MANSFIELD — Land Bank manager Amy Hamrick shook her head Wednesday as she described the situation on (and in) the ground at the former YCMA in Mansfield. “To be honest, in my worst dreams, it was never this bad. I don’t know what else to say. It’s unbelievable,” she told Land Bank board members on […]
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Mansfield Board of Control OKs $166,125 on aerial mapping needed for GIS system
MANSFIELD — Bob Bianchi said Tuesday his office uses city-wide aerial imaging 50 times every day. “Somebody in our office is probably using it right now and I am not exaggerating,” the City of Mansfield engineer said after the Board of Control approved spending $166,125 on a contract with Woolpert Inc. from Columbus to remap […]
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Mansfield City Council appropriates $282,047 to PRIDE demolition fund
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council passed legislation Tuesday appropriating $282,047 into the city’s PRIDE demolition fund budget. The request from Mayor Jodie Perry will help the Richland County Land Bank cover costs associated with the former YMCA building demolition, initially completed five years ago, on Park Avenue West. However, Perry said legislation passed by council […]
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Mansfield City Council may pay another $282,047 to clean up former YMCA site
MANSFIELD — The former YMCA property is returning to Mansfield City Council. Local lawmakers are expected to discuss a request from Mayor Jodie Perry to appropriate $282,047 from the city’s PRIDE fund to help the Richland County Land Bank cover costs associated with a building demolition initially completed five years ago. The legislation is not […]
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An officer with a smile: Mansfield thanks retiring police Sgt. Jon Ahles
MANSFIELD — Sgt. Jon Ahles always knew he wanted to be a police officer. As a boy growing up in Lexington, he pictured himself pursuing criminals in his cruiser, chasing down bad guys on foot and making all the big arrests. Kind of like the officers on the TV show “Cops” that debuted in 1989 […]
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Moving up, literally: Mansfield police chief elevated to safety service director
MANSFIELD — The first time Keith Porch heard a police dispatcher on the radio was enough to send he and his brother running home. The 49-year-old Porch — on his final day as the Mansfield Police Department chief — laughed in his office Tuesday afternoon as he recalled the day he and his brother visited […]
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Mansfield Fire Department gets $397K upgrade for digital radio system
MANSFIELD — New technology purchases — and the demolition of old buildings — were primary topics for discussion Tuesday for the Mansfield Board of Control. The single biggest expense approved was $397,623 to upgrade the radio communications system used by the Mansfield Fire Department to the digital Multi-Agency Radio Communication System. Currently, the MFD uses […]
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Mansfield may stiffen fees related to litter, junk, trash and unmown weeds
MANSFIELD — It may soon become more expensive to violate city laws involving litter, junk and trash. You may also have to do a better job of keeping your property mowed. Mansfield City Council on March 5 is scheduled to consider two updates to existing ordinances regarding both those topics, found in Chapter 917 and […]
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Gigi’s Tacos and Margaritas opens on Fourth Street
MANSFIELD — Gigi and Hector Berber celebrated the opening of Gigi’s Tacos and Margaritas on Wednesday with staff and community leaders.
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Mansfield City Council approves finance office staffing changes
MANSFIELD — Kelly Blankenship said Tuesday she has ideas for what the Mansfield Finance Director’s office can do. Now that City Council has blessed her sweeping reconfiguration of the office staff, the newly elected city financial leader is ready to move forward with those ideas. It’s not her first time in the finance director’s position, […]