MANSFIELD — Rocky Fork Primitives officially opened up their new store front Friday by cutting the ceremonial ribbon. Owners and sisters Rebecca Myers and Jackie Shaffer had gratitude-filled hearts as family members, friends and city officials gathered to offer support. The sisters have been in business together since July 2015. “We were just bored housewives […]
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Pioneer mock crash reminds students of real crash
SHELBY — Some Pioneer Career and Technology students could not handle their school’s mock crash Friday. It was too reminiscent of a time when one of their own died from a crash just four months ago. On Nov. 10, 2015, Katelyn “Katie” Volz, 16, died after her Nissan Sentra slid into a semi-trailer truck head […]
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Commander Gary McCue departing 179th Airlift Wing
MANSFIELD — 179th Airlift Wing Commander, Col. Gary A. McCue, has accepted a position at the National Guard Bureau in Washington D.C. and has established a planned departure of the Ohio Air National Guard unit in Mansfield in June 2016. There will be a final flight of the C-130H Hercules prior to his departure in early […]
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OSU Mansfield English teacher wins highest teaching honor
MANSFIELD — The Ohio State University at Mansfield English Professor Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich had her class interrupted by the dean and director of OSU Mansfield and vice provosts Friday afternoon. The interruption was a sophisticatedly planned way of surprising Kolkovich, who was being told she had received the Ohio State Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. […]
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Lucas to get coveted football prospects
LUCAS — Pending OHSAA approval, the Lucas football program will receive a welcome and significant boost next fall. Graduation has left the Cubs in somewhat of a rebuilding year from last fall’s playoff squad. Yet through a stroke of luck, coach Scott Spitler’s team might have found a pair of silver bullets in Alrik and […]
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Group abandons backyard chickens for frontyard ostriches
Proponents of backyard chickens in Mansfield announced a change in their legislative strategy today by abandoning both backyards and chickens. Their new urban agriculture theory? Free range front-yard ostriches. In a press release delivered – oddly enough – via Carrier Pigeon and dated April 1, Citizens for Mansfield Backyard Chickens (CMBC) explained their unexpected pivot […]
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Stellar Robotics tied for 1st after Cleveland event
SHELBY — The local Stellar Robotics team enjoyed another superb performance earlier this month at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Stellar Robotics, the area’s FIRST Robotics Competition team, finished third among 58 teams at the end of qualification matches March 18-19 in Cleveland. That effort has the team tied for first place in the state’s […]
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Area conferences strive for stability, long-term viability
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a three-part series looking at schools shifting league and conference affiliations. MANSFIELD, Ohio — For almost 50 years the Northern Ohio League was the model of stability. So how did a league whose membership remained consistent for nearly half a century unravel so quickly? It depends on who you […]
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April, May declared Earth Stewardship Months in Richland Co.
MANSFIELD — Thursday’s showers confirmed the Earth Stewardship Steering Committee’s notion that the Earth Stewardship Celebration should run longer than one day. The group had planned a litter cleanup in downtown Mansfield on Thursday but had to cancel that project because of the rainy weather. Fortunately, there are plenty of other cleanup and beautification opportunities […]
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Veterans Service Commission to revitalize Mansfield Cemetery
MANSFIELD — The Richland County Veterans Service Commission will be restoring the Veteran’s Honor Ground at Mansfield Cemetery. The commission will replace 467 headstones with new blue-gray granite stones inscribed to make the stones have a more uniform look, Anthony Delong, director and service officer of the Veterans Service Commission, said at the Richland County […]