MANSFIELD — If you get a text message, receive a post card or drive past a billboard with an offer from a stranger to buy your home, it’s likely from a real estate wholesaler. Ohio lawmakers recently passed legislation to require wholesalers to offer a disclosure statement to clients about their business model. That bipartisan […]
Katie Ellington Serrao
Staff reporter at Richland Source since 2019. I focus on education, housing and features. Clear Fork alumna. Always looking for a chance to practice my Spanish. Got a tip? Email me at katie@richlandsource.com.
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Chinatown dessert auction raises $19k for The New Store
MANSFIELD — Lloyd “Buttons” Blevins paced back and forth behind the bar, waving a homemade apple pie in the air. Bidders hiked the price higher and higher. They stood, wedged shoulder-to-shoulder between the booths and the barstools, cocktails and wine glasses in hand. In the end, Mark Kroger walked away with a $2,000 apple pie. […]
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Historic & possibly haunted Bissman building hits the auction block
MANSFIELD — A piece of Mansfield history will go on the auction block next month The Bissman Building is for sale via an online auction administered by Remaley Auctioneers. The auction opened Saturday and ends on Dec. 27 at 10 a.m. The building has housed a grocery store and warehouse, served as a filming location for […]
Posted inEducation
Madison recognizes students for perfect state test scores
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Milo McCann skipped across the cafeteria floor and gave his former teacher a bear hug. The seventh grader was reunited with his sixth grade math teacher Wednesday night when he and other students were recognized for earning perfect scores on Ohio Achievement Tests in the spring. The students below were recognized along […]
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Madison school board approves $2 million in cuts, plans May levy effort
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Supt. Rob Peterson said the financial state of Madison Local Schools is keeping him up at night. “I understand people are anxious. I’m anxious,” Peterson said at a school board meeting Wednesday night. “I’m not sleeping very well at night to be honest with you.” The Madison school board voted Wednesday to […]
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Crestline Police find 2 dead bodies during welfare check
CRESTLINE — The Crestline Police Department encountered two dead bodies during a welfare check Wednesday morning. According to a statement from Police Chief Jason Kitzmiller, officers responded to 722 North Henry Street at around 10 a.m. after receiving a call for a welfare check. Details are sketchy as of Wednesday at 5 p.m., but after attempts […]
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Mansfield installs downtown Christmas tree
MANSFIELD — The 2,000 pound silvery Blue Spruce appeared to be weightless as it hovered over Main Street. Shelly Smith & Sons installed the City of Mansfield’s Christmas tree with a crane Wednesday morning, settling the evergreen in the garden bed at the corner of Main and Fourth Street. Employees from the City of Mansfield’s […]
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Open Source: Is Lexington trying to annex land?
We published this story in response to a reader question. Do you have a tip for our reporters? Click here to submit it. LEXINGTON — The drive from Bellville to Ontario may be getting shorter … in 2035. Nearly 60 residents from the Village of Lexington and Troy Township attended a stakeholders’ meeting Tuesday night to […]
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Richland County residents should see SNAP benefits restored this week
MANSFIELD — Richland County residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) should see their full November benefits come through this week — if they haven’t already. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) announced Friday that it was working to complete the distribution of full November SNAP benefits “by mid-next week.” “According […]
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Milliron Foundation, metro housing to distribute Aldi gift cards Wednesday
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield Metropolitan Housing Authority will distribute a limited number of grocery gift cards on Wednesday in an effort to help families in need ahead of the holiday season. The MMHA recently purchased 250 gift cards to Aldi, each worth $40, using funds donated by the Milliron Foundation. “With SNAP benefits coming in late […]