By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Bald eagles are nesting in North Toledo, threatening one of the city’s most anticipated construction projects: the eastern section of the Buckeye Basin Greenbelt Parkway. One of the two confirmed eagle nests is in Manhattan Marsh, which means it is in or near the path of the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 A 15-foot-long mural in International Park, a gift from Toledo, Spain, has been a target of vandals, and the city wants to see it moved to a more protected site. The mural, depicting the skylines of both Toledos, is actually a mosaic of ceramic tiles donated to […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 The city’s parks, recreation, and forestry department will be moving to International Park, and some council members are raising objections. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is transferring the department from its Ottawa Park home and into the former Department of Environmental Services building in East Toledo. The reason: to […]
By Joshua Benton and Kim Bates Blade Staff Writers Page A16 Whew. After the area’s nasty bout with winter last week – when snow became a four-letter word – local residents were thankful that Friday night’s storm whimpered instead of roared. “This is nothing,” said David Archer, 36, who was shoveling the light accumulation the […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 The president of the Mud Hens’ board of directors lashed back at Mayor Carty Finkbeiner yesterday, saying that the mayor’s accusations of a conflict of interest are “silly.” “Everything is incorrect,” Ed Bergsmark said, referring to a letter the mayor sent him Thursday. The letter laid out […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner has lashed out at the president of the Mud Hens board of directors, accusing him of a conflict of interest and a lack of devotion to May’s stadium levy campaign. “This project is too important as part of a larger downtown revitalization to allow […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s proposed 60-day moratorium on demolition permits will get a hearing tomorrow before a council committee. City council’s zoning and planning committee will decide at 9 a.m. if it wants to reverse course and stop a drugstore development it has twice voted to support. The […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 In a surprising show of consensus, council unanimously approved a gun-control ordinance last night, but only after 10 amendments to weaken the bill. The ordinance, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime for anyone to leave a loaded firearm anywhere that someone under age 18 is likely […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Saturday was the day of the storm. Yesterday was the day to dig out. After the nastiness of 1999’s opening blast of snow, Toledo took to shovels and plows yesterday to slowly clean up nature’s mess. As the day wore on, the shifting snow dunes shrank to […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 Last year, the Toledo Mud Hens were losers on the field and off. The team went 52-89, tying a record for the most losses ever in a Mud Hens season. And voters crushed a proposed tax increase to pay for a new stadium downtown. But like a […]