be on display starting […]
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Coldwell Banker Ward Real Estate shares community July 4 flags in Ashland County
ASHLAND — Coldwell Banker Ward Real Estate has shared the July 4th community flags in Ashland County for over 30 years. This year, nearly 5,000 flags can be enjoyed on 15 streets in Ashland and throughout the County including villages of Bailey Lakes, Hayesville, Jeromesville, Loudonville, Mifflin, Nankin, Polk, and Savannah. The entire Ward Real […]
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Ashland University graduates 3 at MANCI ceremony
ASHLAND – The first three graduates of Ashland University’s “Second Chance Pell Program” received their associate’s degrees on Monday, June 19, at a Commencement ceremony held at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. “These three are the first from the Ashland University Pell program to graduate since its inception in the summer of 2016, and to our […]
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Lary E. Koch
Lary E. Koch, 72, of Loudonville passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Lary was born Oct. 14, 1944 in Mansfield and was the son of the late William A. and Wava L. Snyder Koch. He lived in Loudonville all his life and was a 1962 graduate […]
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Local teens ‘reach Mansfield’ with service projects
MANSFIELD — Local youth forwent typical summer activities to participate in a five-day mission trip dubbed “Reach Mansfield.” Instead of sleeping in and enjoying a day at the pool, 45 teenagers involved in Berean Baptist Church’s youth ministry rolled up their sleeves and dove into various service projects. Phil Leineweber, pastor of student ministries at […]
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179th Airlift Wing budget & accounting office earns national award
MANSFIELD – The Budget and Accounting Office at the 179th Airlift Wing earned the Financial Analysis Office of the Year Award from the Air National Guard for its excellence in executing and managing the wing’s budget during fiscal year 2016. Captain Walter Borowicz, the Budget Officer for the 179th AW, Tech. Sgt. James Hempfield, the […]