EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 1 in a 2-part series within Richland Source’s “Rising from Rust” project looking at how Richland area employers are addressing a labor shortage. Part 2 can be read here. MANSFIELD — “We can’t find employees.” It’s a statement heard repeatedly across Richland County – in conference rooms of manufacturers; inside […]
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How employers can respond when struggling to fill open positions amid labor shortages
Employers struggle to fill open positions, labor shortage not going away MANSFIELD — “We can’t find employees.” It’s a statement heard repeatedly across Richland County – in conference rooms of manufacturers; inside the industrial park; at monthly Regional Manufacturing Coalition meetings and in conversations between employers and often anyone who’s willing to listen. There are […]
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Allred anticipates Mansfield’s future, defines “what has to happen”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog is written by one of 15 individuals attending the South By Southwest Conference in Austin with the intention to bring back ideas and to reimagine Richland County. The team has since developed the Mansfield Rising plan, which Richland Source will explain idea-by-idea beginning March 1. A lot has happened in the […]
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Seniors’ technology has come a long way since ‘I’ve fallen and can’t get up’
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 2-part series in this installment of our Gray Matters Solutions Journalism project. Part 1 was published on Monday. MANSFIELD — The elderly woman, living alone, got out of bed six times in one night to go to the bathroom. Sensors in her bed noted the unusual nocturnal activity […]
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Mansfield Rising plan will take buy-in from the community to accomplish
This blog is written by one of 15 individuals attending the South By Southwest Conference in Austin with the intention to bring back ideas and to reimagine Richland County. The team has since developed the Mansfield Rising plan, which Richland Source will explain idea-by-idea beginning March 1. A year ago this week we were planning […]
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Today’s senior citizens face growing challenges living at home
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 1 of a 2-part series in this installment of our Gray Matters Solutions Journalism project. Part 2 will be published on Tuesday. No one grows older longing for the day they will leave their home and move into some sort of assisted living center. In fact, 90 percent of senior […]
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Perry shares impact of SXSW trip after nearly a year
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog is written by one of 15 individuals attending the South By Southwest Conference in Austin with the intention to bring back ideas and to reimagine Richland County. The team has since developed the Mansfield Rising plan, which Richland Source will explain idea-by-idea beginning March 1. In just a few weeks it […]
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The Gray Q & A – S1, E5 — Connection through the ages
MANSFIELD – On this episode of The Gray Q & A, Mansfield resident Ruthie Good, 71, and her mother, Mary Miarer, 93, discuss how their relationship has changed– and how it stayed the same– as they have gotten older. Good explains how she knew it was time to start helping manage her mother’s finances, and […]
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The Gray Q & A – S1, E4 — ‘Winging it on a day-to-day basis’
In this episode of The Gray Q & A, Judy Fisher and her father, Larry Greer, talk candidly about the difficulty of having a loved one who suffers from Lewy body dementia. Life for the family has never been the same since Martha Greer, Judy’s step-mother and Larry’s wife, was diagnosed with the disease a […]
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‘A nursing home is not a place to go to die’
MOUNT VERNON — Recapping the expansion of services and recent construction at the Ohio Eastern Star Home to Exchange Club members on Friday, Michelle Engelbach noted that the campus offers everything from home health services to rehabilitation to independent and assisted living. When she came to the topic of long-term living in the OESH healthcare […]