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Bowling Green schools superintendent urges voters to approve levy on November ballot
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — The superintendent of Bowling Green City Schools stopped by the Wood County Committee on Aging on Friday to talk to voters about the district's levy on the November ballot, which will add an additional .75% increase to the income tax. Ted Haselman says the levy...
Toledo Christian dominates Holgate in matchup of unbeaten 8-man football teams
Toledo Christian remained unbeaten in a convincing way on Friday night. The Eagles scored touchdowns on their first nine possessions, held a short-handed Holgate team to negative yardage in the first half, and cruised to a 62-0 victory in an 8-man football game at Bowsher’s Charles W. Matthews Stadium. “Preparation’s huge,” Toledo Christian coach Andrew Skeels said. “Holgate’s a team that over the summer, we’ll practice against them. They’re kind of our rivals in the last few years, so we are really prepared for them, just like them for us. “They were short-handed today, but they always prepare well. Defensively, I think we were able to hit the quarterback and it kind of hurt them not having their starter in there. But our defensive line, we kind of try to set the tone.”
BGSU hockey notches overtime victory at Rochester Institute of Technology
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Bowling Green State University hockey team picked up its second overtime win of the season thanks to Gustav Stjernberg’s extra-session goal, winning 2-1 over Rochester Institute of Technology in a game played at the Gene Polisseni Center on Saturday. Stjernberg’s goal in overtime was his first of the season. Ben Doran contributed the assist, his second of the season. Outside of overtime, the rest of the scoring came in the second period as each team scored. RIT got on the board first by way of Simon Isabelle at 14:43 of the middle period. The Falcons, however, knotted it up via a power play less than two minutes later. Dalton Norris found the back of the net assisted by Ryan O’Hara and Adam Zink.
Review: 'Tosca' remains fresh on Toledo Opera stage
The Toledo Opera will open its 2024-2025 season with Tosca, an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, Friday. The opera debuted 124 years ago, but the old warhorse — the opera, not Floria Tosca — never seems to age. Maybe it’s because of the plot. Maybe it's because of Puccini’s drama-heavy score. Maybe it’s because companies like the TOA and directors such as Jeffrey Buchman, conductors like Geoffrey McDonald, singers like Brendan Boyle, Lindsey Anderson, Corey Crider, and other talented cast mates and chorus, keep the work one of the world’s most popular. Maybe it’s all of the above. At any rate, TOA’s production strikes all the right notes, keeping the production set in Napoleonic days, using the traditional sets, and imbuing the chief of police, Baron Scarpia, with the perfect amount of sleaze.
Rock of ages: Expert on Ethiopia shares insights into rock-hewn structures
With a rich history of arts and architecture dating to before the Queen of Sheba, seeing Ethiopia's treasures safely outside of the African country is always a treat. Even Michael Gervers, a professor of history and an expert on Ethiopia working at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, has not trekked that country's mountains and deserts since 2020, when civil war erupted. “I am very happy about this exhibition in Toledo,” said Gervers, who will be delivering a lecture, Rock-Hewn Churches and Sacred Groves: Architecture as the Home of Religion and Art in Ethiopia, at the Toledo Museum of Art from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday. “It is very rare in North America. “It is like a banquet. It is a joy,” he said of the collection of 225 historical and contemporary items being exhibited as part of the Toledo Museum of Art's exhibit, Ethiopia at the Crossroads.
Week 8 game day preview: Kent State at BGSU football
BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University’s football team will look to bounce back from last week’s loss to Northern Illinois when the Falcons host Kent State in Mid-American Conference play. BASICS ■ Who: Kent State (0-6, 0-2 MAC) at BGSU (2-4, 1-1) ■ When: Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
Heart of the Rivalry: Episode 7, There is a Band Controversy
Heart of the Rivalry is a new Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms. The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan. This week our hosts welcome special guest, UT beat writer Kyle Rowland to discuss one of the most sacred of sports controversies: a band controversy brews between UT and BGSU.
Johns Hopkins prof giving nuclear power lecture at BGSU
Francis Gavin, director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a free, public lecture about the history of nuclear power at Bowling Green State University on Thursday. He has been invited to give the 2024 Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History at 1 p.m. inside Room 201 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union, 806 Ridge St., on BGSU’s main campus. Professor Gavin has worked widely in international security and global policy at various academic and national institutions. In 2012, he published a book titled Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age.
Elmore Conservation Club to host Sight-in Day
ELMORE - The 41st Annual Dick Gremling and Richard Marleau Memorial Sight-In Day, sponsored by theElmore Conservation Club, is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26, at the club range, 15550 West Portage River South Road. The day is a public event aimed at giving shooters the opportunity to sight in rifle, pistol, slug-gun, handgun, or bow for the hunting seasons. A donation of $5 per firearm or bow is asked, with proceeds going...
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