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2024 Friday Forecast: Predicting 10 Toledo-area games for Week 6
Each week, The Blade sports department’s Steve Junga, Mark Monroe, Kyle Rowland, Michael Burwell, and Ron Seibel predict winners for 10 intriguing high school football games in the Toledo area. Last week, Seibel and Rowland went 8-2, while Burwell and Junga went 7-3, and Monroe 6-4. For the season, Junga is 39-11, Monroe and Rowland 38-12, Burwell 36-14, and Seibel 33-17. Here are the predictions for this week. Winning Drive Game of the Week presented by Renewal by Andersen: OTTAWA HILLS (4-1) AT NORTHWOOD (3-2)■ Junga: Ottawa Hills, 32-20■ Rowland: Ottawa Hills, 31-10■ Burwell: Ottawa Hills, 45-14■ Monroe: Ottawa Hills, 42-24■ Seibel: Ottawa Hills, 44-14
Bowsher football scores late to win back-and-forth game over Waite
Bowsher quarterback Jordan Singer found Nah'Sohn Triplett in the corner of the end zone for a 14-yard touchdown pass on a 4th-and-11 play with six seconds left to lift the Blue Racers to a 20-18 road victory at Waite on Thursday night. After a 2-point conversion run failed and Waite secured the short kickoff, Bowsher sacked Waite quarterback Carl Foards on the last play of the game to win a back-and-forth City League contest. Waite opened the scoring with a 29-yard TD pass from Shayne Curns to Daveyon Holman on a fourth-down play, but failed to run in the 2-point conversion. With 10 seconds left in the opening quarter, Waite's Damien Harrington turned in a highlight-reel one-handed interception.
Toledo Public Schools Board of Education responds to bill that would change social studies education
TOLEDO, Ohio — House Bill 103, introduced in the spring of last year, would outline a new form and standard of how social studies would be taught, which some educators are opposed to. State Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Twp.) says it's aimed at making sure no opinions are being...
TPS is hoping voters pass a levy and a bond issue this November
Toledo Public Schools officials say they have kept their promise to voters and have not asked for new money since 2014. The district is now asking voters for additional money as well as approval to issue bonds. Issue 19 is a proposed additional tax levy and a bond issue. The new 3.8-mill, five-year levy is meant to cover the district’s operating expenses. The cost to a homeowner is $133 for each $100,000 in property value. The $99 million in improvement bonds would be used for constructing, adding to, renovating, rehabilitating, remodeling, furnishing, equipping and improving school district buildings and facilities, and clearing, equipping, and otherwise improving sites for those School District buildings and facilities. The bond would be repaid annually over a maximum 30 years. The cost to a homeowner would be $71 for each $100,000 in property value.
Free early literacy program looking for volunteers and to help more children learn to read
TOLEDO, Ohio — At the downtown Toledo Library, the Read for Literacy and Clair's Day programs offer free assistance to any person, young or older, looking to learn how to read. Read for Literacy Executive Director Diana Bush said there are about 40,000 adults in Northwest Ohio who read...
Lenawee County residents can join in the Walk to End Alzheimer's scheduled for Sept. 29
ADRIAN — Lenawee County-area residents are encouraged to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s by participating in this weekend’s annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s as presented by the Alzheimer’s Association. The event is taking place Sunday, Sept. 29, at ProMedica Charles and Virginia Hickman Hospital in Adrian Township, 5640 N. Adrian Highway. Registration...
SMCC wins league meet, Airport captures overall championship
MONROE – Airport’s girls golf team built a cushion for itself during the Huron League regular season. The Jets needed that cushion Thursday as St. Mary Catholic Central won the league tournament, but Airport still took the overall league title. “We just had to be fourth or better (in the league tournament),” Airport coach...
UT hosts first Constitution Day address
An exploration of religious freedom took place during the University of Toledo’s first Constitution Day Address. The lecture offered a visiting scholar’s perspective on the Founding Fathers’ understanding of religious liberty as an inalienable natural right. “Natural, in this context, means that the foundation of our rights lies in human nature — human nature we're endowed by the creator,” said Vincent Phillip Munoz, founding director of the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government at the University of Notre Dame. “Natural right to religious liberty is not granted by the government, it's part of the moral fabric of the created moral order in which rights and duties are reciprocal. Mr. Munoz’s Thursday address “Freedom from or for religion?” took place in the University of Toledo’s McQuade Law Auditorium.
UT focuses on providing safe space for students impacted by situation in Lebanon
Members of Toledo’s Lebanese community are witnessing attacks on their homeland from across the globe, with University of Toledo students feeling the impact through social media posts and texts with family. On campus, providing a place where students can feel safe amid the international tensions is a priority. “It is our duty. I mean, that’s our duty as professors, as an educational institution, despite where the students are coming from, despite where their political views are, despite where they stand on issues,” said Gaby Semaan, University of Toledo director of Middle East studies and coordinator of Arabic program. “Our duty is to make them feel safe that they can express their feelings, their emotions, even if we don't agree with it.” Ty Musa, a 22-year-old political science and history major, said he’s having restless nights.
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