Category: Mohican

An Ashland County judge tossed out a lawsuit from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost against Mohican Young Star Academy

PERRYSVILLE, Ohio — A youth behavioral facility in northern Ohio has won a legal fight against the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, but the state agency that licenses Mohican Young Star Academy says it still plans to “move forward” with the process that would revoke the facility’s license in wake of problems there.

In March, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office sued Mohican Young Star Academy claiming it was using “illegal and dangerous restraints” against the boys in its care. The facility’s owner and operator denied the allegations.

Attorneys for Yost’s office presented testimony from a former staff member, state inspectors and video of children who claimed they were injured during restraint holds inside the facility.

But an Ashland County judge tossed out the lawsuit.

And just last week, a state appeals court ruled in favor of the facility claiming the state “failed to present evidence” that the conditions at the facility “present a substantial risk of physical or mental harm to the residents…” and that the state failed to prove there were no other legal remedies available besides the state’s request to install a new operator.

Despite the legal ruling, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services said the state still plans to “move forward” with the process to strip the facility of its license citing a pattern of recurring events – including children who claim they were injured during restraints among other issues.

10 Investigates’ own investigation and review of police records and videos, incident reports submitted to the state and other interviews has uncovered a persistent pattern of problems at the facility including:

• staff who allege they have been assaulted by unruly…

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Anthropologists believe our ancient human ancestors spent their time in trees, so it should be no surprise we love treehouses today.

Treehouses of all kinds are experiencing a renaissance.

When an acre-size slice of land in Gold Hill, Colorado, came on the market earlier this year, local resident Jessica Brookhart, 41, snapped it up for $80,000.

The draw for her: The house was a treehouse.

It was a place she could hang out with her husband and two young boys.

“I had never been inside it, but had admired it from a distance,” she said, admitting it was an emotional purchase.

The man who owned the land had built the treehouse with materials from a recycling center in neighboring Boulder. The structure can fit two adults and two children. There’s no bathroom or running water, and a squat potty is outside down on the ground. There’s a camping stove for cooking, and water has to be brought up. From the windows, you can see Longs Peak and the Continental Divide.

“Since I was a little girl, I was obsessed with little mini-houses, or sheds and treehouses,” Brookhart said.

She sometimes rents the treehouse out online, and to her surprise, lots of people want to use it.

“For me, it’s this magical place,” she said. “I have to block off a bunch of weekends just so we can spend time there too.”

Treehouses have proliferated during the pandemic. There are stylish backyard ones built by professionals, and makeshift ones thrown up just to escape the four walls of home. There are listings on sites like Airbnb for treehouses to camp in.

Unlike the rickety treehouses of yore, many of these new ones have been upgraded. Most are still accessed with a ladder, however, requiring you to climb.

As pandemic lockdowns droned on, Nanci and Ethan Butler of Newton, Massachusetts, decided to build a…

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This undated photo provided by Jessica Brookhart shows a treehouse owned by Brookhart in Gold Hill, Colorado. Brookhart bought it recently and occasionally rents it.

This undated photo provided by Aaron Smith, who owns Treecraft Design-Built in Fort Collins, Colorado, shows a Pagosa Springs treehouse Smith and his firm built. Smith said interest in treehouses has increased in the last few years.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows “Tin Shed” at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio.

This photo taken by Nanci Butler in 2020 shows her husband, Ethan, in the backyard treehouse they built during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. About three months after it was built, an oak tree fell on top of the treehouse and demolished it.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows one of the treehouses at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio. Guests can enjoy luxury amenities in these treehouses all year at this resort.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows “Little Red” at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio. Treehouses at this resort have heat and…

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The last thing a footballer might expect to be berated for on international duty is the colour of his hair, but that’s exactly the fate that’s befallen Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez and West Ham United’s Said Benrahma.

The pair turned up to play in Algeria’s matches, only to be brought back down to earth by manager, Djamel Belmadi, according to Dzair Daily cited by the Daily Star.

