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"Baru" is vying to disrupt the multibillion-dollar market for cabinets with an online, custom approach that puts idle manufacturing capacity to work. But first, founder Tino Go and Baru Inc. need more money. After four-plus years of fits and starts, Baru launched a website on Jan. 25 where industry pros – interior designers, cabinet dealers […]

Accompanied by two nephews and a niece, an emotional Jodie Perry was sworn in Friday morning as Mansfield's new mayor. Since 2014, Perry has been the president and CEO of Richland Area Chamber and Economic Development. She reduced her role to COO of the chamber after she became a candidate. She previously said she began thinking about […]

Jodie Perry helped lead the Mansfield Rising downtown investment and improvement plan four years ago. She will lead a city-wide improvement effort for the next four years as the new mayor. A Republican, Perry defeated Democrat Sherry Vaught on Tuesday, winning 65.74 percent of the vote from city voters, according to final, unofficial totals from the Richland […]

Kent State graduate Brandon Lazenko’s short film “October Roses,” inspired by Stephen King’s short story “Nona,” premiered on the KSU campus on October 13, 2023. “October Roses” follows Adam, a college professor who, from his jail cell, recounts the night he returned to his hometown and met a woman named Nona at a bar. He […]

“We are thrilled to announce the seventh cohort,” said CEO Will Sacks. “The journey to this point has been a rigorous one, involving the meticulous review of hundreds of companies. After careful consideration, we have handpicked the most promising ventures set to graduate in September 2023“. At the heart of Fulcrum’s selection process lies a […]

Richland Area Chamber recently marked an important addition to Mansfield’s creative industry with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Leapyear Studios. Situated in the Braintree building at 201 E. Fifth St., Suite 320, the studio is poised to become a hub for filmmakers and visual artists. https://1812blockhouse.com/business-politics/a-cinematic-leap-in-mansfield

Andy Gardner and Jen Enskat celebrated the launch of Leapyear Studios Friday. Leapyear Studios film school is located in the Braintree Business Development Center.  Leapyear Films, the business founded by Gardner and Enstat in 2011, produced TEDx Mansfield in 2018. Its documentary “The Bride Prince” won four “best documentary” awards and two awards of excellence in the categories of […]

The Manufacturing Hall of Fame has inducted a new cohort which includes four individuals and five families. Angela Phillips of Phillips Tube Group, Paki Goyal of Ohio Brass and Goyal Industries, and Jim Snyder of Hi-Lo Trailers. Paki Goyal was one of the early tenants of the incubator program. When Ohio Brass closed, he and some other former employees struck […]

“October Roses” follows a down-on-his-luck college professor who is hitchhiking through Maine when he is forced to find shelter from a summer downpour. When Adam enters a roadside bar, an eerily familiar woman entices him to accompany her on a path for vengeance. Shelby Bryant and Brandon Lazenko bought the rights to adapt Steven King's […]

In a four-person field, Perry claimed 56.2% of the votes to secure the Republican nomination for Mansfield mayor in Tuesday's primary election. In final, unofficial results from the Richland County Board of Elections, Perry accumulated 1,584 votes. Finance Director Linn Steward was second with 643 votes, followed by At-large Councilwoman Stephanie Zader with 326 votes and political […]