Covid-19

MANSFIELD — The Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center (MOESC) and Galion City Schools will be hosting two voluntary student vaccination clinics for any students ages 16 and older in Richland and Crawford counties. The Pfizer vaccine will be administered. Children ages 16 and 17 who are not emancipated must have parent or legal guardian consent. However, parents […]

COLUMBUS — It doesn’t look like statewide COVID-19 health restrictions are coming off any time soon. In fact, numbers around Ohio, and Richland County, remain headed in the wrong direction. Despite the fact 36 percent of the state’s residents have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, numbers of new coronavirus cases […]

MANSFIELD — Residents who lost loved ones due to COVID-19 are eligible to apply for up to $9,000 in reimbursed funeral costs, effective today, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Two pieces of legislation recently passed by Congress  — the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Rescue Plan Act […]

MANSFIELD – Eleven Richland County residents are hospitalized with COVID-19 when Richland County Public Health released its weekly updated numbers from the Ohio Department of Health on Friday afternoon. The data totals are listed below as of April 9 at 2 p.m. The U.S. and Global data is from Johns Hopkins. Richland County has 8,139 […]

COLUMBUS — Richland County, just two weeks ago, was on the verge of improving to “orange” in the state’s COVID-19 Ohio Public Health Advisory system. It could have been the county’s first “non-red” rating since Oct. 15. Two weeks later, the numbers of new infections — and two other key indicators — are all headed […]

ONTARIO — The Area Agency on Aging still has availability for its mass COVID-19 vaccination effort Thursday. Walk-ins are welcome until 4 p.m. or until vaccine doses run out. The agency’s Nicole Williams said the clinic has a total of 300 doses of the Moderna vaccine to administer first-time jabs. Any Ohioan from any county […]

ASHLAND — An Ashland County Common Pleas Court judge on Tuesday ruled Gov. Mike DeWine, through the Ohio Health Department, has no legal authority to issue or enforce mask mandates. Judge Ronald Forsthoefel issued the ruling in a case brought against the Ashland County Health Department by Cattlemans Restaurant in Savannah, bringing to an end […]

COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine announced less than a month ago that “victory is in sight” in the state’s fight against COVID-19. On Thursday, as new cases and hospitalizations are again rising, the governor and his chief medical officer warned residents cannot relax protective measures as the state’s vaccine program continues to ramp up. “For […]

MANSFIELD — Richland County is on the verge of improving to “orange” in the state’s COVID-19 Ohio Public Health Advisory system for the first time in six months. According to the Ohio Department of Health website on Thursday, the county reported 134 new cases of coronavirus in the past two weeks, a 44-percent reduction in […]