Timothy Brian McKee, Columnist

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. PLYMOUTH — Only half of Plymouth is in Richland County — the other half resides in Huron County. The line of demarcation runs down Ohio 603 through the middle of downtown. This photo captures the Richland border, looking down South Plymouth Street. As […]

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The Richland County Republican Party is presently engaged in establishing a Base of Operations on North Park Street with a new party headquarters almost directly across the Square from the Democratic Party headquarters on South Park Street. In this ‘new’ arrangement, the Square […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The building on the south side of the Square we know today as the Coney has been a restaurant for a long time, but it was originally conceived as a furniture store and funeral parlor. The urban brick structure was built by the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. The Phoenix Brewing Co. came to life in 2014 on North Diamond Street in a poetic rebirth of an old building that has, for a generation at least, appeared to be doomed. Empty and crumbling for years, the old Schroer building found new […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in 2013. Prelude We used to all go to St Peter’s on Christmas Eve. None of us were Catholic, but as far as we were concerned, they put on the best show in town. If you wanted to get some depth of feeling there was no place better […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — The steel mill in Mansfield has been known by different names to different generations of families in Richland County. Today, we know it as AK Steel, but within recent lifetimes, it was called Empire Detroit and Cyclops. In 1924, shortly after the […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — Walking across the Mansfield square in the 1840s, one might come across a huddle of young lawyers joking, joshing and conferring. Because the Square was such a rustic cow pen at that time, and the attorneys likely had mud on their shoes, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2014. MANSFIELD — The gazebo is a familiar site on Park Avenue West today, where it stands atop a hill in South Park. But the longest part of its history was spent in a different place not too far away. Originally the little “resting […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was previously published at Richland Source in 2013. The evolution of media access in Richland County is the story of how connectivity has magnified in a broader and wider web, while simultaneously becoming more personal and unique. In 1813, if you wanted other people to know what you had to say, your […]