Letters to the Editor

The oil and gas industry is continuing its land grab across Ohio. Their main goal is to get landowners to sign on the dotted line of a fracking lease. In return they promise countless economic gains. They never mention the negative side of high pressure horizontal hydraulic fracturing: fracking. Countless peer reviewed studies have been […]

Editor’s Note: This is a submitted column to Richland Source . The author, Stan Culler, chose to share his personal story with hope that it may reach someone in need. If you or  someone you know is considering harming themselves, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-283-8255. Here’s Stan’s column. It was a […]

Letter to the Editor: June 7, 2018 I certainly hope everyone, and especially those that live within the Black Fork Watershed Sub District of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD), will take the time to read the presentation made by Commissioner Marilyn John at the June 4 meeting of Shelby City Council that was covered […]

Trying to stop responsible, safe energy development in our region could threaten potential new jobs and millions in potential new revenues. According to state data, more than 14,000 Ohio companies are tied to natural gas and oil development. All told, Ohio’s natural gas and oil industry supports more than a quarter-million jobs. Without a doubt, […]

The African proverb, “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” proved to be true over the last two years of the annual Mansfield City School District 3rd Grade Spelling Bee. This year we celebrated the 2nd annual Spelling Bee at the Mansfield Senior High School’s auditorium. Eleven schools and 130 3rd graders registered for […]

Dear Discovery School families, We are deeply dismayed by the unsubstantiated allegations made by a few former Discovery School families as reported in the News Journal on Sunday, May 20. We assure you that we have conducted a full investigation and we simply are not able to find any evidence of abuse. Teachers and staff […]

All of us at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library wish to thank the community for taking part in the Library’s first Food for Fines program. Last week, customers could bring in non-perishable food items to donate to local food pantries and the Library would take $1 off fines for each item donated. The community raised […]

Water. How many times today have you touched it … tasted it … thought of it … or even wasted it? Early in life, we learn about the basic needs of all living things. At the top of this very short list is water. Clean, pure, fresh water. It is so simple, and yet we […]

Melanie Houston’s recent letter uses a common anti-fracking scare tactic — exaggeration of methane emissions from oil and natural gas development — to try to advance her group’s “Keep It In the Ground” agenda. Selecting an exceedingly rare well incident as her bogeyman of choice, Houston claims oil and gas methane emissions are major contributors […]

On February 15, 2018 workers at an XTO fracking well pad in Belmont County, Ohio, lost control of the well they were working on which resulted in an explosion, subsequent fire, and a massive methane leak that lasted for nearly 20 days. While this incident exposes problems with the safe operation of fracking wells, especially […]