Ottawa Hills News

Donald Covrett, a former Ottawa Hills and Sylvania Township firefighter who skippered a sailboat in a solo race on Lake Erie from Toledo to Buffalo in 1982, died Wednesday in Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania.

Three Toledo residents will be facing a Lucas County Common Pleas Court judge soon on unrelated charges that they each stole money from an elderly or disabled adult, according to authorities in the prosecutor office's Senior Protection Unit.

Lewis W. Saxby, Jr., a retired Owens Corning executive who helped oversee such ventures as insulating the trans-Alaska pipeline and installing an airline terminal roof of fiber-glass fabric, died Wednesday of heart failure in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township.

It's been three years since an Ottawa Hills police officer shot and paralyzed a motorcyclist.