Rossford News

As the area braces for the first major snowstorm of the season, most Toledo-area schools have closed.

Centennial celebrations. There have been so many in the area over the years. The Toledo Zoo, the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Country Club, the Toledo Club, Inverness Club, and yes, The Blade, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year.

Dozens of concerned parents and citizens in Rossford gathered Thursday night to hear more about the future of their schools and how the upcoming casino will affect them.

Rossford School District leaders are hosting a forum for the public on the future of the district Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. in the Rossford High School cafeteria.

Rossford junior and senior high schools are about to have the new Hollywood Casino as a neighbor, and that has some concerned.

A boat that was being hauled on a trailer on I-75 became engulfed in flames. The driver managed to get the trailer to the side of the highway near Buck Road.

To Cecil Adkins, the municipal pool in the Village of Walbridge should be regarded as a public asset worthy of the villagea s investment of time and financial resources.

The Lake Township trustees ended 2009 with a flurry, approving wage contracts with union and non-union employees; signing agreements for dispatching for emergency services, and other related matters.

Ohioans are expected to benefit from five federal grants totaling nearly $24 million that were part of $28 million worth of grants awarded Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Labor and earmarked for retraining of workers for jobs in the growing "green" energy sector.

NORTHWEST Ohio and southeast Michigan today, economists say, are like a trauma patient emerging from the operating room: We've survived the radical economic surgery of 2009 and are about to begin a long, collective recovery.

FREMONT -- The Rev. Rose Stewart is the new pastor at the Warren Chapel AME Church in town.

Michael W. Smith wrote Cobras and Their Kin, a quick and easy reference guide on snakes of all kinds, because he felt there was a lack of books on the subject.

When Brian Sims shot a buck while hunting private land in Huron County on Dec. 19, he knew it had a strange rack.

Emergency crews are getting ready for winter rescues with a practice run at the Rossford Marina.

These Brothers in Arms found out they had grown up a mere 3 miles apart. Two men from Rossford give new meaning to the phrase, "It's a small world!" 13abc's Kristin Emery talked with them about how they met halfway around the globe.

Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 12:57 p.m. Read more: Local , Automotive , Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority , TARPS , Call A Ride , Toledo Area Regional Paratransit Service The Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority will implement changes effective Sunday, Dec.

"...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience." - Malcolm Gladwell , author of Blink and The Tipping Point .

Just before rumbling out of the FedEx Ground delivery hub in Perrysburg Township, driver Dan Peake scribbles a message on a sticky note instructing a customer who is away from home about how to arrange for a package delivery.

WOODVILLE TOWNSHIP - A Rossford woman was listed in critical condition Sunday in a Toledo hospital after she was involved in a vehicle accident Saturday night.

Three local firms are recipients of Ohio Golden Trowel Awards from the International Masonry Institute of Annapolis, Md.