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Anthony Wayne superintendent reflects on time with the district, looks ahead to future with Oregon City Schools
WHITEHOUSE, Ohio — In 2003, Jim Fritz joined the Anthony Wayne community. He began as an administrator before acting as superintendent for fourteen years. Now two decades later, he's made the choice to move on from the district. "It's been a great place for my kids to grow up,...
Ottawa Hills, Lake advance to D-III district finals
DEFIANCE — Ottawa Hills is one win away from a third consecutive district championship following an 8-1 victory over Archbold. Standing in the way is Lake, which outlasted Otsego 10-6 in the late game of the Division III districts, setting the stage for Saturday’s noon showdown with a regional berth on the line. “We got clutch hits, we scored in five of the six innings, and we got pretty good pitching,” summed up Ottawa Hills head coach Chris Hardman, who led the Green Bears to the state semifinals a year ago and now has his squad at 18-9 this season against a very challenging schedule. Deadlocked at 1-1, Ottawa Hills pushed across two runs in the bottom of the third and pulled away with one in the fourth and two in each of the fifth and sixth innings.
Division III and IV softball: Oak Harbor to face former league foe in regional semifinal
Three Toledo-area high school softball teams will be chasing regionals in Division III and Division IV this week. In Division III, sixth-ranked NBC champion Oak Harbor (24-2, 11-1) looks to earn its second trip to the state final four in three years after reaching the D-II semifinals in 2022. The Rockets of second-year coach Cami Haas face former longtime Sandusky Bay Conference foe Margaretta (19-10) in Wednesday's 5 p.m. semifinal at Findlay High School. Two area teams have qualified for regionals in Division IV, with Buckeye Border Conference runner-up Montpelier (17-7, 7-1) facing Monroeville in the 5 p.m. semifinal at Rossford, and SBC River Division member Fremont St. Joseph (12-13) facing eighth-ranked Vienna Mathews in a 2 p.m. semifinal at Berea.
Retired teachers raise concerns over the financial choices made by the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio
TOLEDO, Ohio — Retirement was something Susan Santoro said she didn't think about, other than with excitement. After working 31 years in education, she became the Lucas County Retired Teachers Association president. She said she was told that Ohio had one of the best teacher retirements in the country, but now, she's not so sure.
St. John's lacrosse avenges regular-season loss in regional quarterfinal victory over Ottawa Hills
An ambitious schedule prepared St. John’s Jesuit for the postseason, and a regular-season loss to Ottawa Hills planted the seed for revenge. The Titans got their retribution on an unseasonably warm evening on Thursday, defeating Ottawa Hills 8-5 in a Division I, Region 5 quarterfinal. The victory avenged a 10-5 loss to Ottawa Hills on April 22. “It felt really good to come out here and show what our team has been through,” St. John’s midfielder Jude Dzierwa said. “Losing to them the previous game, [this] felt really good.” No. 7 seed St. John’s (11-7) advances to the regional semifinal where it will play second-seeded Rocky River on Tuesday. The site is to be determined.
High school boys tennis: Toledo area's 2024 state qualifiers
The Ohio High School Athletic Association's boys tennis state tournament will take place Thursday and Friday at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. Three singles players and three doubles teams from the Toledo area qualified through sectional and district tournaments to reach the state event. Play will begin at 9 a.m. on both days. Competition will take place in brackets of 16 entries for singles and doubles in Divisions I and II. Here is a breakdown of local participants in this year's state tournament. DIVISION I SINGLES
30 Early College students set to receive 2nd diploma
For 30 students graduating Tuesday from Toledo Early College High School, accepting a high school diploma is somewhat of a deja vu experience. For them, that diploma comes several weeks after they received associate degrees from the University of Toledo. The early-college school located in the former UT Driscoll Center offers a college-preparatory program that focuses on the liberal arts. Students take up to two years of English, up to four years of mathematics and science, two years of social studies, and two years of a foreign language at the high school level.
University of Toledo Launches Rocket Career Center to Enhance Local Career Development
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FLOC leader gives advice to fourth graders who wrote his biography
After speaking to a fourth-grade class at Maumee Valley Country Day School Tuesday, Toledo-based labor activist Baldemar Velasquez now has his own biography. “We noticed there were no biographies about him, so we wanted to make the first one,” 10-year-old Kaya Watkins said. The 24 fourth graders first visited Mr. Velasquez at the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's headquarters in Toledo last fall. They were “moved by his life story” and decided to channel their enthusiasm into writing it themselves. Ten-year-old Layla Fogarty said her class wanted to learn more about Mr. Velasquez when they heard he met Cesar Chavez.
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