SHELBY — Josh Boggs is determined to turn his family’s fatal highway tragedy into a positive for the community. It appears the Shelby man will be successful. Richland County engineer Adam Gove said Friday morning his office and the Ohio Department of Transportation are working on a combined effort to install rumble strips on Ganges-Five […]
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Mansfield City Council OKs $17.3 million water meter replacement program
MANSFIELD — A change in the financing plan will save Mansfield about $237,609 in a $17.3 million city-wide water meter replacement program approved by City Council on Tuesday evening. The actual project will cost $13,300,000 and the city will pay $2,469,474 in interest over the lifetime of the 10-year bonds that council approved. The city […]
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Mansfield City Council to discuss $13.3 million in bonds for water meter replacement
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council is expected Tuesday evening to discuss a plan to issue $13.3 million in 10-year bonds for a city-wide water meter replacement program. The bond proposal is scheduled for the council’s 7 p.m. caucus that will precede the council legislative meeting. No vote on the bonds is expected Tuesday. Three committee […]
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Proposed change to Ohio drug laws generating statewide debate
COLUMBUS — Senate Bill 3 sounds like a simple, easy idea. Reduce low-level drug possession charges, now felonies, to misdemeanors. At the same time, stiffen the penalties for those dealing in drugs. However, as Ohio state lawmakers are finding, when it comes to drug laws, nothing is as simple as it seems. Senate Bill 3, […]
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Mansfield City Council to make final CDBG, HOME fund decisions May 21
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council will make final decisions May 21 on how to spend more than $1 million in combined 2019 Community Development Block Grant funds and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Council’s Public Affairs Committee discussed the allocations of $894,831 in CDBG money and $252,424 in HOME funds during a special meeting on […]
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Shelby man grieves loss of daughters, vows to make intersection safer
SHELBY — Josh Boggs lost two daughters and an unborn baby. His wife remains in a medically-induced coma after undergoing brain surgery. His son remains in the hospital with a badly bruised spinal column. Even as he deals with unending grief and pain from a horrific May 5 crash at the intersection of Ohio 96 […]
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Mansfield firefighters rescue cat from West First Street duplex fire
MANSFIELD — No one was injured, but Mansfield firefighters rescued a cat from a duplex fire Wednesday afternoon at 81-83 W. First St., directly across from St. Peter’s High School. The fire, which was reported at 2:08 p.m., briefly snarled school bus and auto traffic at the end of the school day. Asst. Chief Mark […]
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Light voter turnout seen across Mansfield today as primary election begins
MANSFIELD — Poll workers outnumbered voters at precincts by wide margins on Tuesday morning as light participation kicked off the 2019 primary election day. Voting was indeed light at all four four voting sites Richland Source visited this morning — Maddox Memorial COGIC on Walker Lake Road; Mid-Ohio Conference Center on West Fourth Street; St. […]