Since March, I’ve often thought that I’ll reflect on the day that the governor shut down the schools due to the global pandemic much in the same way I remember the moment I was told that the planes hit the Twin Towers. That moment will be emblazoned into my mind: where I was, who I […]
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Mental Health & Recovery Board launches stress relief resource app for Ashland County
ASHLAND — The Mental Health & Recovery Board of Ashland County has launched an app designed to help Ashland County residents connect with local resources and manage stress. Released earlier this month, the Healthy Ashland app was created as an interactive phone app offering a variety of mental health, crisis and addiction resources, but also […]
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Task force hopes to improve health outcomes
Editor’s Note: This is a monthly educational series about racism. Contributors include Donna Hight, Beth Castle, Margaret Lin, Deanna West-Torrence, Renda Cline, Tiffany Mitchell, Crystal Davis Weese, Brigitte Coles and Amy Hiner. Imagine finding out that you’re expecting a beautiful baby. You’ve been looking forward to this moment for years. At your first prenatal appointment, the […]
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Transgender women strive to create more accepting environment in Mansfield
MANSFIELD — While the lesbian, gay and bisexual communities have come a long way toward gaining rights and being accepted in the world today, the transgender community unfortunately can not say the same. In fact, some say they’re about 25 years behind their sister communities. The subject of gender identity and gender reassignment continues to […]
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Bellville man undergoes first minimally-invasive heart valve procedure ever performed at Mansfield Hospital
MANSFIELD — On June 10, OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital officially introduced the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure to Richland County. Waldo Hall, a Bellville resident, was the first patient to receive the procedure. “I was out and home the next day and totally felt better in a week,” Hall said. Since his early 40’s, Hall, […]
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Small changes to relieve big stress
It seems like every conversation I’ve had for months has eventually devolved into how much we’re all struggling with the unforeseen stress that 2020 has brought upon us. There are seemingly endless stressors contributing to a generally down, depressed and overwhelmed feeling these days among nearly everyone. Now and then I’ll be served an article […]
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Prospect Elementary teacher grows community garden behind school
MANSFIELD — Residents near Prospect Elementary won’t have to go far in search of nutrition with the new Prospect Community Garden now available. Ivy Kithcart, second grade elementary teacher at Prospect Elementary, has been pulling weeds and planting seeds since she was a child. Creating a community garden was something she’s always wanted to do […]
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Ashland church helps Culler celebrate centennial birthday
ASHLAND — Jerry Culler sat in a lawn chair under a canopy tent, smiling as vehicles rolled through the parking lot of Trinity Lutheran Church. Culler turned 100 years old on Friday, and his family was determined that he’d have a proper and safe celebration. “As a family, we thought it was very important that […]
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‘Big Blue’ telescope in Bellville serves as a main attraction for stargazers
BELLVILLE — Over the past four decades, people from all over the world have made their way to Bellville for a chance to see outside of the world through the massive 36-inch telescope known as Big Blue. Big Blue was stationed at the Warren Rupp Observatory in the 1980s. Its incredible magnitude in a location […]
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Local artists spread positivity at North Lake Park after ongoing vandalism
MANSFIELD — Luke Beekman, director of Mankind Murals, loves walking and biking along the trail at North Lake Park, a park prone to vandalism in the past few weeks. When he noticed some leftover broken glass on the concrete and children’s playground after seven windows were smashed in at the pavilion, he took it upon […]