MANSFIELD — Tony Vero offered a positive “by-the-numbers” look at Richland County finances on Monday. Speaking during the Richland County Republican Party’s monthly luncheon, Vero used 30 “number” slides to point how the county’s financial picture has improved under he and fellow commissioners Darrell Banks and Marilyn John. Vero, a first-term commissioner, is opposed in […]
Carl Hunnell, City Editor
Posted inNews
Mansfield City Council to return attention to 2020 final budget
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council is expected on Tuesday to discuss the final appropriations budget for 2020, including a $30.9 million general fund. Third Ward Councilman Jon Van Harlingen, chair of council’s finance committee, has scheduled budget meetings on Monday at 6:30 p.m. and again Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. There will also be a streets […]
Posted inBusiness, Property Transfers
More than 140 Richland County properties recently sold
More than 140 Richland County properties have recently changed hands, according to the latest property transfer reports from the county auditor’s office. Properties recently sold included: CITY OF MANSFIELD 276 E. 1st St., Mansfield; Wells Fargo Bank to Tracy Bond; $11,120 487 Beechwood Drive, Mansfield; Bret Woodard to Christopher Davis; $94,900 87 S. Home Road, […]
Posted inBoys Basketball, Sports
Shelby races past Clear Fork in D-II sectional title game, 87-67
WILLARD — Nathan Loney doesn’t mind setting the bar high in his first season as the Shelby basketball coach. His team, which went unbeaten in the Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference this season, claimed a Division II sectional title Friday night with an 87-67 win against Clear Fork. Watching his team cut down the nets afterward, Loney […]
Posted inSports
Lexington graduate takes aim at college wrestling national title
WESTERVILLE — Brent Rastetter has literally watched Drew Kasper grow into perhaps the best Division III college heavyweight wrestler in the country. All that’s left now is to earn the title on the mat. The former Lexington High School coach, in his fourth year at Otterbein University, first mentored Kasper, a Lexington High School graduate, […]
Posted inSolutions
How do other cities like Mansfield handle trash and illegal dumping?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part III of a four-part series looking at trash issues in the city of Mansfield. The series began Monday by looking back more than 20 years, when the city got out of the municipal trash-hauling business. Part II examined current trash issues facing the city. Paul Barnett is an engineer by education, […]
Posted inWeather
Snow expected to spread across area Wednesday
Last weekend’s blue skies and warm temps will seem like a nice memory if weather forecasters are correct about Wednesday. The National Weather Service office in Cleveland believes a developing storm system over the Ohio Valley will bring snow and wind to the area Wednesday into Wednesday night. Rain will change to snow during the […]
Posted inSolutions
Mansfield’s ‘wild west’ of trash issues began more than two decades ago
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part I of a four-part series looking at trash issues in the city of Mansfield. Today looks back more than 20 years to when the city got out of the municipal trash-hauling business. MANSFIELD — A Mansfield resident spoke up quickly when asked what candidates should talk about to earn her […]
Posted inSolutions
Solutions Journalism grant to help Richland Source try to ‘Boost the Vote’
How can we improve voter participation in Mansfield and Richland County? That’s the question we have asked ourselves in recent months at Richland Source. In last November’s general election, which included a Mayoral race in Mansfield, voter turnout in the county was just 25 percent. In the 2019 primary, it was 11 percent. Looking back […]