There’s something funny about unlikely goods offered for sale together. A friend of mine once spotted a sign somewhere on an Ohio backroad that read “FOR SALE: SCHOOL BUS & PENGUINS.” This sets a pretty high bar, but you can find similarly pleasing juxtapositions at the flea market held regularly at the Richland County Fairgrounds. […]
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Log cabin to be constructed in South Park
MANSFIELD — Plans are forming for the construction of a log cabin near South Park’s historic Blockhouse. Tom Pappas with Richland Early American Center for History explained the details of this project to Mansfield City Council on Tuesday night. He said the group hopes to create a “small village” at South Park, which would feature three log […]
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Ontario Easter Egg Hunt ends quickly, happily
ONTARIO — Marshall Park was filled with laughter, joy and of course, candy-filled Easter eggs on Saturday. An estimated 2,000 brightly colored plastic eggs were tossed around the baseball fields for children participating in the Ontario Easter Egg Hunt: preschool, kindergarten, first and second grades, third and fourth grades. Jenny Dunn, of Ontario, said she […]
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Greenwich man killed in Ohio 545 crash Saturday
MANSFIELD – Clarence F. Jackson, 79, of Greenwich, was killed after a two-car crash on Ohio 545 near Piper Road at 11:57 a.m. Saturday morning, according to the Mansfield Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. Jackson was transported to Ohio Health Mansfield Hospital by Mifflin Township Fire Department personnel where he later died. According to the […]
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MPD offers A Community Event for hardworking students
MANSFIELD — The Friendly House hosted its 20th annual “Community Event” Saturday featuring local law enforcement. Students from area elementary schools came to play games and interact with police and government officials, helping create a bond between law enforcement and the Mansfield community. Todd Newberry, a retired lieutenant who worked with the Mansfield Police Department […]
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Ontario, Plymouth, Ashland art students win AU awards
ASHLAND – Caitlin Rayburn of Ontario won two awards, Plymouth’s Dana Reed earned an accolade, while Ashland’s Nataleigh Everett and Kiana Ziegler also collected honors at the Ashland University 2016 Juried Student Art Exhibition. The show will run through April 1 in the University’s Coburn Gallery. This year’s exhibition offered $1,100 in awards to student […]
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Writing chose this man behind the voices at Malabar Farm
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in Heart of Ohio magazine. It is being republished in a collaborative effort with Richland Source.com. Mark Sebastian Jordan is adamant about the fact that he did not choose writing as a career … writing chose him. The author of the Mansfield Trilogy, Ceely, Phoebe, and Louie, was inspired […]
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RED HORSE hosts National Guard improvement course
MANSFIELD – The Ohio National Guard, both Army and Air, participated this week in a National Guard Bureau (NGB) Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Course at the 200th RED HORSE Detachment 1, in Mansfield. The course ran from March 14 through 18. Twelve airmen of the Ohio Air National Guard participated in the CPI course with […]
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Mass protest on the Square: 1900
“The right of the people peaceably to assemble:” it is a democratic empowerment so fundamental to the essence of our nation that it is inscribed prominently into the very first Amendment to the Constitution. As a core value so central to defining our American personality, it is significant that when folks in Richland County practice […]
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419 Graphix expands services
MANSFIELD – One graphics shop in Mansfield is stepping into the future with a new way of printing backed by science. Using heat to fuse ink onto products like shirts, coffee mugs or cell phone cases, Jason Luce at 419 Graphix is incorporating the method of “dye sublimation” into his business. While the process is […]