By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 A Lucas County committee recommended yesterday that a team led by HNTB Architects, a Kansas City firm, be put in charge of designing a new Mud Hens stadium. “They have a real vision of what the Warehouse District can be,” Commissioner Harry Barlos said. Mr. Barlos heads […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A2 They say that newspapers are the first draft of history. In 2100, Blade reporters will no doubt be looking back to today’s paper to see what life was like back before teleportation came along. (And presumably to learn the exact species of this “Y2K bug” everyone was […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 If predictions about the future always came true, we would have spent 1999 refinancing our space pods. We’d be complaining about battery prices for our personal jetpacks and hoping the Federation government can do something about cutting the Interstellar Travel Tariff. For centuries, the year that debuts […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Continuing over the next few days, The Blade is looking at significant events and people of the past 100 years. This is one of a series of profiles about influential Toledoans of the 20th century. To get to the old American Embassy in Brussels, you head to […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 For years, he was associated with downtown’s biggest icon. But by the time he died in 1993, Marvin Kobacker had spread his influence and philanthropy across northwest Ohio. Mr. Kobacker, who led Tiedtke’s Department Store downtown for years, dedicated the latter part of his life to community […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Lucas County prosecutors will not be forced to testify about why they decided to charge a Toledo truck driver with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for his role in an accident in August that killed a mother and her daughter. Judge Ruth Ann Franks made that ruling […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page A19 OTTAWA, O. — Eileen Kelley, 1926 – 1999, a Leipsic native who ran an insurance agency and had a flourishing writing career on the side, died Thursday at the Putnam Acres Nursing Home here. She was 73. The cause of death was cancer, her friend Norma Meyer […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Continuing over two weeks, The Blade is looking at significant events and people of the past 100 years. This is one of a series of profiles about influential Toledoans of the 20th century. On March 13, 1912, a traveling play from Chicago, entitled Louisiana Lou, debuted at […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 21 The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority is preparing to hire a consulting firm to help the agency examine how it does business. “I do believe we will need an outsider to help us through the process,” said James F. White, Jr., chairman of the port board’s strategic planning […]
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By Joshua Benton and David Patch Blade Staff Writers Page 15 G. Ray Medlin was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority yesterday, with support coming from a surprising source. Board member Jerry Chabler, who has been a vocal critic of Mr. Medlin in the past, made the motion to keep him in […]
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