John DeLeon, 60, of Martin, Ohio, passed away December 19, 2025.

Makenna Moritz, a junior for the Genoa High School girls basketball team, has been named the 2025-26 Northern Buckeye Conference Player of the Year, the conference announced on Feb. 16.

Gibsonburg’s Elly Evarts and Reece Walby were named the Sandusky Bay Conference’s River Division player of the year in girls and boys basketball.

The Woodmore boys wrestling team produced 203 points to easily top St. Mary C.C. (54.5) for the River Division title in the Sandusky Bay Conference Championship at Norwalk High School on Feb. 21.

The Genoa boys wrestling team captured its fourth consecutive Northern Buckeye Conference (NBC) championship on Feb. 21 at Lake High School in Millbury.

The Eastwood girls bowling team, behind Makenzie Grover’s 531, shot a 3,056 as a team to capture first place in the first-ever Northern Buckeye Conference Championship on Feb. 18 at Al-Mar Lanes in Bowling Green. On the flip side, the Eastwood boys took home third place.

The Clay boys wrestling team produced 169.5 points to capture first place in the Northern Lakes League Championship at Napoleon High School on Feb. 21, while the girls wrestling team placed fourth overall.

The Lake Middle School Mathletes earned a second place finish among 16 area schools in the Toledo Area MathCounts competition on Feb. 6.

Genoa’s village administrator Thomas Bergman is excited about some improvements coming to town in both the near future and over the next few years.

The Oak Harbor village council had a second reading at its latest regular meeting on Feb. 17 for one ordinance and one resolution. The ordinance would authorize the village to enter into an annexation agreement with Salem Township, while the resolution would better enable the distribution of liquor permits in the revitalization district.

The village of Millbury hired a new street commissioner, Mike Sanders, at its latest council meeting on Feb. 9.

The city of Oregon’s acting law director, Chynna Fifer, received an official response from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 18 in regard to her question about whether or not the recent ordinance for an extension for data center developer Will Turner of Capacity LLC passed.

Bulletin board items for March 2, 2026.

This week in Toledo history for March 1-7.

Past is prologue, especially when it comes to choosing the kinds of vacations you enjoy as well as destinations. That truth hit hard in recent weeks when I turned our last string of below zero …

The National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL), in collaboration with Cleveland Underwater Explorers (CLUE), recently announced the confirmation of a newly discovered shipwreck in Lake Erie — the …

The Kevin Prater Band will take the stage at the Pemberville Opera House Saturday, March 7, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the door or in advance at Beeker’s General Store, 226 E. …

African Safari Wildlife Park welcomed two capybara pups to the park family. The pups were born Dec. 29 to mother Torta and father Kif. Their sexes are currently unknown. The park’s animal care …