It’s said that Belmadi wanted both to “sport a respectable style without frills” and “a look that reflects the traditions and customs of Algerian society,” after they arrived with bleached blond locks

Frankly, the whole scenario is a bit of a nonsense and reminiscent of the time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted that he didn’t sign a player simply because he had a mohican haircut.

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Clearly, there needs to be respect between manager and players, however, making a player dye their hair isn’t going to make them play any better.

? “I once went to see a player and as he walked out of the dressing room, he had a Mohican (hairstyle). I said to my scout ‘nah let’s go home’, not interested. That was a very short scouting trip.”

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reveals the shortest scouting trip he had whilst in Norway pic.twitter.com/x1fGrSMWZj

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) March 30, 2021

Moreover, it could drive an unnecessary wedge in the relationship which, internationally speaking, could have a detrimental effect.

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On this occasion both Mahrez and Benrahma acceded to their manager’s wishes in any event.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

PERRYSVILLE — Pleasant Hill Lake is located on the Richland-Ashland County line, approximately 2 miles southwest of Perrysville. The boat ramp and marina are on Covert Road off State Route 95.

The marina is north of the Mohican State Park.

RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy operates and maintains the recreational facilities located on the north side of the reservoir. A beach, vacation cottages, marina, campground, parking area, picnic area, sanitary facilities, and boat ramp are located on the northern shore of the reservoir. The marina has a concession stand and gasoline dock.

The Mohican State Park is located on the southern shore of the reservoir and provides numerous recreational opportunities on and around the Pleasant Hill Reservoir. Mohican State Park operates a lodge overlooking the southern shore in the bend of the reservoir.

There is both primitive and improved camping in the state park, south of the reservoir, on the Clear Fork River. For information of Mohican State Park facilities, contact 419/994-4290. The reservoir is also open to waterfowl hunting during the fall.

Check for water quality advisories: http://publicapps.odh.ohio.gov/beachguardpublic/

HISTORY

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) owns Pleasant Hill Lake. The lake was constructed in 1938 by damming the Clear Fork Branch of the Mohican River. The lake was originally constructed primarily for flood control in the Muskingum River watershed.

Today, recreation is one of the biggest public benefits. The ODNR Division of Wildlife manages the lake under agreement to provide public fishing and hunting.

The Clear Fork River empties into the western end of the lake. This western end of the lake is shallow with most of the area under less than 10 feet of water. The middle section of the lake gradually slopes to a depth of 20 feet. At that point…

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A charity head shave was among the activities held during a special fundraising event held in Highbridge on Sunday (August 29th).

The popular club in Church Street, Highbridge ran a charity fundraiser in memory of their late manager, Christopher Lambert, with proceeds going to Thrombosis UK.

During the day, Dave Sanders took part in a head shave when Lee Theobold from Theo’s barber shop gave him a colourful Mohican look to raise funds! The before-and-after photos are shown here.

Also, Dennis DeMille, a singer/songwriter from Weston who is a Britain’s Got Talent semi finalist from the 2018 series, also performed during the event. There was also a kids hour, Irish bingo, and a race night.

Kayley Williams, manager of Highbridge Social Club says: “It was a fantastic day and we thank everyone who came along or supported us, raising a great sum for the charity.”

“We were fortunate to have lots of local businesses donate items towards our raffle and tombola.”

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Staff Report  |  Ashland Times-Gazette

LOUDONVILLE – Flxible Owners International, a group that supports Flexible bus enthusiasts around the world, had a Flxible Bus Rally in Loudonville that included a bus rally on Saturday, part of a five-day event.  

Saturday’s bus parade included a disc jockey and announcer, public voting for bus awards, 50/50 raffle and a two-hour viewing of the Flxible buses in downtown Loudonville. The buses were parked in the middle of Main Street while the street was blocked off during this time.

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Flxible was founded by Hugo Young in Loudonville in 1912 as a manufacturer of motorcycle side cars, and closed in 1996. Bus manufacture started there in the 1920s. After the Flxible closure, the plant was used as a bus parts manufacturer and rehabilitation center by MCI Inc. until 2015.

