Bowling Green News

It's been a long time coming: Fifteen years and counting. But the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said contractors are finally about to clean up the Fayette Tubular Products site at Gamber and Railroad streets in Fayette, the northwesternmost village in Fulton County.

Two people are facing charges for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl. A Wood County grand jury has indicted 28-year-old Jason Harle and 26-year-old Alison Harle for sexual offenses.

Ohio's two Bowl Championship Series football programs - Cincinnati and Ohio State - each hosted approximately 1,000 high school juniors and seniors during their 2009 one-day camps.

Times have changed for auditions for the musical version of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Ernest.' The musical version, 'Ernest in Love,' will be performed by the Black Swamp Players Sept.

Blue & Purple Boat, part of the Dale Chihuly exhibit opening Saturday at the Franklin Park Conservatory Hydrogen Collapse by Quincy Neri Vetro Bottles Grouping #2 by Darren Goodman Splash Platters by Charlotte Sale Running Water by Nadine Saylor Cobalt and Clear Chandelier by Dale Chihuly Glass will be bigger and flashier than ever in Columbus this ...

BOWLING GREEN, O. In the midst of unsettled state budget negotiations, Bowling Green State University has adopted a balanced budget for 2009-10. The BGSU Board of Trustees at its June 26 meeting approved a $283.6 million educational and general fund budget for the University's main campus and a $14.8 million budget for its Firelands campus.

Ohio State and at least three other public universities want to focus on energy or the environment under a state plan designed to reduce competition, but officials think the proposals are different enough to avoid a showdown over state support.

ELMORE -- Schedel Arboretum and Gardens, located along the Portage River in Elmore, will be offering a variety of seminars and events this summer.

Plastic Technologies Inc. has created a subsidiary that will help market a new system designed to address increased international rPET demand for blow molding, injection molding and thermoforming applications, by efficiently turning post-consumer PET containers into reusable food-grade resin.

A seminar on recognizing the signs of suicide risk is to be held tomorrow at the Wood County District Public Library, 251 North Main St., Bowling Green.

Dog lovers in Bowling Green are making sure pooches in animal shelters are getting their exercise.

Bowling Green, OH/Lake Villa, IL Almost everyone I know right now and several million more that I don't are in a state of drastic life change.

State Rep. Randy Gardner and Wood County Commissioner Tim Brown have called a public meeting for Sunday to discuss increasing water rates at Friendly Village manufactured home park in Perrysburg Township.

Family Fun OHIO BIKE WEEK 2009 June 13-14 Ohio Bike Week will be held through June 14 in Sandusky.

Three ministers are about a third of the way toward their goal of riding 13,000 miles on a bicycle in 100 days, seeking to raise $5 million for hunger relief - one dollar for each pedal stroke.

In a bizarre move, Indian Trail's Town Council voted to prohibit Mayor John Quinn from talking to town employees.

Toledo mayoral candidate Ben Konop Sunday proposed steps to rebuild Toledo's railroad business and threw his support behind federal legislation that would restrict longer trucks from the highways.

The Ohio Investigative Unit will facilitate a Liquor Government Outreach Seminar at the Wood County Education Service Center on Tuesday, June 9. The one-day seminar will focus on various facets of liquor laws and enforcement.

With just a few days left before Chrysler LLC pulls the plug on 789 of its dealers nationwide, the five northwest Ohio dealers who are to lose their franchises on Tuesday are busy ridding themselves of their remaining cars, trucks, and Jeeps.

A Bowling Green man who called in bomb threats to Bowling Green schools just before robbing a downtown bank was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.