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Toledo library board approves bond issue for November ballot
TOLEDO, Ohio — The board of the Toledo Lucas County Public Library is looking to put a bond issue on the November ballot that would generate $153 million over 30 years construction, improvements and renovations on the system's facilities. The one-mill levy would cost owners of a $100,000 home...
Volunteers make late Lake Twp. man's vision for veterans live on
Jeff Pettit’s pledge to put a wreath on every veteran’s grave at Lake Township Cemetery during the Christmas season is being fulfilled 16 months after his sudden death. Mr. Pettit, who died Jan. 23, 2023, after a yearlong cancer battle, had started a Memorial Day classic car cruise-in in 2016 to raise money for Wreaths Across America. It was an uphill battle. The first year, the effort raised enough money to put 60 wreaths on 2,400 of the veterans’ graves at the cemetery, which is located on Walbridge Road in Millbury. In 2022, the year before Mr. Pettit died, they were just 200 shy from doing all the graves.
Processional announced for recently-identified WWII soldier returning home to Oregon for memorial
OREGON, Ohio — Thursday's processional details for a recently identified World War II soldier returning home to Oregon to be laid to rest have been announced. Staff Sgt. Jack Coy was killed on Feb. 24, 1944, when the plane he was on was shot down in Germany. Nearly 80...
Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo honor top members during city-wide ceremony
As a kindergartner, James Butler, Jr., put together dozens of Lego sets. In high school, he liked “putting things together” and enjoyed team projects in physics and chemistry while being active in Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo, as a mentor and a projects organizer, he said. On Wednesday, James, 17, was recognized as the organization's David Wehrmeister Club Youth of the Year and the winner of the organization’s top prize — the Carson Family Scholarship, which provides full college tuition and expenses. He has been accepted at the University of Toledo, where he plans to major in civil engineering. “I am grateful, and I am hyped up. … It’s a big accomplishment, and I am proud of myself,” James said in an interview, adding that he is going to continue to work at least as hard in college as he did in high school.
OVI charge against Perrysburg mayor dropped
A charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated against Perrysburg Mayor Thomas Mackin was dropped Friday. The mayor pleaded guilty to a marked lanes violation from the March traffic stop. He will pay court costs associated with the OVI charge and a $60 fine for the marked lanes offense along with court costs associated with that offense. “I’m just glad the we’re done, it’s completed, and we can all move forward. ... It was very involved,” Mr. Mackin said in an interview after the evidence-suppression hearing in Perrysburg Municipal Court was adjourned. Visiting Judge Ralph Perk cited “evidentiary concerns” when he accepted the state’s motion to dismiss the OVI charge as part of a plea agreement, with Mr. Mackin pleading guilty to the marked lanes offense.
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