ASHLAND — Kim Wolbert will add another feather to her conducting cap as she leads students from eight counties in the middle school honor choir’s annual performance Saturday. “Music programs, I think, are one of the best ways to help our kiddos become more humane and more loving and more compassionate and more responsible and […]
Mariah Thomas
Ashland Source's Report for America corps member. She covers education and workforce development, among other things, for Ashland Source. Thomas comes to Ashland Source from Montana, where she graduated with degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Montana.
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Origins of Stellate Ganglion Block for veterans
ASHLAND — Sean Mulvaney, a doctor from Annapolis, Maryland, has been a pioneer in Stellate Ganglion Block treatment for post traumatic stress disorder. Mulvaney is a former Navy Seal who studied at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He served as an Army physician for 22 years. Today he has his own practice. His […]
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Transformational treatment: Silent Watch connects with Stellate Ganglion Block
Tim Chandler started Silent Watch with a goal of bringing awareness to veteran suicide. Throughout the years, the organization’s reach has expanded. This year, it hosted at least five Silent Watch events throughout the month of September, including ones in Ashland and Mansfield. As Chandler worked to bring awareness to these issues, he went through […]
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GALLERY: Loudonville Halloween celebration
LOUDONVILLE — Loudonville rung in the Halloween weekend with its annual parade on Saturday afternoon. The parade was followed up with a trick-or-treat event downtown and residential trick-or-treating.
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Friends, teachers remember Breanne McKean
NANKIN — Raichel Herte and Lauren Elson are teachers at Mapleton Local Schools, and have advised the student council for a little over a year. Breanne McKean, one of their students, served as a student council representative. Elson had her in class starting in sixth grade, and Herte first had McKean during her freshman year. […]
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State Issue 1: Local groups dispute amendment on reproductive decisions, including abortion
MOUNT VERNON — Diana Wetzel has worked with Starting Point, a non-profit pregnancy resource center in Mount Vernon, for almost 10 years. Now Starting Point’s executive director, her work providing resources and education to community members is deeply personal. She received an abortion herself years ago. “As a woman who’s had an abortion, I suffered […]
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Loudonville schools fires custodian for over-recording hours on time card
LOUDONVILLE — The Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village Schools board of education unanimously approved a resolution to terminate a school custodian. According to the resolution’s text, the custodian, Donnell Bird, recorded over 36 hours of work on their time card that wasn’t completed. Those hours took place between Sept. 8 to Sept. 25. The hours were discovered […]
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AU challenges $6 million fine from U.S. Dept. of Ed.
ASHLAND — Ashland University is contesting a $6 million fine levied by the U.S. Department of Education for “improper Pell packaging and return of Title IV funds,” according to court documents. The fine, according to a July 10 decision from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Hearings and Appeals, has to do with the […]
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Loudonville Street Fair queen upholds family tradition
LOUDONVILLE — Grace Ringler isn’t the first one in her family to be crowned queen of the annual Loudonville Street Fair. Her mom, Molly Ringler, wore the crown in 1995. In the Ringler family, the crown has now become a generational affair. “I didn’t think I was going to get it,” Grace said. Her mom, […]
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Vermin Supreme appears at local music venue
MANSFIELD — The perennial presidential candidate Vermin Supreme appeared at Mansfield’s The Mothership on Saturday night. He spoke between a lineup of artists at the local music venue. The Magnavox’s, Scott Yoder and Yellow Fever played Saturday night. Supreme’s stop in Mansfield came as part of his presidential ambitions tour for the 2024 election, he […]