EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — There was a time, and it wasn’t all that long ago, when you could walk down Park Avenue West on a sunny afternoon and hardly set foot in the sun — it was such a cool, shady canyon of a cityscape. […]
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Posted inArea History
Review a view over downtown Mansfield through history
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. It is important to have the opportunity to see your town all at once — to experience the wholeness of it. Our lives are spent on the ground, on a street, in a neighborhood; and the views we know are always, therefore, necessarily […]
Posted inOpinion
Local news coverage is a full-time responsibility that takes trained journalists
I’m Larry Phillips, managing editor at Richland Source, Ashland Source and Knox Pages. I edit content arriving from all over Ohio and focused especially on our region. My duties include assigning stories, scheduling reporters, managing the staff and distributing that news across all three sites in Source Media Properties. For 25 years I worked at […]
Posted inOpen Source
Here are our staff’s favorite holiday songs — What are yours?
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’d like to share your favorite holiday song, we’d like to hear it. Send us a link to your favorite tune, along with your name, what town you’re from, and why this song means something to you. Email it us at Larry@RichlandSource.com MANSFIELD — It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, […]
Posted inFootball
UPDATE: Clarksville Clinton-Massie slips past Youngstown Ursuline
UPDATE: This story was updated at 5:35 p.m. CANTON — Clarksville Clinton-Massie used an incredible second-half rally to stun perennial powerhouse Youngstown Ursuline 29-28 and claim the Division IV state football championship on Friday at Canton’s Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. Kody Zantene’s 1-yard TD blast with 43 seconds to play pulled the Falcons […]
Posted inEducation
Sending out the call to all Richland County high school choir directors for a holiday song
MANSFIELD — Over the past few holiday seasons we started shooting videos of one holiday song from each of the Richland County High School choirs that would agree to let us do so. It received a pretty solid response from our readers, and gave us a chance to spotlight students we don’t reach via photo […]
Posted inOpen Source
What holiday tradition is special to you?
OPEN SOURCE: What are your favorite holiday traditions and why. If you’d like to share them, we’d like to hear them. Email directly to Larry Phillips at Larry@RichlandSource.com. Just give us your name and what town you’re from if you’d like to be included. Later in December, we’ll share with our readers what you shared […]
Posted inSports
The unfathomable: Michigan hammers Buckeyes
Stunning, shocking, indescribable, all of those words played out on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Wolverines and coach Jim Harbaugh finally administered that day of reckoning that was surely due, but few believed would happen this year. Michigan 42, Ohio State 27. And to be honest, it should have, and very easily could have […]
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Eagles rally in 2nd half to dump Upper Arlington in Final 4 tilt at Arlin Field
MANSFIELD — Lakewood St. Edward is headed to the Division I state championship game next Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton. The Eagles reached the title tilt by rallying in the second half to upend previously undefeated Upper Arlington 16-10 on Friday night before at frigid Arlin Field […]
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The Game: Win prizes by joining us on Facebook live Saturday during OSU-Michigan
MANSFIELD — Ever wonder what a group of sportswriters sounds like during an Ohio State-Michigan game? We’re going to bring you as close to that experience as possible Saturday at Idea Works with a Facebook livestream during The Game from our West Fourth Street office in downtown Mansfield. Actually, this will be better, because it’s […]