MANSFIELD — The fifth edition of the News Man Weekly Podcast has dropped. In Tuesday’s edition, Richland Source City Editor Carl Hunnell is joined by Richland County Commissioner Tony Vero, as well as B.J. Price and Adam McElroy from Skate Ohio. Hunnell and Vero talk about a variety of topics, including ongoing efforts to complete […]
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Return to Shawshank: Clancy Brown to participate in 30th anniversary at OSR
MANSFIELD — Clancy Brown will have a chance to see three decades of improvement when he returns to Shawshank State Prison. The 65-year-old Ohio native, who portrayed Capt. Byron Hadley in the “Shawshank Redemption,” will return to the Ohio State Reformatory in August for the first time since the iconic movie was filmed here in […]
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Open Source: Ohio Brass office building set for historic local landmark status
OPEN SOURCE — We published this story in response to a reader comment and question submitted through our Open Source platform. Do you have a question you want our reporters to answer? Click here to submit it. Question: The Ohio Brass Building located at 380 N Main St. is a beautiful building sitting vacant. With all […]
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Local developer transforms decay: Newark Station sparks hope for Mansfield’s Westinghouse site
MANSFIELD — It was a former decaying industrial site near the city’s downtown, last used by Westinghouse until the company closed its doors three decades ago. Sound familiar, Mansfield? Today, in the county seat of Licking County (population 181,359), it’s a burgeoning mixed-use new development with apartments, restaurants, space for art and retail and big […]
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Rising Westinghouse costs, state funding rules will delay Shelby eyesore cleanup
MANSFIELD — Rising costs to finish the demolition and cleanup of former Westinghouse properties in Mansfield will delay similar work planned for what has been described as the “biggest eyesore in Shelby.” Those increased costs — coupled with the Ohio Department of Development’s rules on how additional funds for ongoing projects can be obtained — […]
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Richland County Land Bank may meet with developer interested in marketing former Westinghouse site
MANSFIELD — The Richland County Land Bank board may meet next month with a developer interested in marketing the former Westinghouse properties in Mansfield. Mansfield Mayor Jodie Perry and Richland County Commissioner Tony Vero told fellow board members Thursday they have had recent conversations with a former local resident now living and working in New […]
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Deja vu: Morgenstern challenges Vero in Richland County commissioner race
MANSFIELD — It’s deja vu all over again in the Republican Party primary race for Richland County commissioner. Incumbent Tony Vero meets challenger David Morgenstern in a rematch of the race between the two in 2020. The race four years ago was not close, as the attorney from Lexington earned his second term in office. […]
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Dry up, would ya? Westinghouse site demo/cleanup still slowed by water issues
MANSFIELD — The former Westinghouse site on the city’s east side is not going away without a fight. More than a year since demolition began at the former industrial site, and nearly a year since the Westinghouse “A” building on East Fifth Street was felled, efforts continue to dig up, bust up and clean up […]
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Reimagining Westinghouse: EPA to aid market analysis in Mansfield
MANSFIELD — The Westinghouse industrial site’s history in Mansfield spoke to the U.S. EPA in terms of helping to re-develop its future. Not in so many words. Demolished buildings and concrete jungles can’t speak. But it’s the story of one of the city’s former largest employers that closed up shop more than three decades ago, […]
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City of Mansfield still investigating water leaks at Westinghouse site
MANSFIELD — Contractors at the Westinghouse demolition site discovered five water leaks in August, which the city is still investigating.