Since 1990, the Flxible Bus Rally in Loudonville has usually taken place every two years. And since 1992, it was taken place at Mohican Adventures Campground.

The rally and parade were open to all Flxible bus conversions, RVs and campers. Owners weren’t required to allow the public to enter their buses during the time in downtown Loudonville on Saturday but were encouraged to let folks take a step inside their vehicles. And an announcer gave narratives of each bus in the parade.

A number of events besides the bus parade were scheduled for Flexible Owners International members during the six days of the event that started Wednesday and wrapped up Sunday, including a swap meet, panel discussion and live musical entertainment.

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GIANFRANCO CALLIGARICH’S Last Summer in the City is a slim masterpiece about a young man who moves to Rome, fails at journalism, fails at love, and ultimately fails at life. Leo Gazzara counts among literature’s great losers, an unforgettable forgettable, and Last Summer is one of those delicious minor works, enmeshed in a particular place and a particular time, that only rarely escape the confines of a national literature and onto the commercial lists of varsity American publishers. FSG’s new edition, beautifully translated by Howard Curtis, is just one of a number of new translations of Calligarich currently in the works. This new rediscovery, bigger than any before, marks the writer’s definitive entrance onto the stage of world literature.

Despite its initial success upon publication (at Natalia Ginzburg’s insistence) in 1973, Calligarich’s novel has long traveled under the radar as a cult classic, and it’s easy to see why. It’s the opposite of a winner — in fact, the book is about a total loser, a near-perfect example of that Italian type, the sfigato. Leo, in that uncomfortable territory around his 30th year, moves from his native Milan down to Rome. There he works for a “medical-literary” paper until its aristocratic patron goes bankrupt, and Leo’s meetings with the old count lose their remaining veneer of professionalism and become roving conversations about the frivolous things — horses and romance and social hijinks — that still delight the titled gentry. Leo is himself a self-styled aristocrat, though born into the wrong class: when asked where he would like to have been born, he replies, “In Vienna before the end of the empire.” He turns down a new job writing copy for a pharmaceutical trade paper because it sounds like too much work. He decides to wait for something else, “[l]ike an aristocrat…

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The canoe draws the eye at the center of the room, a long tapering organic shape ribbed like a whale, with the warm patina of old wood. Above it, the shape of a wave crosses a banner in a web of blue lines — like a three-dimensional digital model, or a weaving.

Past and future come together in Mu-he-con-ne-ok, the Mohican people, people of the waters that are never still, at the Berkshire Museum. Come in and stand quietly, and you will hear their stories in their own voices.

From the Stockbridge-Munsee Nation, Eunice Stick and Sheila Powless, Dorothy and Bruce Davids, Betty Putnam Scheil and Clarence Chicks talk about their experiences over the generations. They talk about young people leaving to work in the city, the cost of education and the resources it can bring — the challenges of learning forestry and preserving birch trees or running for office within the Tribal Council.

Photo by Kate Abbott

A wooden canoe rests at the center of Mu-he-con-ne-ok, the Mohican people, people of the waters that are never still, an exhibit curated by Heather Breugl, director of cultural affairs for the Stockbridge Munsee community of the Mohican nation, at the Berkshire Museum.

It’s powerful to hear them here, in their traditional homeland, said Heather Breugl,…

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Police have launched an appeal to try and trace a missing man from Muirkirk.

Murray Tanner, 48, was last seen at his home address in the Lapraik Avenue area around 11pm on Monday night.

There is growing concern for his welfare.

He is described as being 6ft 1in tall, well built, with fair blonde hair in a Mohican style.

At the time he went missing it is thought he was wearing a teal-coloured North Face jacket.

Police say that when he left his home address, Murray was driving a Silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM with registration plates SD70 PUO.

Sergeant Mark Wason, of Cumnock police station, said: “Murray has now been missing for a couple of days and we are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare and are keen to find him as soon as possible.

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“This is very out of character for him and I would urge anyone who may have seen either Murray or the silver Vauxhall Crosslander VRM, to contact us. Similarly, if Murray is reading this, let us know you are safe and well.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting 3850 of 24 August, 2021.

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