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Annual Wander the Warehouse District event returns
After seven years of restoring a building more than 100 years old, Erin Claussen, owner of Hotel Royal, will finally be able to show off the finished product in one of the Warehouse District’s longest traditions. She’ll be one of several owners and tenants giving tours of residential properties and commercial office spaces during the annual Wander the Warehouse District event, which is coming back to the district from noon to 4 p.m. on Sept. 15. “We finished up construction last year and we’ve spent this year getting everything up and running,” Mrs. Claussen said. The Hotel Royal at 337 Broadway St. will be one of eight buildings open for touring in the Warehouse District as well as the Pink Building, formerly known as the Barber-Farris Building, at 144 S. Huron St.; Marck’s Residence at 123 S. Huron St.; the Apothecary-Neighborhood Health Association at 12 N. St Clair St.; Okun Produce at 33 N. Huron St.; the Lofts on Jefferson at 715 Jefferson Ave.; Burt's Theater at 725 Jefferson Ave.; and the Overmeyer Building at 15 S. Ontario St.
2 unusual local homes have new owners
Two Toledo-area homes that attracted considerable attention for their unusual characteristics have been sold to new owners. The Secor Mansion at 311 Bush St., Toledo, was sold to Somo Ventures LLC. The purchase price was recorded as $110,000. The 150-year-old home features 13-foot-tall ceilings, eight-foot-tall doorways, and antique fixtures throughout. It is zoned for commercial use. On the same date, the home at 1360 Old Trail Rd., Maumee, formerly owned by Trudy Stranahan, was sold to Michael and Juliette Donovan for $375,000.
Rolling On: Local rock band makes quarterfinals in Rolling Stone contest
Local act the JT Hayden Band recently nearly found themselves in the pages of Rolling Stone. And who knows, they still might someday. The rock-country quartet (as opposed to country-rock), led by vocalist and guitarist JT Hayden, recently qualified for the quarterfinals in the Rolling Stone-sponsored contest America’s Next Top Hitmaker, where they were competing with hundreds of other bands across the nation. “The grand prize winner gets $10,000, gets to play at a music festival in Austin, Texas, does a photo shoot, and they put you in Rolling Stone magazine,” said Hayden in an interview. “We’re in the top [ten] percent of the people who make it that far. So throughout the country, out of 5,000 bands, we’re in the top 500. That’s a lot.”
City workers examine 10-foot long sinkhole in downtown Toledo
One direction of a block of Washington Street was expected to be closed for several days after a sinkhole that a city spokesman said formed during a recent water main break opened up Tuesday morning. The hole, roughly 10 feet long at the street’s surface, straddled Washington’s two westbound lanes between Summit and St. Clair streets. A left-turn lane on eastbound Washington approaching Summit also was closed. Rachel Hart, a city spokesman, said a water main broke nearby over the weekend and was repaired Monday. The Division of Sewer and Drainage Services determined Tuesday that a sewer had not been damaged, and expected to backfill the hole Wednesday. “It will be at least a few more days” before the street is repaired and reopened, she said.
Toledo-area volleyball players named on 2024 AVCA national watch lists
The Toledo area and southeast Michigan are well-represented on the national preseason watch list for the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-America team and phenom watch list. All-America Watch List To be featured on the all-America list, each athlete must be in the process of completing their senior year of high school, and their high school head coach must be an AVCA member. ■ Ryan Dzierwa, Anthony Wayne
New hotel in the works on Executive Parkway in Toledo
A new hotel, Home2 Suites, is being proposed on Executive Parkway. A major site plan review for the new 109-room hotel has been submitted to the Toledo Plan Commission for its Sept. 12 meeting. The site is zoned multi-family residential and office commercial. Hotels are permitted in office commercial zoning districts but not in multi-family residential zoning districts. The plan commission staff has recommended the hotel site be rezoned to office commercial. The applicant, Jon Roumaya, of Toledo, has also submitted companion cases to rezone part of the site to regional commercial to permit potential future development on the eastern part of the parcel next to the proposed hotel. He intends to split the western 67.64 feet of the parcel off and combine it with the adjacent parcel to create the hotel development site. The remainder of the parcel would become open to future development.
Award-winning NPR journalist to present Mikhail Lecture at University of Toledo
TOLEDO, Ohio — Award-winning National Public Radio host Leila Fadel will present the Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at the University of Toledo. The free lecture open to the public is at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9 in the Law Center McQuade Auditorium, starting with a reception at 5 p.m.
Whitmer's Lowe focused on present before Ohio State
Before his freshman year at Whitmer High School, Carter Lowe's athletic passion was basketball. In fact, until then, he had never been on a football field as a player, even though his older brother Christian had been an offensive lineman at St. Francis de Sales, and his father, Christopher, had also played the game in high school and at the Division III level in college. And, when he decided to give football a try in 2021 as a freshman, Lowe was anything but an immediate success as an offensive lineman. Blessed with great size, decent athletic ability, and a steely determination to learn and improve, three years later Lowe is committed to Ohio State University as one of the nation's top prep recruits at his position.
Former employee alleges abuse, decapitated heads being paraded as trophies at Lucas County Canine Care & Control
TOLEDO, Ohio — A week after officials suspended its volunteer program over social media bullying allegations and a month after a video showing an employee apparently mistreating dogs, Lucas County Canine Care & Control is now being accused by a former employee of allowing dog abuse to take place at its Erie Street facility.
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