Richland County Fairgrounds — Local services in Mansfield

The Richland County Fair has turned into a HUGE disappointment. We arrived a little after 0800 on Tuesday, Aug 07. I had a friend with me from Missouri & was looking forward to show off the fair. Our plan was to tour the buildings & barns to look at animals & exhibits. We are older, don't get around as well as we use to. We aren't interested in the midway food & rides. We could see what we wanted before the crowds & the heat. To our dismay none of the exhibit halls were open. REALLY? Luckily is was free admission day. I would have been demanding a refund if we had paid admission fees. Save your time, money & effort. Nothing to see here & NO information on-line to inform people. My past pleasant memories of the Richland County fair will remain...

Fair itself was great. Watched motorcross races. Bad experience with a vendor. Purchased Carmel corn bucket. Unknowingly, it had Nuts in it. Grandson is highly allergic to nuts. We caught it in time. No nuts were listed in the ingredients. We went back and I tried to explain this danger to the vendor. He was very rude, yelled at us, grabbed the bucket from me, threw it in the trash, and threw my money back at me. All while yelling all Carmel corn has nuts and that there was almonds and pecans inside. Pecans are high on my grandsons list of allergens. We left shortly thereafter, kind of ruined the night for us. Be...

Having no longer lived in Ohio since the early 2000s I had not known until days ago that the Wunderland lights display is no longer there every year since 2015; to whomever it may concern, to whomever had been involved in any way- Thank you for so many fond childhood memories, so many Wonderful Christmases- it was a yearly tradition for my Mother and Grandmother to take my brother and I to that beautiful display. Thank you and...