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New tornado siren to be placed in area where it will serve more than 8,300 residents
Ashland County commissioners gave their OK to replace the tornado siren located near Dale-Roy School at a cost of about $33,000. Homeland Security and EMA Director Anne Strouth gave an update on the last tornado siren replacement for the year to commissioners on Thursday. “The last siren is one of...
Ashland County Community Foundation presents 300 scholarships totalling $491,000
Ashland County Community Foundation awarded 300 scholarships totaling $491,252 to students across the region. This was a record year for the foundation’s scholarship program, with the largest number of scholarships awarded to date. “We congratulate each of this year’s scholarship recipients, and we extend our sincere thanks to the...
Ashland police reports for July 18-19
ASHLAND — The Ashland Division of Police issued the following reports after officers’ activity from July 18-19. These reports include incidents by date, arrests, citations issued and calls by day organized in chronological order. Police fielded 64 calls. There were four incidents, one citation and zero arrests. Incidents.
'Cancer can grow': OhioHealth mammography unit screened 1,000 patients during first year
An extra 1,000 women received mammograms in the past year, thanks to OhioHealth's new mobile mammography unit. Those are patients who would have either never received screening or delayed it a few more years, according to Lori Holzworth, imaging manager for OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital. "If the lady's got a lump,...
Pastor: Overcoming a divided nation will take prayer, love and seeing, hearing Jesus
As I write this article we are two days removed from the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life. By the time you read it, we will be closer to a week removed. The events of that day remind us of how divided we are as a nation, though to be honest, I believe that the divide is magnified in the media and on social media. Most know how to be good neighbors even if they vote differently from each other. But it does raise the question, how should we, especially Christians, handle or conduct ourselves in such times?
Missing endangered child recovered after Ohio Amber Alert
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The child who was the subject of an Ohio Amber Alert has been safely recovered. A four-year-old child was last seen early Friday morning in west Columbus, in the area of Wedgewood Drive and Eakin Road of the Holly Hill neighborhood. He was recovered in the 600 block of Dexter Avenue, […]
New deviled-egg flavor at the state fair will 'blow you away'
Ohio's final entry in the yearly battle for the nation's weirdest state-fair foods: bubblegum-flavored deviled eggs. The Ohio Poultry Association announced the last of seven deviled-egg flavors Thursday that it plans to serve up at the Ohio State Fair, which opens Wednesday in Columbus. They'll all be available at the association's "Devilishly Good Egg Stand" in the Taste of Ohio Pavilion & Beer Garden.
Fallback Studios Wants to Keep Ohio Filmmaking Talent in Ohio
Right now, Cleveland is filling in as Metropolis for James Gunn’s Superman film. Last year, Jeff Nichols turned Cincinnati into 1960s Chicago for The Bikeriders. Fallback Studios CEO Kevin Kale believes our town’s time has come and that Hollywood is about to take notice of all we have to offer.
Winning Ohio Lottery scratch-off ticket wins top prize of $500,000: Find out where the lucky ticket was sold in Northeast Ohio
One fortunate individual in Northeast Ohio has clinched the top prize of $500,000 in the Ohio Lottery scratch-off game Triple Red 777. According to the Ohio Lottery, the ticket was purchased at Circle K on 30 East Cook Road in Mansfield. After deducting mandatory state and federal taxes totaling 28...
The key to talking about mental health: ‘Make sure people feel comfortable.’
Chris Hopper said his leadership in mental health education began in 2018, when a colleague gave a moving speech at an event about losing his father to suicide. Knowing that the construction industry has a high rate of suicide, Hopper, executive vice president and general manager of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee for Skanska USA, partnered with the Lindner Center of Hope. The Ohio-based mental health facility helped Hopper implement the Start the Conversation program, in an attempt to remove the stigma from sensitive topics on the jobsite.
Ohio sees uptick in unemployment rate, lost jobs in June
COLUMBUS, Ohio — New economic data from the state shows that Ohio saw an uptick in its unemployment rate, and that it lost jobs in the month of June. Ohio lost 2,300 jobs during June from the revised May estimate, dropping the total employment to 5,652,900 jobs, according to figures released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The state also did not add as many jobs in May as previously thought.
Ohio is among the top 10 states with the most gun sales, study says
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio is among the top 10 states that sold the most guns in 2023, a new analysis shows. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold nationwide, averaging almost 1.4 million each month. SafeHomes.org, a safety product review website, tracked gun sales using data from the […]
Tech outage affects central Ohio businesses, travel
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Central Ohio, as well as other parts of the world, has been affected by a technology outage Friday morning. All Columbus government resource websites are currently down (fire departments, police departments, etc.), as well as certain Ohio medical websites (such as the Wexner Medical Center website).
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