August 21, 2023

Mansfield Christian School opened its new athletic entrance addition on Friday. Mansfield Christian recently completed a new 7,000 square-foot- addition and renovation which included a new entrance to the high school gym, handicap-accessible restrooms, larger concession stand and lobby, and renovations to offices and storage areas.

August 17, 2023

Steve Cummins of Mansfield Engineered Components said high school students are often shocked to find out all the things that are made right here in Mansfield. Mansfield Engineered Components, the company Cummins co-founded with his brother Bruce, have worked to remedy this by hosting student tour groups for almost a decade as part of Manufacturing Days. Students from Richland, Ashland and Crawford counties will visit local manufacturers during this year’s Manufacturing Days on Oct. 5 and 6. “One of my employees is from manufacturing days, so I’m fully invested. It paid off, it works,” say Jeff Miller, president of Miller Fabrication & Welding. “It was all because I said, ‘When you’re ready to work, if you need a job, you come find me and I’ll either give you a job or find you a job.’ And he showed up.” That employee is Bryce Courser, a 2022 graduate of Mansfield Christian School. Courser didn’t know what he wanted to do when he toured Miller Fabrication & Welding as a junior in high school, but he remembered Miller’s offer years later. After graduating, Courser studied welding at the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center. Then he contacted Miller, who hired him about five months ago.

March 14, 2024

The truth about why teachers are leaving the profession, and what we can do about it. We know there is a teacher shortage in the education system. Today’s teachers are leaving the profession in staggering numbers. The gap between the open positions for teachers and those going into the profession is growing wider every year, and it is starting to reach alarming levels for educational leaders.

February 6, 2024

It may be the biggest understatement of all: Times are certainly different than they were! Social values, the media, entertainment, and even government systems have seen to that. The way parents are raising their kids has changed as well. Specifically, there is a trend toward letting go of the wheel when it comes to parenting our kids, and simply letting things turn out for the best. Where there once might have been a distinct intentionality to parenting, with clear goals and a proactive approach, now it seems more and more parents are simply reacting to everything around them and letting their kids figure things out on their own.