Trail trees, trail marker trees, or Crooked Trees are hardwood trees throughout North America that Native Americans intentionally shaped with distinctive characteristics that convey that the tree was shaped by human activity rather than deformed by nature or disease.

 

These distinctively shaped trees have been photographed and documented in the Great Lakes Region by scientists and historians since the early 1800s.

All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church at 25 Church Street in  Bellville, Ohio is offering a public screening of Dream On with John Fugelsang.



Join us for a public gathering of this timely documentary.

The Mansfield Music in the Park Concert Series continues this week at South Park with Stardust.

Food vendors are open after 5PM with the addition of Altered Eats this week. The music begins at 7PM.

Getting your children into the habit of writing now can save them much of stress later down the road. If you get them to love writing now, or just to tolerate it, then high school or college essays will not be another headache to them.

 

There are some simple ways and activities that will slowly build your child into a good writer. You never know, you may discover your child is an everyday Poe or Austen.

MANSFIELD, OHIO: Boom Boom Boom! Fireworks!  While to the majority of us Fireworks are a symbol of freedom, the excitement of celebration, and the American way for some the wonderful sounds of celebration are sometimes also the sounds of nightmares.

Unfortunately to the people who brought you the very freedom your celebrating the sound of explosions can be a reminder of things they would rather forget. For them it can be a trigger to PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) that can force them to uncontrollably feel and re live violent events from the past.

 

 

In the last few years these signs have been popping up in our neighborhood yards. We feel it is important to understand what they are asking of you - and what they are not.

 

Berean Kids is hosting summer Mega Sports Camp at Mansfield Christian School from July 11th -July 15th.  Children will be involved in a variety of sports activities like soccer, basketball, football, cheer leading and baseball. Camp is open to children who have completed 1st - 5th grades.




Registration is $15 per student ($50 max per family).  If you need help paying the registration fee scholarships are available.