ONTARIO — For Kyle Walters and his Ontario teammates, approach was everything. Walters had three hits and drove in three runs and the Warriors rallied for an 11-5 win over Clear Fork in Mid-Ohio Athletic Conference action on a blustery Tuesday afternoon at Ontario High School. “The last couple games I didn’t do too good […]
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Student entrepreneurs show creativity and confidence at business plan pitch
MANSFIELD ─ Five new business ideas created by Richland County students received financial boosts on Tuesday evening. The five “business owners” had participated in the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) since November and pitched their business plans at the program’s annual YEA! Investor Panel Event. The judges allocated $4,000 in total to the businesses from the […]
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Mansfield City Council meets in person for first time in 13 months
MANSFIELD — David Falquette asked Mansfield City Council members to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance before their meeting Tuesday evening. How is that news? Well, the oath before the meeting marked the first time council members have met in chambers since March 18, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reached Ohio. It’s so long ago […]
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GALLERY: Ontario vs. Clear Fork Baseball
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Mansfield business owners ask council for update on $15 million flood mitigation project
MANSFIELD — A watery pre-pandemic issue resurfaced Tuesday night when Mansfield City Council met in person for the first time in more than a year. Joe and Reba Matern, owners of Matern Metal Works, Inc., came to the meeting to ask when the city plans to move forward with the Touby Run Flood Mitigation Hazard […]
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DeWine, Yost comment on Chauvin verdict
COLUMBUS — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and attorney general David Yost each issued statements in the wake of Tuesday’s guilty verdict in the trial Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was convicted on all three counts in the death of George Floyd. “A jury in Minneapolis has spoken by convicting Derek Chauvin of second and […]
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Pioneer instructor shares integration of art culture with floral designs
SHELBY — Sandy Grau, Horticulture Instructor at Pioneer Career Technical Center, gave an informative presentation to the Board of Education meeting recently. Grau contacted the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2019 to provide a field trip for her students. The students toured the museum and Grau was offered a fellowship that summer through 2020. Recently, […]
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Portman: Why the ban on fentanyl analogues must be made permanent
Senator Rob Portman explains below his call on Congress to take swift action to permanently schedule illicitly manufactured and deadly fentanyl analogues amid a surging epidemic of drug overdoses. Since 2018, this dangerous class of drugs has been labelled as Schedule I substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to allow federal law enforcement authorities […]
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Shelby secures financing to move forward with athletic complex project
SHELBY — Funding has been secured for the construction of a new athletic complex on the Shelby City School District campus. At Monday night’s meeting, the Shelby Board of Education approved the completion of $4 million in Certificates of Participation, which will function as a lease-purchase agreement with the district renting the improvements from a […]
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Shelby City Council weighs gameplan for $1.77 million in ARP funds
SHELBY — It’s a “hurry-up-and-wait” process for Shelby to receive funding from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan. Shelby will receive nearly $1.8 million from the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a $1.9 trillion spending package from the federal government aimed at COVID-19 relief. On Monday, council unanimously approved a resolution to establish the “Local Fiscal […]