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Rainy weather on Sunday will cause issues throughout the week due to rivers and creeks cresting beyond their banks and causing flooding along multiple roadways in the tri-county area. County engineer offices and sheriff departments issued warnings to drivers throughout the area to beware of high water and "to turn around, dont drown." Not all drivers heeded the call with multiple vehicles caught up in the flooding on roads in low-lying areas. Trees down and water rising The National Weather Se...

View Comments SHELBY - The moment at which the Black Fork Mohican River touches the bottom of Main Street Bridge in Shelby usually spells danger for downtown businesses. Around 9 p.m. Sunday, the tributary came dangerously close to overflowing onto Main Street after nearly three inches of rain fell over 24 hours, flooding Skiles Field and Black Fork Commons.  But as night fell, the water began to recede and Shelby residents breathed a sigh of relief. "We dodged a bullet," Mike Thompson, Shel...

Karen Leonetti Ashland County Park District School will soon be out for the summer. You’re probably dreaming of a fabulous family get-away. There is the typical vacation, but gas prices are beginning to soar and so many travel restrictions are still in place. Then there is the “staycation,” but we usually end up tirelessly working around the house; children are bored and you are exhausted upon returning to work. What are you to do? Plan a summer journey through each of the 18 Ashland Coun...

Mar 10, 2021 The Richland and Crawford County Commissioners this week approved for the use of a drone to record video of 15 miles of the Black Fork, which is part of a project to reduce flooding in the Shelby area. RichlandSource.com reports, the project also looks to improve drainage in the area, which has had several flooding problems over the years and a big flood back in 2007. Richland County Commissioner Cliff Mears says the video of the drone footage will be looked at during a meeting i...

Commissioners begin planning Black Fork joint county ditch project Boards appoint group to oversee cost/benefit analysis Al Lawrence MANSFIELD - Property owners along the Black Fork in the Shelby area will have the opportunity in May to view the extent of problems along the river that contribute to flooding in the city and then be able to make public comment on possible solutions in early August. Boards of commissioners for Richland and Crawford counties set the timeline to process a petition ...

Jerry Nelson It was unexpected to find a bourbon distillery out in the middle of the rolling farmland of eastern South Dakota. A distillery that isn’t merely making “here’s mud in your eye” rotgut. We’re talking about spirits that its creator describes as “upscale” and “boutique.” My wife and I have been to Kentucky, the undisputed center of the bourbon universe. We toured a few distilleries and learned that the proper way to enjoy bourbon is to sip it slowly and instead of qu...

1/25/2021 It was unexpected to find a bourbon distillery out in the middle of the rolling farmland of eastern South Dakota. A distillery that isn’t merely making “here’s mud in your eye” rotgut. We’re talking about spirits that its creator describes as “upscale” and “boutique.”  My wife and I have been to Kentucky, the undisputed center of the bourbon universe. We toured a few distilleries and learned that the proper way to enjoy bourbon is to sip it slowly and instead of q...

This story was originally published on Richland Source in 2015. Easter came early in 1913, so did the April showers. Easter fell on March 23, and the sky fell shortly thereafter. Within a week of Easter the weather was being called "Our National Calamity." The storm system officially mounted out west, and came onstage in a big way with a fanfare of tornados in Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana on its way to Ohio. By the time it reached Richland County, it was carrying less wind, much more rain. The first...