Новости за 21.04.2024

NEWPORT, Mich. — Parking lots at boat clubs along the Lake Erie coast typically would brim with cars on a sunny spring afternoon, even one a bit chilly, but such was not the case Sunday at the Swan Boat Club in eastern Berlin Township.

FOSTORIA — WIN Waste Innovations of Seneca County, formerly known as the Sunny Farms Landfill, is offering a free waste drop-off from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday to area residents doing some spring cleaning.

BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green Parks and Recreation is offering city pool summer passes at a discount.

BOWLING GREEN — The Friends of the Wood County Parks will hold a native plant sale from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 4 at the Wood County Fairgrounds, Champion Building, 13800 W. Poe Rd.

The village of Ottawa Hills will be receiving a donation of 200 trees from FirstEnergy Corp. to mark Earth Day and Arbor Day.

The National Museum of the Great Lakes will break ground on a 5,000-square-foot expansion Monday afternoon to provide additional space for temporary and traveling exhibits, new permanent exhibit spaces, and a community education center.

Sunday Chat is a weekly feature appearing in the Blade’s print and digital platforms each Sunday.

Angie Gillis is Goodwill’s district manager for northwest Ohio, and last year she had the idea to combine crafting, designing, and repurposing secondhand items into a monthly workshop.

Removing a child from a family home for the sake of the child’s safety can be traumatic.

Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Toledo received this week $20,000 from the Walter E. Terhune Memorial Fund to support the restoration of its plaza.

ELMORE, Ohio — Over the last few days, Joyce Clemens, of Elmore, has started mixing grain-free dog food into her dogs’ bowls so that when Passover starts at sundown on Monday, they are adjusted to a week-long diet change.

With the waves of its 2022 stormy season settled after two competitors were caught cheating and later sentenced in court, the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament season is again underway for 2024.

NEW YORK — American workers expect to retire at a median age of 65, according to a 2023 survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, or EBRI. But the actual median age for retirement is 62, the survey found.

LONDON — Data breaches like the recent one involving millions of AT&T customers are becoming an almost regular occurrence.

John Krochmalny can remember going to the Children’s Wonderland holiday display when it first opened in Sylvania in 1963.

It’s 6 p.m. on Monday, and traffic is at a standstill on Conant Street in uptown Maumee.

Passover, the Jewish holiday also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, begins at sundown on Monday and concludes on the evening of April 30.

In Ohio, Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women, and the crisis is rooted in history.

THE 100th running of the Mills Trophy Race presented by Toledo Yacht Club, Storm Trysail Club, and the Mills Trophy Race Committee is set for June 7-9 from Toledo Harbor Light to Put-in-Bay.

With a week to go until this year’s Glass City Marathon, now known as the Mercy Health Glass City Marathon, perhaps it’s time to contemplate how northwest Ohio’s biggest running extravaganza got to where it is now.

How I love porches. You may say I am just nosey, but I also see and learn a lot from the vantage point of a porch. I have always said that a house without a porch is missing a valuable appendix. To that end, whether buying, building, or renting, I have enjoyed my share of porches, right up to the present in the Little Green Bungalow.

Be honest: Jumping on a bicycle and pedaling as fast as possible for as long as possible after doing nothing all winter may not be the best idea.

Over the years I’ve accumulated words I really like, usually because they are fun to say. It’s likely you have several of your own. Words such as “brouhaha.” Makes me laugh every time. In the same broad category is “lollygag.” I smile at that one too.

I am the standard-issue wild-eyed liberal Democrat, and a proud member of the Religious Left. I voted for Joe Biden, and will do so again this November. However, I vehemently oppose President Biden’s loan forgiveness proposals, despite my liberal credentials. Here’s why:

“The crooked timber of humanity,” Isaiah Berlin called one of his books.