MADISON TOWNSHIP — There will be no shortage of star power when the Madison Athletic Hall of Fame welcomes its inaugural class of inductees later this year. Nine luminaries will be enshrined, along with the 1997 state championship volleyball team, at the Aug. 12 induction banquet at the Mid-Ohio Conference Center. Tickets for the event […]
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Mansfield City Council slated to vote on plan to use $1 million in ARPA home funding
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council is expected to vote Tuesday evening on an agreement for implementation of a plan to spend $1 million in federal money to assist homeless and low-income residents. The legislation calls for the city to spend no more than $100,000 with Harmany & Associates for the work. Funds will come from […]
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Feagin and Bender campaign for Democratic nomination for Ontario’s 2nd Ward
ONTARIO — Two familiar names are on the Democratic Party May 2 primary ballot vying to represent Ontario’s 2nd Ward on City Council. Rose Feagin was appointed to the seat in October 2021 and currently chairs council’s streets committee. Patricia Bender is the wife of Ken Bender, who served as Ontario’s mayor from 2006 to 2010. […]
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Ashland County Health Dept. targeting Amish, ‘isolated populations’ with $230K mobile vaccination clinic
ASHLAND — The Ashland County Health Department plans to purchase a van outfitted as a mobile health clinic to bring vaccinations to Amish and “isolated populations” across the county. The health department received the green light from the Ohio Department of Health on Monday to use leftover funds from federal COVID-19 stimulus money, according to […]
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Mansfield safety forces tax renewal back on the May 2 ballot
MANSFIELD — The 1/2-percent income tax to support Mansfield’s police officers and firefighters has been one of the most popular issues on the ballot for nearly 25 years. For example, nearly two-thirds of voters supported the four-year renewal issues in 2011, 2015 and 2019. The tax, first approved in 1998, will be back on the […]
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Road openings and closings announced by ODOT and Richland Co. Engineer
RICHLAND COUNTY — The following construction projects are anticipated to affect highways in Richland County next week. All outlined work is weather permitting. U.S. Route 42 culvert repairs – NEW IMPACTS – U.S. 42, just north of Barr Road, will be reduced to one lane of traffic on Monday, April 24 for culvert repairs. Traffic […]
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What questions do you have for the primary candidates?
MANSFIELD — Richland Source will host two “Candidate Conversation” nights on April 19 and 20 as an opportunity to come and do journalism with us. What does that mean, exactly? We don’t want to be the only ones asking the questions. As journalists, part of our job is to be conduits for what the public […]
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Madison area Earth Day cleanup accepting volunteers
MADISON TOWNSHIP — Austin Moore drives past Stewart Road and Grace Street in Madison Township nearly every day. He said he thought about organizing a community cleanup in early March. “The two areas I put down at first were areas that I drive by all the time and think could use some cleaning up,” Moore […]
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Ginseng seized in Richland County among Division of Wildlife sale
Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife recently auctioned off $51,542 of ginseng and yellow root that was forfeited from illegal possession cases. That total came from 59.7 pounds of ginseng and 3.1 pounds of yellow […]
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Mansfield’s transformation can be found at Main St. & 4th St. dating from 1977
Editor’s Note This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2016. MANSFIELD — Go there today — to the corner of Main and Fourth Streets — and you’ll find a very open landscape: the friendly greenspace of Richland Carrousel Park, and the great paved plains of the Municipal Parking lot. The same place in […]