Ask a social worker why they do what they do, and the answer likely will be, “I want to make a difference.” The social workers who serve as health advocates at Equitas Health Mansfield are no different. Each day, they work with people living with HIV, people who need resources, and people who have faced […]
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MIMA announces Holy Week services
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (MIMA) is sponsoring Annual Holy Passion Week Services this year at OASIS of Love Church of God in Christ, 190 Chester Avenue, on April 2. The service will start promptly at 4 p.m. The speaker at this service is Pastor Jameela O’Neil, the new pastor of the Greater […]
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Union Station in Mansfield: a lament
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. For the greatest part of Mansfield’s history, the comings and goings of folks in and out of town were primarily conducted through one very particular portal of the city: the railroad station. Everybody was there at one time or another: greeting someone getting […]
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Mansfield was once the City of Robots
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. We live in an age when artificial intelligence, microchips and animatronics are so advanced and commonplace that the idea of a 20th Century robot — with stiff legs and slow buzzing speech — seems pretty quaint. It’s amazing to imagine that at one […]
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Relax, It’s Just Coffee in 1921, 1979
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Go to this site today at 105 N. Main St., near the 4th Street corner, and you can have an incomparable cup of coffee in a lively environment, full of life and the warm atmosphere of baked things straight out of the oven. […]
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Brinkerhoff Avenue at Park Avenue West is shown here in 1909
When this columnated portal to South Park was built in the late 1800s, this end of Park Avenue was clear out at the westernmost reaches of Mansfield — practically in the country. This is where the streetcar line ended so the trollies had to flip around and face back up the hill for the return […]
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This is what Roseland School looked like in 1933
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. The old Roseland School stood at the intersection of Springmill Street and Trimble Road until the mid-1930s when the district was consolidated with the Mansfield City Schools. Students moved to a city school for about a decade until the new Roseland School opened […]
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WPA post office mural captures the spirit of Crestline
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. There is a certain haunting quality in the cry of a passing train. That element — evoking the past through an echo that is alive and vital in the present — is very much the spirit of Crestline. The word ‘spirit’ comes from […]
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Here’s how Mansfield launched Jim Tully into literary history
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. Tough talk and shady characters from the underclass of real life — bums, prostitutes, circus roadies, boxing-ring losers — are a tradition in American literature made popular by famous authors like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Raw, gritty and brutally honest: that’s what this […]
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Mansfield first experienced the Salvation Army in 1887
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. There have been a number of armies passing in and out of Mansfield throughout its history. But the one that has lasted the longest, and had the most life-giving impact in our community, is the Salvation Army. Their first foray into town took […]