MANSFIELD, Ohio — Linden Road Presbyterian Church is displaying a free nativity exhibit featuring approximately 400 nativity sets from Dec. 11 through 13. The exhibit, in its second year, started as a unique opportunity to involve the whole congregation in something that would be “the church’s gift to the community,” said Doug Beilstein, who’s coordinating […]
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Shop dog Tess schmoozes around town looking for home
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Shopdog Tess, or perhaps we’ll call her newshound, is busy this week at Richland Source, meeting people and looking for a place to call home. Richland Source is fostering Tess through the Humane Society of Richland County’s “Home for the Holidays” program. The program allows people to foster a dog or cat […]
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AU features Festival of Lights on Dec. 13
ASHLAND, Ohio – Ashland University will officially begin its observance of the holiday season with the 25th annual Festival of Lights on Dec. 13 in Ashland University’s Jack and Deb Miller Chapel, located at the intersection of King Road and College Avenue. The 7 p.m. candlelight service, which is free and open to the public, […]
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Nashville superstar group ‘The Willis Clan’ to headline at Richland County Fairgrounds
MANSFIELD, Ohio — (UPDATED) The Willis Clan, one of the hottest names in country music, will perform at the Richland County Fairgrounds Thursday. The show begins at 7 p.m. in Fairhaven Hall. The 12-member band comprised of brothers and sisters hails from Nashville, Tennessee, where they regularly perform at the Grand Opry Hotel. The band […]
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Christmas for the Birds is Saturday at Ohio Bird Sanctuary
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Christmas for the Birds is the holiday program scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13 in the new Education Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. At 2 p.m. there will be a winter hike. Santa will stop by and be available for pictures with the kids from noon to 2 p.m. The program […]
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Mansfield Blockhouse to host A Very Old Fashioned Christmas on Dec. 10
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 […]