Mike Brice

Toledo city officials sought to assure residents during a neighborhood meeting that traffic and flooding they fear will be exacerbated by a planned middle school for 3547 Quast Lane can be mitigated with street improvements and detention ponds. “Every time we get a heavy rain, people’s backyards flood,” said Robert Szymanski, of Harvest Lane.

A motion to pass a special use permit for a new Washington Local middle school failed by a vote of 2-2 at the Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commission meeting Thursday. The matter had been delayed at a plan commission meeting Jan. 11 so a traffic study could be conducted after neighbors in the area of the proposed middle school expressed concerns about congested traffic.

Caylee Kirby got bitten by the television journalism bug at an early age. Now she has just been promoted to one of the main morning anchors on WTOL-TV, Channel 11. As a little girl growing up in Las Vegas, Kirby used to watch television newscasts with her parents and grandparents and it had a profound effect on the youngster. “My parents and grandparents always had on the network morning news.