A house explosion in Richland County left one woman dead and two people hospitalized Friday afternoon.
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Column: Celebrate ‘Shawshank’ while remembering the horrors of the real OSR
Images that come to mind when you think of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield likely depend largely on your age. Younger folks likely think of the characters of Red and Andy, Warden Norton and Capt. Hadley and the imaginative prison scenes from “The Shawshank Redemption.” Maybe you think of great music festivals at the […]
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Lafferty Farm near Bellville has a burial mound, whether or not it was human-made
BELLVILLE — In another installment of a series on regional mounds that is unfolding as slowly as geology itself, I bring you today the unofficial Lafferty Mound, a little north of the Knox/Richland County line, near Bellville. I describe it as unofficial because I can find no records indicating that it has ever been declared […]
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Sternbaum murder case aftermath finished in Florida
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a four-part series. Part I was on Feb. 26. Part II was on Feb. 27. Part III was on Feb. 28. MANSFIELD — No trial in the history of Richland County had ever drawn the media attention the Max Sternbaum case did. The capital murder trial that found […]
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Fun Center Chordsmen to perform 50th anniversary celebration on March 23
MANSFIELD — This year the Fun Center Chordsmen celebrates 50 years of acapella singing in the community. The Fun Center Chordsmen will perform in a special 50-year celebration event at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 at the new Lexington High School auditorium. “We performed our first show in 1975 at Malabar High School,” said […]
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Mystery caller triggers another look at Sternbaum murder case, 70 years later
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a four-part series. Part II will publish on Feb. 27. Part III will publish on Feb. 28 and Part IV will finish the series on Feb. 29. MANSFIELD — Several years ago Richland Source city editor Carl Hunnell called Lexington attorney Bob Whitney for a retrospective piece. “Bob, […]
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Mansfield Plumbing Products to close Perrysville plant by end-of-year
PERRYSVILLE — Mansfield Plumbing Products will shutter its doors by the year’s end, as first reported Tuesday afternoon by the Mansfield News Journal. The company produces “performance plumbing fixtures and fittings for use in residential, commercial and institutional markets,” according to its website. Mansfield Plumbing Products is the fourth-largest employer in Ashland County, according to […]
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Column: 9/11 newspaper memory: ‘I’m gonna need you to come in’
MANSFIELD — A knock on the small conference room door on Sept.11, 2001, ended my participation in the weekly department head meeting at the Mansfield News Journal. Then the 40-year-old managing editor at the News Journal, it’s the only time I have ever regretted being called away from any meeting. “Something’s happening in New York […]