LOUDONVILLE – In his first season as Loudonville’s coach, Rick Rios led the Redbirds to a 5-5 record in 2015. With a young roster and a tough schedule, Rios knows he’s facing a challenge but he still is confident in his Loudonville squad’s ability to grow and improve heading into the 2016 season. “Everybody wants […]
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Cult of Cats show offers a smooth groove at Fourth St. Bar
MANSFIELD — A few weeks ago I told ‘Karaoke King’ Sam Romagnoli that one of the (many) reasons I enjoy living in Mansfield is that it seems a bit under-the- radar. Every now and then I get a liberating feeling that no one outside is paying particularly close attention and that, somehow, you can get […]
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Ohio should be ashamed of its child-protection funding
MANSFIELD — Ohio Department of Job and Family Services spokesperson Angela Terez misrepresented facts about the state’s child protection funding in the recent article “Impact of Marcus Fiesel’s death reverberates 10 years later,” published in the Dayton Daily News. This death, all deaths, are tragedies. Some, but not all, of the changes since this youngster’s […]
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RCT improvements connecting Mansfield to Shelby begin on Monday
MANSFIELD — The first of numerous improvements to the Richland County Transit fixed route system will be implemented on Monday, Aug. 22. That’s the day all four trips that go to and from Shelby will begin serving downtown Shelby. For the past year only the trips that leave Mansfield at 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. […]
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Bill Schmidt: Getting above it all with aerial photography
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally appeared in Heart of Ohio Magazine in 2013. It is being republished through a cooperative agreement with Richland Source. To read more stories on Heart of Ohio Magazine log on at www.heartofohiomagazine.com. Bill Schmidt has been flying for more than 30 years. His first airborne machine was an ultra-light in which the pilot sits exposed […]
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Native Son: Raising the Liberty Pole in Richland County
Every four years when the U.S. Presidential election heats up, all that political energy awakens old memories of elections past in Richland County. There was a time when wildly enthusiastic partisans here used to demonstrate the passion they felt for their candidates by engaging in a very old American patriotic tradition: raising a Liberty Pole. […]
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Warriors top Lady Lex on opening night
LEXINGTON, Ohio — First-year Lexington coach Tyson Porter couldn’t have asked for a better test. Lady Lex may have dropped a 3-0 decision to cross-county rival Ontario in Friday’s season opener, but Porter was more interested in seeing how his team would compete against one of the premier programs in north central Ohio than the […]
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Warriors open with win over Lex
LEXINGTON, Ohio — The stakes weren’t as high, but the intensity matched their last meeting. Ontario scored a pair of goals during a six-minute span of the second half and held on for a 2-1 win over Lexington in the season opener Friday at Lexington High School. The Warriors avenged a 3-0 loss to Lex […]