Oregon News

Lucas County commissioners yesterday approved a six-year contract that assures area residents of a 5 percent discount on electric rates and provides the county with a check for just over $1 million.

Shirley A. Cira, 74, died at 3:50 a.m. Nov. 17, 2009, in Findlay. She was born July 21, 1935, in Harrod to Charles and Margaret Shadley Conkle, who preceded her in death.

On the second Monday of each month The Blade will feature one of the participants in Lucas County's Million Pound Challenge.

The city of Oregon's sewer system is getting a makeover. The biggest overhaul will happen on Woodville and Pickle Roads near Otter Creek.

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Area theaters are serving up variety this week. Comedy, mystery, drama, and music - sometimes in the same show - will be on stages in Toledo and the region.

Two culinary events will be featured as part of the 2009 Tours de Noel, when six Old West End homes decorated for the holidays will be open for tours Dec.

THIS HOLIDAY season, shoppers can expect to find more special events, a larger variety of inexpensive gifts, more lavish decorations, and waves of promotions to get them into the spending mood.

Bell jumps ahead of Wilkowski Independent Mike Bell jumped ahead of Democrat Keith Wilkowski for mayor of Toledo, with 54 percent of precincts counted.

Toledo voters elected a new mayor Tuesday as Mike Bell claimed victory and Keith Wilkowski called him at 11:30pm to offer congratulations.

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Beginning Thursday, children 17 and younger as well as individuals who have flu-like symptoms will not be permitted to come to ProMedica Health Systems hospitals and long-term care facilities except for medical treatment, officials said Wednesday.

It's official. The LHS Alternate Learning and Career Center in Oregon has gone green.

Oregon Administrator Ken Filipiak is resigning. He will be the new city manager of Mentor, located just east of Cleveland, on the south shore of Lake Erie.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 9:13 p.m. A mother is furious with Starr Elementary School, in Oregon, and the Lucas County Health Department after her 7-year-old son was given the swine flu vaccine without her or her husband's consent.

A furious Ohio mother says her 7-year-old son, who has had problems with medications, was vaccinated for swine flu at school against her wishes.

Canadian-based Magna InternationalA plans a $17.5 million expansion of their Toledo facility, according to Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.

Seventh-grader Ashley Roughton fidgeted and fretted as she awaited her turn for a swine-flu shot yesterday at the Fassett Middle School library.

About 25 percent of students got H1N1 vaccinations at the first clinic held at a school in northwest Ohio.

Local government officials are awakening to the need to cooperate, if not collaborate, in security services, economic development, environmental protection, and transportation planning with their counterparts throughout the region.