It started out as just something for a kid and his dad to do in order to get through the interminable boredom of our long, dreary Midwest winters. As an eighth-grader, Louis Pawliski pulled out the jig molds his father hadn’t used in decades, then the two of them began making fishing lures just to pass the time.
CLEVELAND — You don’t know him, but chances are you don’t like him.
Don’t tell Austin Theriault you can’t be a race car driver if you grow up in the hinterlands of Maine.
INDIANAPOLIS — Austin Meadows had a two-run double, then scored on a steal and an error in a four-run seventh inning that helped the Indianapolis Indians beat the Toledo Mud Hens 8-7 on Saturday.
Springfield got the early jump on fifth-ranked Perrysburg in Saturday’s Division I softball district final, weathered a late Yellow Jackets rally, then finished strong in taking a 7-3 victory at Maumee’s Rolf Park.
BOWLING GREEN — Perrysburg’s baseball team is going back to the regional tournament for the first time since 2013.
Note: The following was printed before Saturday’s Game 5 in the ECHL Western Conference finals. The Walleye lost Saturday to the Colorado Eagles, 6-3.
SAN ANTONIO — Kevin Durant had 33 points and 10 rebounds and the Golden State Warriors beat the injury-riddled San Antonio Spurs 120-108 on Saturday night to take a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference Finals.
Ed Krauel first set foot on Camp Miakonda nearly 87 years ago for a Boy Scout summer camping trip.
Fourth in a series
As recently as a year ago, Deosjah Brown would have thought twice about touching a mouse, a snake, or a lizard.
Democrats and the establishment press have been clamoring for a special counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia connection, almost since the inauguration of President Trump. Now they have one.
TORONTO — The great Canadian historian John Bartlet Brebner, who taught at the University of Toronto before moving to Columbia, once said Americans were benevolently ignorant about Canada while Canadians were malevolently well-informed about the United States.
Recent debates about increasing the salary of Toledo City Council members warrant some exploration of how other large cities in Ohio handle the matter (May 12, “Toledo council chief slams mayor on pay raises”).
The Ohio legislature thinks that keeping noncompetitive power plants open and making the customers pay for this inefficiency is the best way to go. That is typical government thinking.
Rebuilding the Toledo area’s infrastructure is an opportunity for the city of Toledo to set an example for communities across the country.
This moment in the nation’s political history will either be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency, or the beginning of its reconstitution.
When life starts to count for little in a theoretically civilized society, that society is dying.
ARCHBOLD, Ohio — Red Rambler Coffees, a coffee shop in Wauseon that roasts its own blends, faced the ultimate test last week.
Flying cars, robot butlers, and metallic jumpsuits — the science-fiction future that was to be our present is still not a reality.
Credit author Ron Chernow with bringing a man who’s been dead for 213 years back to life.
General Motors Co. is well on its way to adding more than 650,000-square-feet to its Alexis Road transmission plant, though company officials have been very tight-lipped on their plans for the Toledo facility.
Births
The dogs pictured above are newly available for adoption at Lucas County Canine Care & Control, 410 S. Erie St., Toledo. Listed are the name, breed, sex, and impound number. For information, call 419-213- 2800.