MOHICAN TOWNSHIP — A 61-year-old truck driver from Texas suffered serious injuries Sunday in a one-vehicle crash on U.S. 30 near Township Road 405 at about 7:34 p.m. According to the Ashland Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Dwayne Glazier of Keller, Texas, was driving a 2019 Freightliner truck and trailer eastbound on U.S. […]
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Eyes in the sky: Mansfield to use new drone technology to improve emergency response
MANSFIELD — ShotSpotter detects gunshots somewhere in Mansfield at 2 a.m. Police officers in cruisers race across town, responding even before 9-1-1 calls come in. A license-plate reading camera in the area captures a vehicle speeding away from the scene, perhaps capturing the suspect’s fleeing vehicle. A camera drone flies from a box atop the […]
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Work zone safety: ‘Our members want to go home safely at the end of each night’
MANSFIELD — Jeff Sellers told Richland County commissioners on Thursday morning that road construction workers want to go home safely at the end of their shifts. That’s why the business manager for Laborers’ Local #1216, joined by other union officials, sought and obtained a proclamation from commissioners in support of National Work Zone Awareness Week […]
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South by Southwest by Midwest: Bridging between time and space
While passing through the blanket of clouds into Austin airspace, I let my mind wander through multiple expectations. Though I was born in Texas, I haven’t been here since I was five years old and had no notion of what may be below. Hills? Desert? As we pass through the veil of cotton, I’m surprised […]
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‘Mansfield Rising’ plan to get new faces & inspiration in March
MANSFIELD — Many recent improvements in downtown Mansfield can be traced to Austin, Texas. That’s where the origins were born for ideas found in Mansfield Rising, at the annual South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) in 2018, attended by 15 local residents. Six years later, a second group is ready to help the Mansfield Rising plan […]