ONTARIO — Jeff Martin, senior vice president of development for Industrial Commercial Properties, has the energy and enthusiasm to ensure the property at the former Ontario GM site attracts new industrial business to the area. However, he has to make sure the building has energy too. Electricity access was one of the main hurdles Martin […]
Grace McCormick, Reporter
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Mansfield City Council approves airport leases, discusses public works updates
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council agreed on Tuesday to enter into two 10-year leases, beginning next year, with airport tenants. The Gorman-Rupp Company will occupy 2.1 acres at the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport, beginning January 2023, for $9,990 per year. The Mansfield company plans to build a new hangar sometime next year that the company can […]
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Mansfield City Council discusses possible water-rate increase for 2023
MANSFIELD — Mansfield city engineer Bob Bianchi said he fears a hypothetical day 10 years in the future when the city can’t deliver safe water to homes and businesses. If that were to happen, he said the city wouldn’t be able to afford water line replacements at its current water-rate structure. Bianchi told Mansfield’s public […]
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Young Entrepreneurs Academy offering business class for middle, high school students
MANSFIELD — Angie Fanello, marketing and communications coordinator of the Richland Area Chamber & Economic Development, had no idea what her teenage daughters were going to say at a 2019 business idea pitch. She worried they might be underprepared after watching other Young Entrepreneurs Academy students present to professionals and receive funding for start-up ideas. […]
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Madison Twp. to increase part-time base firefighter pay in January 2023
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Madison Township trustees approved the hiring of six part-time firefighters Monday night. They also approved Fire Chief Ken Justus’ request to raise base pay for new hires to $11 an hour beginning in January 2023. Currently, Justus said, new hires are paid $10 an hour before they complete basic training and $11 […]
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Ontario Planning Commission offers feedback on Walker Lake Road hotel plan
ONTARIO — Plans are underway to add a new hotel, office space and residential development to Ontario’s shopping district off U.S. 30. Moment Development, a Columbus-based real estate development firm, presented its preliminary development plan for a four-story hotel and other projects Wednesday night at the Ontario Planning Commission meeting. Moment Development bought six parcels […]
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Open Source: AK Hair Collective staff to host grand opening Oct. 15 in downtown Mansfield
MANSFIELD — Working in Los Angeles as a hair stylist during the COVID-19 pandemic forced Andrew Kleiman to reconsider how he paid bills. While his main source of income still comes from his clients in California, he is opening AK Hair Collective in downtown Mansfield to earn passive income and advance development by Mansfield Central […]
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‘Field of Monsters’ speakers share hopes for Friday’s free symposium
MANSFIELD — Bryan Gladden has observed Mansfield residents searching for the city’s identity for five or 10 years. “We’ve been such a blue-collar town for so long, but I think we are trying to identify who we are now,” he said. Gladden said the city’s situation at a crossroads gives it the opportunity to explore […]
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Owens, Pscholka-Gartner share goals ahead of domestic relations judge election
MANSFIELD — Richland County Domestic Relations Judge Heather Cockley announced a year ago she would not seek re-election in 2022. Domestic Relations Chief Magistrate Kirsten Pscholka-Gartner and local attorney Beth Owens will be on the Nov. 8 ballot to replace Cockley. Both were unopposed in the May primary with Pscholka-Gartner receiving 3,258 votes among Democrats […]