MANSFIELD — Don’t tell Matt Finfgeld this November represents an off-year election. It’s a flat busy time to be the director of the Richland County Board of Elections. The local bipartisan elections board on Wednesday certified the ballot for Nov. 4, races that include cities, townships, school boards and a raft of tax and other […]
Carl Hunnell
City editor. 30-year plus journalist. Husband. Father of 3 grown sons and also a proud grandpa. Prior military journalist in U.S. Navy, Ohio Air National Guard. -- Favorite quote: "Where were you when the page was blank?"
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Kinship Care: Grandparents, others face same child care challenges as parents
MANSFIELD — Tammy Knudson has seen childcare issues from every conceivable angle. None of it’s easy. The 51-year-old Knudson became a teenage mom who dropped out of school at age 16. She raised five children, then returned to school and earned a GED and eventually a bachelor’s degree. Now a social worker at Richland County […]
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News Man Weekly: Ohio Bird Sanctuary, Richland County Fair and rejected rezone
MANSFIELD — The News Man Weekly Podcast turns the big 60 this week! In this week’s News Man Weekly, our 60th episode, we recap the top local headlines — from the 175th Richland County Fair wrapping up with a record-breaking junior fair auction to Mansfield City Council rejecting a proposed rezoning on the city’s north side. […]
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Ontario sisters to welcome home uncle’s remains 75 years after his death in Korea
HYDEN, Ky. — Becky Barclay and Patty Shay are going to the airport in Cincinnati this week to help pick up an uncle they never met. That’s when the remains of U.S. Army PFC Rodger Engle Fields will finally come home from Korea — 75 years after his death at the frozen Chosin Reservoir. The […]
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Lucas native killed in Vietnam honored exactly 55 years after his death
LUCAS — U.S. Army PFC Richard “Rick” McFarland’s platoon was moving toward its night defensive position near the village of Vinh Loc. Evening was coming quickly at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 10, 1970, as the Recon Platoon moved quietly, about eight miles northwest of Quang Ngai City in the Republic of Vietnam. The 1967 Lucas […]
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We went for a walk on Mansfield’s Main Street on Tuesday afternoon
MANSFIELD — New sidewalks were being poured near Sixth Street. New underground electric lines were being laid between Fourth and Fifth streets. Storm sewer lines were being replaced near Second Street. That was the scene Tuesday afternoon during a walking tour of Mansfield’s Main Street, from Sixth Street to First Street. The $19 million Main […]
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Fugitive murderer Lester Eubanks left piece of himself behind after rape, killing
MANSFIELD — Lester Eubanks left a piece of himself behind when he raped and murdered 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener six decades ago. And now, the authorities have it. The U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday it has recovered DNA from clothing the Mansfield man and long-time fugitive was wearing when he killed the teenager on Nov. […]
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News Man Weekly: Property taxes, Main Street improvement and a solar work dispute
MANSFIELD — Few things these days generate more angst, frustration and downright anger than property taxes. This week on episode number 59 of the News Man Weekly podcast, we dive headfirst into the topic with with none other than Richland County Auditor Pat Dropsey. The veteran auditor joins the show to break down why so […]
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Mansfield lawmakers to consider rezone of 39.5 acres on city’s north side
MANSFIELD — Mansfield lawmakers are scheduled Tuesday to vote on a proposal to rezone almost 40 acres on the city’s north side to multi-family, changing it from its current mobile home park district status. The undeveloped land is broken into two parcels, south of Walker Lake Road and just north of the Wooded Estates mobile […]
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Two Mansfield residents injured in Ashland County motorcycle/truck wreck
ASHLAND COUNTY — Two Mansfield residents on a motorcycle suffered serious injuries Sunday in a hit-skip accident in a roundabout at the intersection of U.S. 42 and Ohio 302 in Jackson Township. According to the Ashland Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a 2016 Honda GL1800 Gold Wing motorcycle was traveling southwest on U.S. […]