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Today is the final day of the 2025 Wood County Fair. The junior fair livestock sale is today, and the demolition derby is the final event in the grandstands. Some of the livestock barns will have fewer animals because the market animals have been released. Other projects will start to be released after the demolition...

Two alleys along the 200 block of Louisiana Avenue were closed permanently Friday as part of the Perrysburg downtown revitalization project to add new parking spaces. One is on the street’s east side, between Swig and Skotynsky Financial, while the other is on the west side between Body and Sole Massage Therapy and...

Maumee, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is inviting the public to a special event ahead of the official opening of a brand-new interchange at Interstate 475 and U.S. 20A in Maumee. The event will take place on Monday, August 4, at 2 p.m., on the north bridge of U.S. 20A near the Spartan Chemical...

A loose lamb, an itchy beef feeder who didn’t want to stand still, and a very vocal pig all tried their best to throw a curveball into the Wood County Fair’s Bill Buchman Showmanship Sweepstakes Saturday night by doing something unexpected. All nine showmen, each representing a different species for the contest,...

The Wood County Beef Producers turn hamburgers and ribeyes into scholarships and support for many junior fair-based initiatives each year thanks to the business they get at the Wood County Fair. The beef producers’ food stand at the fair is by far its biggest fundraiser of the year for the...

About an hour after sunrise Sunday, a half-dozen Toledo Jeep Fest attendees remained camped out under the Anthony Wayne Bridge at Middlegrounds Metropark. These were the remaining overlanders, campers who use their Jeeps for transportation and, often, for shelter. Jason Madasz stood at a camp stove cooking breakfast...

An updated air quality alert was reported by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 11:06 a.m. EDT in effect until Tuesday at midnight EDT for Midland, Bay, Huron, Saginaw, Tuscola, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Genesee, Lapeer, St. Clair, Livingston, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, Lenawee and Monroe counties. "The...

As its Historic Building of the Month for August, the Bowling Green Historic Preservation Commission has chosen the former grocery store at 443 N. Enterprise St., the third in a series of neighborhood markets that began in June 2025. The story of the grocery at 443 N. Enterprise St., known...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Shawn’s Irish Tavern in South Toledo will not reopen, nearly eight months after a fire destroyed the restaurant and several other businesses in the Colonial Village Plaza. Owner Mike Shroyer announced the permanent closure Sunday in a public Facebook post, citing the physical and financial...

“Eat only watermelon and see quick results!” is just one of the multiple misconceptions someone training in a calorie deficit may read on social media. A calorie deficit, as defined by Virginia Wagner, a registered dietician for Mercy Health, is “taking in less calories than what it takes to maintain your weight,...