Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Engage Toledo gets 35000 service requests and other top stories.

  • Engage Toledo gets 35000 service requests

    Engage Toledo gets 35000 service requests
    TOLEDO, Ohio (13abc Action News) - Lori Amison has answered your calls for three years in the City of Toledo. Whether its a problem with tall grass, bad curbs, dead animals, damaged trees, trashed alleys or one of another 28 issues, she's there listening to your complaint, writing down the information, and making sure a crew responds. Engage Toledo gets 60,000 calls a year. Thirty-five thousand service requests go out. Abby Arnold, the commissioner with Department of Public Utilities, "The ..
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  • 2 Toledo teenagers killed within hours

    2 Toledo teenagers killed within hours
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Two Toledo teenagers were shot and killed within hours and a half mile of each other in the central city, police said. Toledo police are investigating the shooting deaths of Treyvon Warren, 18, and Todd Davis, 16, both of Toledo. The younger teen’s body was found in a yard Tuesday morning. But the Lucas County coroner said he likely died hours before a woman called police upon noticing the boy’s hand among tall grass and the..
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  • Metal sculpture trikes turning heads in Toledo

    Metal sculpture trikes turning heads in Toledo
    TOLEDO (WTVG) -- For the next few weeks, you might see people riding a metal Pangolin around Toledo. The sculpture of an animal was created by Juan Martinez in Detroit to benefit 826michigan, a free after school writing and tutoring program in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Now, Martinez's Pangolin, along with a Bison and Bear, will be rolling through the streets of Toledo. In a partnership between Toledo.com and Tony Packo's, the trikes are set to make appearances in The Art Loop Thursday, ..
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  • City of Toledo to repair hundreds of sidewalks

    City of Toledo to repair hundreds of sidewalks
    TOLEDO, Oh (WNWO) รข€” Toledo City Council approved $600,000 to fix Toledo sidewalks.They're so bad in some spots, residents have said they've hurt themselves walking over them."I was walking down the street behind me and one of the squares had lifted and it just happened I was wearing sandals and tripped on the raise and cracked two ribs," said Bob Laurila of Toledo.He lives in the Harvard Terrace Neighborhood and his sidewalks were so bad, he repaired the section in front of his house on his ow..
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  • Toledo mayor urges Ohio lawmakers to pull lead provision from ...

    Toledo mayor urges Ohio lawmakers to pull lead provision from ...
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print COLUMBUS — Toledo Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson today urged state lawmakers to use the city as a guide in developing a statewide lead safety policy rather than throw up roadblocks to local efforts to tackle the issue themselves. Mayor Hicks-Hudson THE BLADE Enlarge | Buy This Image She asked members of a subcommittee of the House Finance Committee to pull an amendment added in the House to the..
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  • 'Beasts' to pedal their cause in Toledo

    'Beasts' to pedal their cause in Toledo
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Tony Packo’s and Toledo.com have joined to bring ‘art bikes’ to Toledo for several community events from today to early June. These unusual pedaled beasts were built to support 826Michigan, a free afterschool writing and tutoring program. Enlarge Three metal mobile “beasts” — unusual bicycles with fantastical sculptured aluminum creatures placed over the bike frames — will arrive in Toledo for a three-week stay star..
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  • Predatory Payday-Loan Lending, Out of Hand in Ohio and Toledo?

    Predatory Payday-Loan Lending, Out of Hand in Ohio and Toledo?
    Darlene*, a single Toledo mom of two children who used to work two jobs and now has a Master’s degree, should have been living the American Dream. Instead, she was weighed down by the negative impact of payday lending. Her story began with $500, the amount she initially borrowed to pay for necessities like repairing her car and the gas bill. “It took me two years to get out of that first loan. Every two weeks I had to borrow more. I had nearly $800 in bills every month. It was a crazy cycle.” U..
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  • Testimony to decide Toledo youth's status

    Testimony to decide Toledo youth's status
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print At what age is a teen accused of murder too young to face charges as an adult? Tyanna Thomas was 14 when Toledo police said she took a shotgun and fired last year at Tommie Thomas, 15, in their central-city home. On Wednesday, the Thomas youth, now 15 years old, returned to Lucas County Juvenile Court, where a judge will decide whether to retain her case or send it to the adult division of Lucas County Common Pleas Court. De..
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  • Work to close lanes, Pelham Rd. in Toledo

    Work to close lanes, Pelham Rd. in Toledo
    Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print Utility work will require short-term lane closings and one local street closing, the Toledo Division of Transportation announced. Today only, Pelham Road will be closed between Meadowwood Drive and Drummond Road for Toledo Edison tree trimming, officials said. Also today, utility survey work will require lane closings on Bancroft Street between Drummond and Middlesex Drive, while on Friday, Columbia Gas work will require la..
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  • Toledo Soup Spring Social at Hensville

    Toledo Soup Spring Social at Hensville
    Toledo Soup Spring Social at Hensville Help turn ideas into fully supported community projects during the Toledo Soup Spring Social. The volunteer-led, micro funding event will give four organizations, selected based on their proposal to the committee, the opportunity to present their idea to attendees. The winning group will head home with the proceeds generated by the attendee’s $5 entrance fee. So head over, drop $5 (we know you have $5, come on), enjoy some soup and listen to the people ..
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