ASHLAND — The hot-button issue at the Ashland County Fair just got hotter. The Ashland County Democratic Committee, through a Lakewood attorney, filed a civil suit Thursday in U.S. District Court, alleging the group’s federal civil rights were violated in September. The lawsuit, filed by former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, identifies Ashland County Sheriff […]
Dillon Carr
Lead reporter for Ashland Source who happens to own more bikes than pairs of jeans. His coverage focuses on city and county government, and everything in between. He lives in Mansfield with his wife and two children.
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Nova man arrested after allegedly shooting Ashland man outside Wagon Wheel bar
ASHLAND — One man was hospitalized and another was in custody after an early Thursday morning shooting in the parking lot of a downtown Ashland bar. David Struckoff, 25, of Nova, was taken into custody at the Wagon Wheel, 255 Orange Road, after the shooting incident at 1:28 a.m., police said. He was placed in […]
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Ashland County Democratic Party chair says fair ‘ejected’ her for ‘political reasons’
ASHLAND — The chair of the Ashland County Democratic Party broke her silence Friday by stating she was “ejected” from the county fair for “political reasons.” Heather Sample, 47, serves as the chair of the Ashland County Democratic Party, whose booth was booted from the Ashland County fairgrounds Thursday after the fair board’s discovery of what […]
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Ashland County fire official charged with additional sex-related felonies, pleads not guilty
ASHLAND — The chief of the Polk Jackson Perry Fire District pleaded not guilty to two additional felonies on Friday related to a previous charge of pandering child pornography. Brandon Mosher, 36, was arrested Aug. 22 following a months-long investigation into alleged crimes against children. The next day, he was charged with pandering obscenity involving a […]
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Child care providers say paperwork burdens, distracts from central mission
Angela Murphy has worked at First English Lutheran Early Learning Center since 1998. At the time, she was in her 20s. She worked as a preschool teacher. Murphy remembers all her students’ names and keeps tabs on most of them long after they leave. Class photos hang in the center’s main hallway. “Gabrielle. She works […]
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ACSO investigating ‘offensive’ button incident at Ashland County Fair; notifies U.S. Secret Service
ASHLAND — The Ashland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident at the Ashland County Fair that resulted in the booting of a booth holder who distributed “offensive” buttons directed at President Donald Trump. ACSO Sheriff Kurt Schneider said Friday he has contacted the U.S. Secret Service to investigate “any crimes that may be associated […]
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Ashland County Fair board boots Ashland County Democratic Party booth for ‘offensive’ buttons
ASHLAND — Ashland County Fair officials booted the Ashland County Democratic Party booth on Thursday following the political party’s sale of “offensive buttons” directed toward President Donald Trump. The Ashland County Fair posted on Facebook around 8 p.m. on Thursday that it had been “made aware of offensive buttons in the Democrat booth.” “We are […]
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Budweiser Clydesdales awe crowd at Ashland County Fair
ASHLAND — Nadine Whitmore joined a growing crowd at the Ashland County Fair on Sunday to witness something she’s idolized since childhood. “Seeing a Budweiser Clydesdale is on my bucket list,” Whitmore said. The 56-year-old made the hour trek north from Galena on Sunday with her husband and daughter as soon as she learned the full, […]
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Teens from Loudonville, Mapleton crowned royalty at 174th Ashland County Fair
ASHLAND — The Ashland County Fair kicked off Sunday by crowning a junior king and queen. Danika Cross, a senior at Mapleton High School, and Preston Smeltzer, a senior at Loudonville High School, earned the crowns after the opening ceremony for the 174th fair. Cross and Smeltzer succeed Sage Runion and Nick Cartwright, the fair’s […]
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COLUMN: ‘A Hunger to Kill’ jogs memories of covering Ashland serial killer Shawn Grate
Sept. 13, 2016. I was 25 and only about a year into my full-time job as a reporter when the news about Shawn Grate broke out of Ashland. At the time, the story was about a Jane Doe who had been allegedly kidnapped and tortured physically and sexually in an abandoned house. But we all […]