MANSFIELD — Temperatures are soaring in the city this week with highs expected in the 90s every day through Saturday. Yet the City of Mansfield has no swimming pool in which residents can cool off in again in 2024. This marks the third summer in a row that a city of 48,000 residents will be […]
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NCF CIM Fabricators/Adena set to create jobs and invest $5 million in Mansfield expansion
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council on Tuesday will consider a job creation tax credit agreement for North Central Fabricators CIM, LLC/Adena Corp. that will allow the company to expand its local operation and grow its payroll. Local lawmakers are scheduled to vote on a 50-percent, six-year tax credit that would allow for a $5 million […]
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OK, now it’s time to vote (really): Mansfield lawmakers to decide on cannabis dispensaries
MANSFIELD — Cheryl Meier asked two months ago why a vote on a six-month moratorium on recreational cannabis dispensaries was scheduled so quickly before Mansfield City Council. “My biggest concern is that we’re voting on this tonight. We’ve got one read and we’re voting on it,” the 2nd Ward council representative said April 16 when […]
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Sterkel Community Park for All: Dream moving closer to fruition in Mansfield
MANSFIELD — Michele Giess admitted Wednesday that her initial pitch about the Sterkel Community Park for All is a distant memory. But at least partial success is clearly in sight for the superintendent of Richland Newhope on the 20-acre, all-inclusive park and playground at the city park off Hillcrest Street. “That feels like a long […]
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20-duplex housing development approved for Mansfield’s south side
MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council cleared the way Tuesday night for a 20-duplex housing development on the city’s south side. Local lawmakers approved rezoning 16.5 acres of the Brushwood Estates into a planned unit development classification. The area, west of South Main Street and north of Straub Road, had been zoned R-1, which only allowed […]
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Mansfield City Council delays cannabis dispensary vote due to missing members
MANSFIELD — The build-up was perfect Tuesday night for the vote on a proposed six-month moratorium on any potential recreational marijuana dispensaries in Mansfield. — There was a lengthy safety committee meeting, during which a representative from The Cannabist Co. said such a facility could add $4.3 million in revenue to city coffers over the […]
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It’s time to vote: Mansfield City Council to decide on cannabis dispensaries Tuesday
MANSFIELD — It will be one of the most interesting decisions Mansfield City Council has made in recent years. Local lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a six-month moratorium on any potential marijuana dispensaries in the city, an idea council has discussed in sessions a few times since Mayor Jodie Perry suggested it more […]
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Mansfield awarded $639K state grant to upgrade signals at Trimble Road, PAW
MANSFIELD — One of the most accident-prone street intersections in Mansfield will receive a $770,000 traffic signal upgrade, 83 percent of which will be paid for through a state grant. The project at the busy intersection of Trimble Road and Park Avenue West will be done over the next two to three years, according to […]
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Century-old culvert replaced in downtown Mansfield with $4.2 million project
MANSFIELD — New blacktop covers the important part of a $4.2 million public works project recently completed on East Third Street in downtown Mansfield. The year-long effort replaced or rehabilitated about 1,700 feet of failing, century-old box culvert from just east of the city’s Central Fire Station at 140 E. Third St. and runs east […]
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Civil War Living History Days coming up June 8 & 9 at Mansfield’s South Park
MANSFIELD — Valerie Hamill did more than tell Mansfield City Council about a planned Civil War “living history” event coming up at South Park. Dressed in a hoop skirt from that era in American history, the woman from Galena, Ohio, made the upcoming two-day event come to life in council chambers. She did it by […]