By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page W1 Nearly two years after voting to buy one, Richfield Township residents will finally get a new fire truck later this year. Township officials have placed an order for a $193,000 fire truck, scheduled to arrive in October. “It took a while to get everything set up,” said […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Imagine Tom Cruise escaping from a band of terrorists trying to take over the LaSalle Apartments. Jim Carrey mugging for the camera while riding the suspended bicycle at COSI. Kate Winslet acting droll in a 19th-century period piece set in the Old West End. Can you picture […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Toledo will close a deal today that will clear the way for a new mall in Maumee – but still with only oral assurances that it will be “upscale,” as city leaders have demanded. The city has agreed to sell 430 acres its owns north of U.S. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 Lansing’s Oldsmobile Stadium has been an unqualified success, that city’s officials said yesterday, and could serve as a model for Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s efforts to move the Toledo Mud Hens to a downtown ball park. “It has drawn thousands and thousands of people downtown,” said Mayor David […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 City officials are “very, very close” to an agreement with developers that would ensure a new mall in Maumee is “upscale,” Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday. “Our vision for the mall and their vision for a mall are getting very close,” he said. Mr. Finkbeiner and members […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 Only slightly behind the curve, the city of Toledo has made the leap into cyberspace. City hall has its own web site, allowing curious Internet surfers to find out anything from Mayor Carty Finkbeiner’s middle initial (it’s S.) to the phone number for the tuberculosis control division. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 The Hillcrest Hotel near downtown Toledo is close to being renovated into apartments, city officials said yesterday. “I believe it’s going to happen,” Neighborhoods Director Paul Hubbard said. “We’ve got about 85 per cent of the deal done.” The Alexander Co., the Wisconsin-based developer that last year […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 Toledo council approved the renovation of the former Commodore Perry Hotel last night over the objections of members who said the administration had rushed them into an uninformed decision. In a lengthy series of 8-4 votes, council agreed to turn over the downtown landmark to developers William […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 9 One of Toledo’s most powerful Democratic operatives is the top candidate to become the next clerk of council, city hall sources say. But some people question whether someone with such a partisan background should take a job that traditionally has been apolitical. Michael Beazley, 43, a former […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 11 With only the occasional mumble through forgotten lyrics, Toledo’s city council members officially took their seats to the (off-key) tune of “We’re Strong For Toledo” last night. The old civic song – with lyrics “The girls are the fairest / the boys are the squarest / Of […]
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