Новости за 18.03.2024

The University of Toledo women's basketball team will continue its season with an appearance in the first-ever WBIT, which supplants the WNIT in the postseason tournament pecking order after the NCAA tournament.

Waterline work starting Tuesday will require closings on Nevada Street of one or two blocks at a time, the Toledo Department of Transportation said.

BOWLING GREEN — Leak-detection kits designed to help prevent wasting household water are available at the Northwestern Water and Sewer District in observation of Fix a Leak Week.

BOWLING GREEN – The Imagination Station’s portable planetarium StarLab will visit the Wood County District Public Library, 251 N. Main St., on March 29.

A statewide siren test Wednesday morning will be an opportunity for Ohioans to practice their emergency response and sheltering plans for hazardous weather, the Ohio Emergency Management Agency announced.

County and local business leaders are looking forward to Jeep Fest, the seventh annual summer festival that brings thousands of visitors to the city.

Ohio now mandates that 10 principles of free market capitalism be taught in the high schools as part of the financial literacy curriculum. It’s a lesson that Ohio lawmakers should apply to themselves.

Toledo has hired Derek Sage to be its tight ends coach, a source told The Blade.

COLUMBUS — Jake Diebler, who is officially moving from interim Ohio State men’s basketball coach to the full-time role, had an introductory news conference Monday.

LIFE IS HARD

NEW YORK — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending and some pandemic-era hobbies.

After his Nov. 17 sentence to life in prison for sexual abuse of minors, Michael Zacharias has been dismissed from the clerical state by Pope Francis, the Diocese of Toledo announced Monday.

Five people were shot in Toledo during three different incidents over the weekend.

Country singer Brett Young and rock band Gin Blossoms will headline The Blade’s 40th annual Northwest Ohio Rib Off presented by Dunn Chevy in Oregon.

A South Toledo man who says he was just bumming a ride when some friends decided to rob a Springfield Township grow house in 2006, resulting in one of the robbers being shot to death, may once again legally own a firearm.

BOWLING GREEN — The Bowling Green Parks and Recreation’s Parent’s Night Out program is expanding its dates this spring.

Happy Spring!

Early voting has concluded, and now county boards of elections officials can look ahead to Tuesday’s primary, with school and government funding issues also on most ballots.

Lawmakers are scrambling to avert a partial shutdown ahead of a federal government funding deadline at the end of the week.

The Lucas County Coroner has ruled in the following deaths:

Rice exported to Haiti — mostly from the United States — contains unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, which can increase the risk of various cancers, heart disease, diabetes and other illnesses, according to new research by the University of Michigan.

An Easter breakfast and egg hunt with 6,000 eggs will be held March 30 at the Lake Township Administration Building.

Erin Bellnoski’s kindergarten class at Eagle Point Elementary School in Rossford learned the “Lucky Leprechaun” limerick and fingerplay just in time for St. Patrick’s Day in 2005. The pupils made lucky leprechaun costumes with paper plates, red construction paper strips, and sparkling green glitter to top off the hat.

The presence of a full-services supermarket near the Toledo downtown core puts the lie to the belief that all of central Toledo is a food desert.