Toronto News

Organizers are gearing up for the city high school's all-school reunion, set for Sept.

The City Police Department has a new tool in its crime-fighting arsenal - a 2009 Ford Crown Vic cruiser.

BELL, Harold A. ''Babe'', 88, of Hardy, Va., joined our Lord peacefully in his home July, 2. He was preceded in death by his mother, father, sister, son-in-law Rob Pease, and, most recently, his beloved brother, Ellsworth Bell.

TORONTO a ' Mr. and Mrs. Edward and Virginia Fingers celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Friday at a picnic with family and friends.

The Historical Society of Toronto, Ohio, soon will have one of members' dreams realized as it prepares to open a mini-museum at the former Daniels building.

Members of the Toronto Kiwanis Club recently donated $500 toward the city's annual fireworks display July 4 and another $250 to the American Legion Post 86 toward purchase of American flags for area veterans' graves and other veteran-related services.

WINTERSVILLE a ' Kara Nicole Konczal and Matthew James Purviance were married May 16 during a 3:30 p.m. ceremony at the Wintersville United Methodist Church with the Rev.

The city chamber-sponsored Robert Urich Memorial 5-Mile Run/5K Walk is set to begin at 8 a.m. for runners and 8:15 a.m. for walkers on July 4 at the city high school.

The Focus in Toronto organization is set to sponsor another Gem City Days on July 4 with activities ranging from inflatable toys for children to play on to a turtle race at Newburg Landing Park.

LUNDGREN, Helen M. Legros, 81, of Wintersville, died Thursday, June 11, 2009, at Trinity West.

The son of the Toronto police chief and a man who dropped a packet of heroin on the ground in front of a City Police officer while reaching for cigarettes were sentenced Wednesday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson.

Three Toronto men were in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court Thursday. Two of them were sentenced to prison and the third changed his mind about pleading guilty.

The Toronto Ohio Chamber of Commerce's picks for its citizen, business and organization of the year were right on target.

The Jefferson County grand jury returned 19 indictments Wednesday, including a woman who allegedly transmitted nude photographs of a juvenile girl to numerous people and a man who fired gunshots on a city street.

WARSAW - Music and laughter delighted the audience at the Keyboards for the King concert Saturday night at the Warsaw Presbyterian Church.

The home was fully involved and the family made it out of the home safely. TORONTO, OHIO -- A Toronto home caught fire around 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Eleven teachers and administrators throughout the Gem City have been presented with the Joseph and Anna Marie Karaffa Award for Excellence in Education.

The city chamber has set the date for its annual awards banquet for May 28 at the Black Horse Landing restaurant, formerly the north end marina, at 1200 North River Ave.

Every history has a starting point, and for Toronto, it began at the mouth of Croxton's Run where the currents of time have eddied sometimes as violently as the jaded green currents flowing before it.

For the second time in 8-year-old Joey O'Brien's life, a Stat MedEvac helicopter carried the boy through the sky above the Gem City.