MANSFIELD, Ohio – The distinct chiming of smoke alarms pierced the air at Madison City Mobile Home Park on Tuesday morning during Operation Save-A-Life, an initiative from the American Red Cross to install smoke detectors and spread fire safety awareness. The Red Cross joined forces with the Madison Township Fire Department on Tuesday to provide […]
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NECIC seeks mentors ready to ROAR
MANSFIELD, Ohio – Thanks to a new grant opportunity, North End Community Improvement Collaborative (NECIC) is seeking mentors for Real Opportunities for Achievement and Readiness (ROAR), a program that will allow locals to share their knowledge and experience with students in grades 7 through 12. “We are really hopeful that we get people from all […]
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STARTEK provides school supplies, haircuts for families in need
MANSFIELD, Ohio — Community members filled STARTEK’s parking lot, waiting for their chance to receive a free lunch and free school supplies for their children. Families gathered as early as noon to form a line outside STARTEK’s back doors. By 2 p.m., the parking lot overflowed and a line formed that extended to West Fourth […]
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NCSC sends graduates to multinational company E-Crane
SHELBY, Ohio — E-Crane, a multinational company that specializes in manufacturing equilibrium cranes, is growing. Company representatives from E-Crane’s Galion location visited Shelby’s Kehoe Center Monday to recruit recent engineer graduates and interns from North Central State College (NCSC). E-Crane has three locations in the United States and two in Europe. Their cranes use equilibrium […]
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Ralph Brown retires after 50 years in music education
MANSFIELD, Ohio —When music education veteran Ralph Brown entered the fourth grade in the 1930s, his school’s music teacher introduced him to the clarinet. And the clarinet would become his passion. As passions sometimes do, his took him on a adventure through several states, across an ocean to Japan, and finally landed him in Richland County […]
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Motorcyclists give back to community in Story Book Run
MANSFIELD, Ohio —Ashland, Mansfield, Medina and Wooster chapter members of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association toted puzzles, story books, coloring books and crayons to OhioHealth MedCentral’s main doors on Sunday — all with smiles and an evident spirit of giving. About 60 Honda Gold Wing riders shared the same mission: to give story books, […]
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Local man keeps Two Cousins Pizza alive
MANSFIELD, Ohio – Longtime Mansfield resident Andy McIntyre has been one of the most popular faces of downtown Mansfield’s Two Cousins Pizza Co. since it opened its doors in 2012. Now at 31 years old, he’s not only the main face, but he’s also the body and the brain, purchasing the local pizza shop from […]
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Lucas food pantry, Meijer fighting local hunger
LUCAS, Ohio – Approximately 700 people from Lucas and its surrounding communities receive food every month from the Lucas Area Food Pantry, according to pantry directors Jan and Bill Grubaugh. To help make sure people in the Lucas area don’t go hungry, Meijer selected the local pantry to participate in a partnership that will more […]
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Lexington patient champion honored at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course during NASCAR event
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Will Schafer grew up listening to the roars at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course near his Troy Township home. The 14-year-old Lexington High School freshman never expected one day the cheers would be for him. But that was the case Saturday before the NASCAR Xfinity Series Nationwide Children’s Hospital 200 when he […]
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Veteran NASCAR racer bumps his way to win at Mid-Ohio
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Regan Smith got ready for Bristol a week early. But he did it on a road course. The 31-year-old NASCAR veteran on Saturday afternoon used a move often seen at the famed eastern Tennessee “bull ring” to shove aside Alex Tagliani in the Carousel, one turn from the finish, to win the […]