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Updated: February/26/2009
Port board picks new president
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Michael J. Stolarczyk, currently an executive with an international logistics firm, is the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Board of Directors' choice to become the local transportation and development agency's new president.
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Updated: February/26/2009
Finkbeiner lobbies for share of stimulus
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and two associates lobbied top aides to Gov. Ted Strickland yesterday on projects in Toledo that could be funded by the $787 billion stimulus.
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Updated: February/26/2009
Sandusky County assistant prosecutor named judge
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland announced yesterday the appointment of John P. Kolesar, 43, a Sandusky County assistant prosecutor, as a judge of Sandusky County Court.
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Updated: February/25/2009
11 named to dog warden advisory panel
The dogs of Lucas County have 11 new best friends. Two months after forming a Dog Warden Advisory Committee, county commissioners yesterday appointed the members. Drawn from different professions and walks of life, most are dog lovers to varying degrees.
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Updated: February/25/2009
Hearing canceled over firefighters' manning concerns
A hearing scheduled in Lucas County Common Pleas Court to determine whether to bar the city from reducing daily strength number for Toledo firefighters was canceled, according to court personnel.
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Updated: February/25/2009
Council cool to tax-credit cut
A key piece of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's budget-balancing plan got a lukewarm response at best from Toledo City Council yesterday during its agenda review meeting. The proposal would generate $5.2 million in 2009 by cutting 50 percent of the income tax credit for residents working in other cities.
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Updated: February/25/2009
Lucas County officials OK living-wage resolution
Lucas County commissioners voted yesterday to adopt a much watered-down version of a living-wage resolution after receiving a wary opinion from the county prosecutor's office.
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Updated: February/25/2009
EPA gives Ottawa River update
The Ottawa River will take a giant leap toward recovery after its $43 million dredging is completed at the end of 2010, but there are no promises it will ever return to being a fishable, swimmable stream again, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday.
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Updated: February/25/2009
Wood County starts ‘Cyber Block Watch’
BOWLING GREEN — The Wood County Sheriff’s Office yesterday launched its “Cyber Block Watch” program, which will e-mail residents twice a month about area crimes.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Paczki push scaled back
Here’s the skinny on a Fat Tuesday favorite: In the cooled-down economy, orders for the traditional hot seller have been slimmed down.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Lucas County Commissioners adopt living wage policy
The Lucas County Commissioners voted Tuesday to adopt a watered-down version of a proposed living-wage resolution after receiving a wary opinion from the county prosecutor’s office.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Konop wants investigation of dog’s death
Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop called Monday for an investigation into the death of a dog after it was tranquilized by a deputy dog warden in Point Place this month.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Lucas County is going green
Lucas County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak, right, talks with Terri Smith after an energy audit was performed on the Smith home Monday. Mrs. Smith, her husband, Lewis, and their nine foster children are getting a ‘green makeover’ from the county, as are five other families in the county.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Sunoco to burn part of Wood County oil spill
CYGNET, Ohio — A ruptured pipeline that resulted in one of the largest oil spills in Wood County history has been fixed and is back in service, according to its operator, Philadelphia-based Sunoco Logistics Partners LP.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Sensors replacement to limit traffic on Skyway
Southbound traffic on the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway will be reduced to one lane for about three hours Tuesday morning while sensors in the pavement are replaced, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced.
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Updated: February/24/2009
NASA program links up Fassett with International Space Station
Fassett Middle School students peppered an International Space Station astronaut with questions Monday as he orbited about 220 miles above North America. Using ham radio airwaves, 16 students at the Oregon school had nearly 10 minutes to pose questions to Michael Fincke, commander of the station’s Expedition 18.
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Updated: February/23/2009
Weekend in review: Best stories, multimedia
With the national economy battering the Toledo area, The Blade this year will examine poverty and the region’s readiness for the turmoil caused as more people lose their jobs. Today, we look at the situation so far. The line is growing for assistance, and no one seems to know where it will end.
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Updated: February/23/2009
EPA aims to buoy fish numbers
Fish lure billions of dollars from humans in the Great Lakes region: The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates that the widely popular rod-and-reel sportfishing industry alone has an $800 million impact on the Buckeye State’s economy. Add to that the money that sportsmen bring to the seven other Great Lakes states, plus the commercial netting business that’s especially big in Canada.
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Updated: February/23/2009
Cigarette may be to blame in South Toledo house fire
An unattended cigarette has been blamed for a fatal house fire in South Toledo on Saturday that killed a 56-year-old woman — the second person to die in a house fire in two days, authorities said.
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Updated: February/23/2009
Fun time at St. Francis Fun-A-Rama
Gladiators joust in an inflated arena in the gym at St. Francis de Sales High School, turned over to school boosters for the annual Fun-A-Rama fund-raiser.
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Updated: February/23/2009
Blade contributor Dyer to speak at BGSU lecture
BOWLING GREEN — The political and military implications of global warming will be the focus of the annual Edward Lamb Peace Lecture at Bowling Green State University.
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Updated: February/23/2009
Glass art with mom in Maumee
Brielle Heft, of Haskins, is eager to share the beauty of a glass nugget during Mom and Me: Nugget Madness at Prism GlassWorks Ltd. in Maumee. Parents or grandparents crafted glass art Sunday with family members.
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Updated: February/22/2009
Firm faith leads Frisch to pen book in face of grave illness
Jackie Frisch has big plans and big dreams to go with her big heart and big family. The only thing that may be in short supply is time. Millions of people got to meet the bubbly mother of 12 when Extreme Makeover: Home Edition built the Frisch family a dream home in West Toledo last fall.
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Updated: February/22/2009
MAC gains points for minorities in head-coach jobs
Long before Gene Cross joined the Mid-American Conference as the University of Toledo men’s basketball coach, he heard something about the league that stuck with him. It was a speech by then-Ball State coach Ray McCallum at a national coaches convention more than a decade ago heralding the MAC’s reputation for diversity in its coaching ranks.
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Updated: February/22/2009
Medalist's return warms fans' hearts - and Hamilton's
BOWLING GREEN - Favorite son Scott Hamilton arrived here Saturday for the celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of his Olympic gold medal win in Sarajevo and remarked on what a pleasure it was to return to his hometown for a happy occasion.
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Updated: February/22/2009
Frisch couple unfazed by harsh questions
When America watched Aaron and Jackie Frisch's small ranch house get bulldozed and replaced with a dream home on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, some people felt a need to ask the Frisches some harsh questions.
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Updated: February/22/2009
Toledo agencies that offer aid fear what’s over horizon
With the national economy battering the Toledo area, The Blade this year will examine poverty and the region’s readiness for the turmoil caused as more people lose their jobs. Today, we look at the situation so far. The line is growing for assistance, and no one seems to know where it will end.
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Updated: February/21/2009
Toledo may eliminate tax reciprocity
Jay and Kara Wagoner have lived in West Toledo for nearly a dozen years and they each have jobs in suburban communities.
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Updated: February/21/2009
United Way seeks help for tax-prep program
United Way of Greater Toledo is looking for volunteers to help with the free tax preparation service it offers working families in Lucas County.
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Updated: February/20/2009
2 deer poachers get record $13,277 fine
If you're going to brag about poaching a trophy buck, you'd better have about $15,000 to back it up. That is how much two men have been ordered to pay in fines and costs, including a record restitution penalty of $13,277 under a new state law, after they were convicted of illegally killing a celebrity white-tailed deer in Side Cut Metropark in early October.
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