courtney@richlandsource.com

ASHLAND – Brookside Golf Course golf pro manager Terry Valentine is no longer employed by the City of Ashland.  Valentine is officially retiring, but a Feb. 28 personnel action form from the city states his position was eliminated for economic reasons. Mayor Matt Miller confirmed Wednesday the choice to cut the position was a consensus reached […]

ASHLAND – With $1,002,313 raised for its 2018 Faces of Change campaign, United Way of Ashland County exceeded its campaign goal by $27,313. The announcement was made at the United Way chapter’s annual meeting Tuesday as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate a successful year.  Executive director Stacey Schiemann and volunteer campaign chairs Aaron and […]

ASHLAND – The proposed new fieldhouse at Ashland High School and district-wide school security were the key topics of discussion at Ashland City Schools’ board of education meeting Monday.  The district hired VSWC Architects to create a design for the fieldhouse building, and district leaders and community members have raised over $1.3 million in private […]

ASHLAND – Ashland County Common Pleas judge Ron Forsthoefel said the Shawn Grate case is “ramping up for trial” — which is slated for April 9. In what was expected to be the final pretrial in the case against the suspected serial killer, the defense and prosecution met with the judge via Skype video-conference Monday. […]

ASHLAND – There seems to be a disconnect between the people whose lives are impacted by addiction and those responding to the opioid epidemic. People come to the issue from their own perspectives, often unable to see or fully understand the perspective of people with different relationships to the issue. That lack of understanding can […]

ASHLAND – It’s about time. We’ve been waiting for this.  That was the prevailing attitude among the young adults who gathered at Mitchell’s Orchard & Farm Market Thursday for the inaugural event of Ashland Young Professionals. Several people remarked they had never seen so many young people in one place in Ashland. The official headcount, […]

ASHLAND – In her weekly visit to the Ashland University radio station, 88.9 WRDL, Ashland Source’s Courtney McNaull discussed the city’s decision to continue funding Brookside Golf Course.  Other topics in her segment included a theater program for prison inmates, the new Ashland Young Professionals group and Richland Source’s newest podcast. 

ASHLAND – Ashland High School choir teacher and vocal director Kim Wolbert can picture her student, Mikayla Myers, performing on Broadway someday. Myers’ role, as Wolbert imagines it, would be Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera.” The Ashland High School senior has dazzled audiences as Mother Abbess in “The Sound of Music,” Fiona in […]

ASHLAND — Ashland City Council passed a 2018 budget that includes funding to keep Brookside Golf Course operating through the end of the year — after a heated debate. The budget features more than $60 million in appropriations. Council passed it unanimously at the mayor’s recommendation, including approximately $141,000 transfer from the general fund to […]