By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 22 Toledo will have to wait at least one more year for citywide drop-off recycling, officials said yesterday. But some Lucas County municipalities are saying they don’t want to have to pay for recycling to make up for Toledo’s lack of action. The debate surrounds the way the […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 18 Despite protests from neighbors, a fence at the Toledo Zoo and a Home Depot on Secor Road moved one step closer to going up as planned. Toledo’s plan commission approved the two projects yesterday. But city council must make the final approval. In the zoo project, an […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 19 Toledo’s plan commission will consider two of the city’s contentious construction debates today: a proposed Home Depot on Secor Road and an eight-foot-high fence the Toledo Zoo wants to build near Amherst Drive. Developers submitted preliminary site drawings for the Home Depot store for commissioners to consider. […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 A Louisville-based consulting firm will head the project that will define where and how Toledo grows in the next two decades. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday the Corradino Group will be lead consultant on the Toledo 20/20 Comprehensive Plan, the first major revision of the city’s master […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 13 After a tense, aggressive debate with administration officials, city council’s finance committee approved a bill yesterday that could free up $50,000 to fund seven elementary school nurses. But the council has put the matter on hold until Dec. 9 in hopes of a compromise with Mayor Carty […]
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By Joshua Benton and Tom Jewell Blade Staff Writers Page 13 Peter Ujvagi has assembled enough pledges of support – if they stand – to elect him president of Toledo’s next council, some of his fellow council members revealed last night. The disclosure was made after a private caucus of seven members of next year’s […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 25 In America today, a child placed in foster care waits an average of 14 months before finding an adoptive home. In Lucas County, the average wait is 8 1/2 months. That performance has earned the county’s Children Services Board an award from the federal government. At a […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 21 At 2:30 p.m. yesterday, Toledo council believed the city would put about $38.4 million into keeping Jeep. By 5 p.m., though, that number had increased by more than $2.7 million. That’s because the initial projections created by Finkbeiner administration officials left out key costs the city will […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 17 Twelve community groups are richer today, thanks to grants from the Community Partnership Neigh borhood Matching Grant Program. City leaders hope the neighborhoods that the groups represent soon will be richer too. “These grants will put a fresh face on Toledo’s neighborhoods,” Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said. The […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 4 Democrat Wilma Brown was the only candidate to beat an incumbent member of city council last night – but it came at the expense of fellow Democrat. Ms. Brown, a 12-year veteran of the Toledo board of education, blasted past June Boyd, winning by a final, but […]