The Craig Memorial Bridge in Toledo is 65 years old this year. Opened to traffic in 1957, it provided a key transportation link over the Maumee River, not just for Toledo drivers, but for thousands of motorists using this first major North-South Interstate Expressway.
Clay officially moving to Northern Lakes Published by sports@presspub. on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 8:32pm
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J. Patrick Eaken
By a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, the Oregon City Schools Board of Education voted to leave the Three Rivers Athletic Conference and join the Northern Lakes League. The addition of Clay, Whitmer, Findlay and Fremont Ross to the NLL will create an 11-team league that will begin play in 2023-24, unless the schools are released from their current conferences earlier. Fremont Ross voted to accept the invitation on April 12 followed by Findlay on April 19. The NLL will be divided into two divisions.
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A legendary Baldwin Wallace University coach died this week. (Shutterstock)
BEREA, OH Baldwin Wallace (BW) University Athletics Alumni Hall of Famer William Taraschke died this week, the university announced.
Taraschke was 79. He was a long-time cross country and track and field coach for the school. In his honor, the university has started the Dr. William Taraschke Fund. Taraschke is survived by his wife Dennie, son Jeff, daughters Jody, Kristie, and Kathy, and grandchildren Kaitlyn and Madison. The BW cross country and track and field coaching staff and team joins the rest of BW, family and friends in mourning the loss of Coach Taraschke, said Head Track and Field Coach Jordan Hill. There are simply no words that can justly describe the impact he had on the lives of thousands of student athletes, the BW community and the sport of track and field.
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Harold J. Mucci (1929-2021)
Feb. 12 Harold J. Mucci, a 27-year
Toledo firefighter and dedicated member of Zenobia Shrine who was in demand off duty for drapery-hanging skills, died Sunday in his
South Toledo home. He was 92.
He d had heart problems, daughter
Connie Warner said.
Mr. Mucci retired in November, 1982, from what is now the
Toledo Fire and Rescue Department. He was appointed a firefighter in February, 1956, and spent his career at Station No. 21 at Detroit and Glendale avenues, assigned to be the primary driver of fire engines.
He was at the Trail Fire on
June 10, 1961, when a gasoline tank truck on the