MANSFIELD — The 90th season of the Renaissance Theatre is a hard-earned anniversary. Officially announcing their 2017-2018 season earlier this month, the historic theatre took the time to honor how far it has come before looking ahead. “In 1928, when we were built, we were the seventh theatre in Mansfield,” said Rand Smith, president of […]
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DAR Jared Mansfield Chapter names new officers for 2017-2019
SHELBY — For the last meeting until fall, the Jared Mansfield Chapter held a luncheon at the First United Methodist Church in Shelby. Regent Gail Adams welcomed members and guest. Margie Warner, Chapter Scholarship chair introduced two of the three scholarship winners and their parents. Each student receiving a $300 chapter scholarship and a chapter […]
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Russell: Cerealism arrives in Mansfield this week
Michael Albert is an artist from White Plains, New York who specializes in pop art collages that often feature cut-ups of brightly-colored cereal boxes. It’s a technique he calls “cerealism.” Many of these works can be seen in his fascinating book “An Artist’s America.” This week Albert brings his hands-on traveling workshop to the Mansfield/Richland […]
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Mansfield Playhouse offers ‘I Am Talented’ competition
MANSFIELD – The Mansfield Playhouse is kicking off its 50th anniversary season with its first “I Am Talented” competition, open to all area residents. Singers, dancers and performers of all variety are invited to audition for the show, including individuals, musical groups and bands. Auditions will be June 27 and 28 at 6 p.m. at […]
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Bike Trail Atlas Mile 15.1: Marion Avenue Road
synopsis Crossing Marion Avenue on the Richland B&O Trail you are intersecting with a very specific and fairly embarrassing moment in history involving a US President: Warren G. Harding. Harding the President President Harding does not often get much of a break from the critics of history who, for most of a century since his […]
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Unique ‘insider, outsider’ art gallery opens Saturday
MANSFIELD — The Mansfield Art Center has a collection which hopes to question the gray area between insider and outsider art. The center will display 170 pieces of art loaned by Thomas Arlen Wagner, who has collected roughly 700 works of art over his 35 years of collecting. The collection will be on display starting […]
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New Zealand man chases Shawshank sites
MANSFIELD — Hayden Schade of Auckland, New Zealand has a magnet on his refrigerator that reads, “Do more of what makes you happy.” This phrase relates closely to the quote “Get busy living or get busy dying,” from one of his favorite films, “The Shawshank Redemption.” For Schade, “living” is visiting and recreating scenes from […]
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St. Peter’s grad Carter shines in Miss Ohio debut
MANSFIELD — Madeline Carter was told she would be Miss Ohio one day. She’s working on it. The 2015 St. Peter’s graduate was a top-10 finalist at last weekend’s event. “This is something that I’ve wanted to do for a very long time,” Carter said. “It was a childhood dream that I realized just a […]