Mansfield City Council on Tuesday approved resolutions honoring outgoing lawmakers Laura Burns (1st Ward) and Rev. El Akuchie (3rd Ward).
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Mansfield voters will have choices among 4 City Council races in 2025
MANSFIELD — Voters will have ballot choices in May and November in terms of selecting members of Mansfield City Council. The filing deadline for the May 6 primary election was Wednesday at 4 p.m. and it appears no council candidate will walk through the entire 2025 election cycle unchallenged, according to the Richland County Board […]
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Mansfield City Council OKs $862K for new, versatile mobile operations center
MANSFIELD — Police chief Jason Bammann asked for a mobile operations center that can be used for more than just emergencies. “This is a mobile billboard. This is something the Mansfield Police Department can be proud of and something the community can be proud of also,” Bammann told City Council on Tuesday evening. “I don’t […]
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Mansfield to launch $3.3 million water main replacement program in 2025
MANSFIELD — A long and winding political road will begin moving underground in 2025 when the city begins the process of physically replacing aging four-inch water mains in Mansfield. City Council on Tuesday evening approved the administration’s request to begin using $3.3 million in funding approved by voters in March that will replace 2.75 miles […]
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News Man Weekly: Ashland ARPA and does Ohio State have a chance in the CFP?
MANSFIELD – The 25th episode of the News Man Weekly podcast has dropped. In this week’s edition, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell is joined by several members of the Source media family to talk about Ohio State and the College Football Playoff, as well as a local reporting project on how Ashland County has […]
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Mansfield lawmaker cites accident impact in deciding not to seek re-election
MANSFIELD — Laura Burns said residents in Mansfield’s 1st Ward should have a council member able to give them 100 percent. Still suffering the impacts of a horrific ice-skating accident in New York City in December 2023, Burns will not seek re-election to City Council in 2025. “I have really struggled with it for awhile […]
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Former police captain Shari Robertson sworn in as Mansfield’s new councilwoman
MANSFIELD — Shari Robertson, who was appointed to complete Stephanie Zader’s term, was sworn in as at-large councilwoman Tuesday.
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Mansfield hopes for grant to help fund $975,000 traffic signal replacement project
MANSFIELD — Nearly one in five traffic signals in Mansfield feature “extremely outdated vintage equipment,” according to city engineer Bob Bianchi. He hopes to replace three of the busiest ones with a $975,000 signalization project that would include a $425,000 Ohio Public Works Commission grant. Bianchi said the city has 105 signalized intersections — 19 […]
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Zader exits Mansfield City Council with message: ‘It’s not about party. It’s about people’
MANSFIELD — Stephanie Zader opted not to pull any punches on her way out the door Tuesday night. The outgoing At-large member of Mansfield City Council, who announced in August she was stepping down at the end of September, said her work during her three years in office was about the people. “It’s not about […]
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Mansfield advances wayfinding signage program to enhance city navigation
MANSFIELD — Jodie Perry helped create the Mansfield Rising plan in 2019 as the leader of the Richland Area Chamber & Economic Development. Fast forward five years and now Mansfield Mayor Perry is a step closer to implementing another action item from that plan: creation of a “wayfinding” signage program in the city. Two design […]