MADISON TOWNSHIP — Eric Litwin, a children’s author, is coming to Eastview Elementary Schools in Madison Township on Monday, April 11. Litwin will offer a pair of performances that day, the first beginning at 1 p.m. Anyone interested in more information should contact the school.
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Kids can benefit from yoga, too
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in Heart of Ohio Magazine. The practice of yoga has been around for hundreds of years, and recently has been growing in popularity because of all of the wonderful benefits. Not only can adults practice yoga, but it is great for children as well. Yoga teaches children to breathe […]
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Ashland U. teams with Ashland High School to sponsor College Night
ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University and Ashland High School have teamed to sponsor the Ashland Regional High School College Night. The event, intended for all high school sophomores, juniors and seniors thinking about attending college (and their parents), is set for Monday, March 14, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Ashland University’s John C. Myers […]
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Students come alive to recreate history
MANSFIELD — The likenesses of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Ben Franklin, and Sacagawea came to Eastview Elementary School to help teach students about United States history on Friday. Christine Vermillion, the school’s fourth grade reading teacher created a project hoping to increase her students’ learning by increasing their imagination. For the assignment, her students were […]
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Mansfield Art Center to host teachers workshop March 17
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield site of the Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program will offer an arts integration professional development workshop for teachers on March 17. Jamin Carter, of Focus 5 Arts Integration Consulting (Virginia) will lead “Reading Portraits as Biographies: Observe. Infer. Inquire.” This professional development workshop, at the Mansfield Art Center, is geared towards educators and […]
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Ashland University professor publishes poetry collection
ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University Professor of English Dr. Deborah Fleming has published her second full-length poetry collection, titled “Into a New Country.” The collection was released this month by Cherry Grove Press of Cincinnati. The poems of “Into a New Country” follow the anonymous speaker through love and loss from youth to maturity; juxtapose […]
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Teachers get raises in Mansfield Schools pact
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Schools union negotiators, teachers, support staff, board members and other administrators can take a deep breath of relief; negotiations have concluded. A deal in protracted negotiations was finally struck on Wednesday night, with a pay raise for teachers — the first in eight years. Teachers operated under an expired contract for […]
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Richland Newhope salutes coloring contest winners
MANSFIELD – Eleven Richland County students have been selected as winners of the 23rd annual Richland County Third Grade Coloring Contest. The event is sponsored by Richland Newhope as part of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in March. This year’s statewide theme is “What’s Your Story?” Richland County schools with third grade classes were invited to […]
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Richland Newhope celebrates Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
MANSFIELD — Richland Newhope is celebrating Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in March and asks everyone to focus on peoples’ abilities and similarities rather than their differences. Statewide, and across the nation, organizations devoted to serving individuals with developmental disabilities are holding special events in March to raise public awareness of the many abilities people have, […]
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Mid-Ohio Karate 4 Kids dominates at state
FREDERICKTOWN, Ohio — Jacques Tarr thinks his students at Mid-Ohio Karate 4 Kids are some of the best he’s instructed in 15 years. “The last team that I felt was one of my best teams, several of the kids went to Budapest, Hungary, and Great Britain to compete on a U.S.A. team,” he said. At […]