Elections

SHELBY — Voters in Shelby have freed the city of what city leaders called “a restrictive requirement in the bidding process” by voting in favor of amending the charter. Voters decided to amend Section 46 of the Shelby City Charter, specifically one sentence that states, “No contract shall be let which exceeds the estimate for the […]

MANSFIELD — Conservative Jim Jordan will once again represent Richland County and Ashland County in Washington, D.C. The 58-year-old Republican from Champaign County easily won re-election for Ohio’s 4th House seat on Tuesday, a newly configured district that includes Richland and Ashland counties. Jordan, first elected to the U.S. House in 2006, defeated Democratic newcomer […]

MANSFIELD — More than 46,000 Richland County voters are expected to participate in the 2022 presidential midterm election, according to local Board of Elections Director Matt Finfgeld. That’s about 57 percent of the county’s 81,564 registered voters, which would be an increase of about 3 percent over the last gubernatorial election in 2018. Polls are open […]

MANSFIELD — Ohio Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner, a candidate for the court’s chief justice in November’s general election, recently participated in an e-mail interview with Richland Source reporter Grant Pepper. The two discussed a variety of issues, using some of the questions developed by author and reporter Amanda Ripley as a way of cutting […]

MANSFIELD – Voters in the Mansfield City school District will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve the renewal of two current levies rolled into one issue. The five-year, 19-mill ballot issue, which will not increase property taxes, replaces two existing levies — a five-year levy that expires at the end of 2023 and a seven-year set […]

LUCAS — Voters in the Lucas Local School District will decide the fate of a $30.1 million bond issue Nov. 8. If approved, the 37-year, 12-mill bond issue would cost taxpayers $420 per year for every $100,000 of property value. The issue would help fund a new, $38.2 million K-12 school building. The district is […]

MANSFELD — More than 9,600 voters in Richland County had requested an absentee ballot or voted early in-person by Tuesday afternoon, according to the local Board of Elections. That’s roughly 11 percent of the more than 81,000 registered voters in the county, about two weeks ahead of Election Day. Jane Zimmerman, deputy director for the […]

SHELBY — Shelby is asking voters on Nov. 8 to allow more flexibility in the bidding process on city projects.  Shelby voters will decide whether to amend Section 46 of the Shelby City Charter, specifically one sentence that states, “No contract shall be let which exceeds the estimate for the improvement contemplated.”  In layman’s terms, […]

BELLVILLE — Two familiar levies for Bellville voters are on the ballot this fall. The first levy is a replacement of the police services levy passed in 2017. The 2022 levy is a 3-mill property tax levy asking residents to pay $105 for every $100,000 of property value annually.  Bellville police Chief Ron Willey said […]