Category: Ohio
Pioneer lands $10.5 million USDA loan to build solar energy field east of the village
PIONEER, Ohio — The tiny Williams County village of Pioneer — about a hour’s drive west of Toledo and near the Michigan-Ohio-Indiana states lines — is ending 2024 with a major announcement that will soften the blow from its experience of trying to get one of the nation’s biggest indoor salmon-rearing facilities built nearby.
Judge Carr adds Ohio EPA as a defendant in landmark Lake Erie case
Senior U.S. District Judge James Carr is allowing the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to become a defendant in the landmark Lake Erie TMDL lawsuit he’s hearing in Toledo.
Metroparks board seeks to have replacement levy go to voters early again
The five-member Metroparks Toledo Board of Park Commissioners has taken the first step toward asking voters next May to replace the park district’s 1.4-mill operating levy three years before it expires so it can take advantage of higher property values and guarantee its cash flow for everyday services through 2035.
Seneca County health board trying to again deny WIN Waste operating permit
FOSTORIA — The Seneca County Board of Health is once again trying to keep WIN Waste Innovations of Seneca County from having a valid license to operate the company’s massive landfill on the outskirts of Fostoria.
Saving the iconic American chestnut tree is 'not a lost cause'
More than 120 years after an Asian blight, or fungus, made its way to North America and began obliterating iconic American chestnut trees, scientists are still hoping they can eventually restore them in northwest Ohio and other parts of the Eastern United States where they once flourished.