Oregon City Council recently accepted the bid of Geddis Paving & Excavating, Inc., Toledo, to be the contractor for the Urban Runoff Capture and Otter Creek Restorations Project.
Oregon seeks funding to extend bikeway path Oregon will submit an application with the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) for funding for the Oregon Trail Bikeway – Phase 4 project.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 16 counties as primary natural disaster areas, allowing the department’s Farm Service Agency to issue emergency loans to eligible growers.
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A ruling on a motion challenging the status of Drewes Farms Partnership in the partnership’s lawsuit to invalidate the Lake Erie Bill of Rights may be issued within a month.
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The Ohio Attorney General’s office has rejected the summary language for a proposed referendum that sought to repeal House Bill 6, which was passed by the legislature last month and signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
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State Senator Teresa Fedor said she supports the governor’s H2O fund initiative but wants to also see more of a partnership with local communities in addressing challenges to the lake.
Five years after Toledo issued a drinking water ban due to microcystin, a toxin detected in the water supply, The Press has examined whether we are winning the battle to save Lake Erie.
A toxic algal bloom may continue to flourish in the western basin of Lake Erie this summer, but Toledo water officials say there is little chance that any substantial amount of poisonous microcystin will again be found in city’s drinking water.
The Lake Erie Center is the University of Toledo’s freshwater research and science education campus. Located in the northwestern corner of Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, the LEC opened in October 1998.
Kurt Erichsen, vice president of environmental planning at the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, spent more than three decades coordinating the efforts of public and private entities in implementing environmental programs.
