MANSFIELD, Ohio — A Very Old Fashioned Christmas at the Mansfield Blockhouse will take place on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event will feature hot cider, plum pudding and cookies served by costumed re-enactors, and period music performed by Keith Metcalf. Christmas at the Blockhouse, in Mansfield’s South Park, is sponsored […]
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Meet Galion resident, Bill Sells: The Squirrel Man
GALION, Ohio — Bill Sells and his wife, Paula, never thought squirrels would be a part of their lives. Until Lucky appeared. Around eight years ago, former ER nurse Sells and his wife, Paula, fell in love with a tree-dwelling, acorn-hiding critter. They named her Lucky and she’s “legally blind.” “From the time she (Lucky) […]
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Herlihy home opening for Christmas tours
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Terri Herlihy starts putting up Christmas decorations at her West Second Street home in early October. “We don’t decorate for Halloween; we go right to Christmas,” she said with a laugh. Located behind Herlihy-Chambers Funeral Home, where Herlihy works as a fourth generation licensed funeral director, the house is a popular Mansfield […]
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Mansfield home from early 1900s now a health facility
MANSFIELD, Ohio — What started as a residential property once owned by one of Mansfield’s prominent financial figures, Fred Thomas Bristor, has since become a health facility, now known as Third Street Family Health Services. One might not suspect any historical significance if facing the north or east sides of the property (where the building […]
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Landoll’s Mohican Castle featured on ‘Hotel Hell’
LOUDONVILLE, Ohio – Gordon Ramsay is coming to Loudonville. The celebrity chef and TV host is bringing his hit show “Hotel Hell” to Landoll’s Mohican Castle, an old-world inspired castle/hotel less than five miles from Mohican State Park. The show will be filming at Landoll’s Dec. 4 through 8. “Hotel Hell” follows Ramsay as he […]
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Where will Tess call home?
MANSFIELD, Ohio – Richland Source is taking the term “newshound” quite literally these days. Through the Humane Society of Richland County’s “Home for the Holidays” program, Richland Source is fostering Tess the beagle for the next month in our newsroom. The program allows families (even work families) to temporarily adopt a pet and give the […]
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Richland Academy performs “The Nutcracker”
SHELBY, Ohio — Colorful sets and costumes matched with the artistry of ballet greeted a full audience at Shelby High School Friday night as Richland Academy performed “The Nutcracker.” As the classic story tells, it was Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house and godfather Drosselmeyer arrives with gifts. You Clara receives a nutcracker and later […]