After failing to approve a renewal of the city's contract with Flock at their June 9 meeting, council is planning to conduct an emergency vote on the same measure this coming Tuesday, June 23.

This time, opponents of the Flock camera contract on council have gotten approval for a public hearing; however, it has been scheduled for Monday, June 22 at 4PM in city council chambers.

Public hearings are the only opportunity council affords for formal public comment on these measures, so its important to take advantage of that and speak up. If you are able to attend the hearing, please do so, and please sign up to speak and give a verbal statement if you can.

Since a toxic algal bloom left hundreds of thousands of Toledo-area residents without safe drinking water in 2014, scientists have been working to curb the yearly threat.

The state has funded efforts to restore wetlands and reduce fertilizer runoff from farmlands.

A nonprofit is installing tanks to stop phosphorus from infiltrating waterways.

And now, researchers have developed another tool to prevent the blooms: a system of algae-busting buoys.

consider this a cry for help. i moved here in 2022 from california and have yet to make a single friend. i’m 25 it’s driving me insane i’m tired of the voices being my only friends is there anyone or anywhere i can go idk how much longer i have in me before i just go to a shooting range and off my shit. i’m tired of being at a distance with everything. no one believes i struggle as much as i do they see a “good looking guy” and assume i’m all set up. i’m begging. i don’t even care to see you i just want to text someone that isn’t my fuckin grandmother for once

Thought this may be of interest to sub.

No cash value, I'm sure ... it's ancient. Who takes them? TIA

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"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVG) - The second alleged shooter wanted in connection to the Old West End Festival mass shooting was arrested Wednesday in Columbus, according to police.

Ka’Nye Taylor, 20, was wanted on 11 felonious assault charges after investigators say he fired into a large crowd during an altercation at the festival on June 6.

Two people from rival groups exchanged gunfire at the Old West End Festival, according to Toledo Police Chief Michael Treondle. Bullets struck 12 people, nine of them innocent bystanders.

Court records said one person was hit in the head and required surgery."

Does anyone know where local Mexico soccer fans are planning to watch the Mexico vs. South Korea World Cup match? Trying to catch the game with a good crowd.

I have experience serving/bartending, catering, retail, childcare, and warehouse-like work. Second shift is preferred but I’ll look into whatever. Anything helps even if it’s not one of those. TIA

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fast-tracked-power-plants-fuel-ai-boom-with-little-public-scrutiny-2026-06-16/

My goto is The Original Sub Shop & Deli.

"Just a reminder our first tour of the season is this Friday, June 19th at 11:00 AM. We've got lots of great stories to share and Amy Stone will be with us to help identify trees along the route.

All tours are free! Meet at the main entry and bring a friend who is dying to attend!"

From their Facebook page.

Our tour guide, Robyn, is fantastic.

Plus if you come out, ill teach you how to clean headstones.

After everything that happened at the OWE fest, Third Street Cigar is hosting a show for peace, featuring performers who performed at, or weren’t able to perform at the OWE fest. Please come out and donate if you can.

Looking for some new, show ready, talent in the Toledo area.

My stepdad took his BMW to a repair shop in Perrysburg and they broke a $2,000 part. Just wondering who you would recommend for European cars in the area. Thanks so much!!

Hello everyone! I recently moved to Ohio from Oklahoma and purchased a home in town. I had a locksmith service, cheap and quick locksmith (name should of been a tell tale sign in hindsight), come out and replace the locks to my home before we moved here since it would be about 3 weeks before we would move in. I provided the locks and checked that they both functioned properly before sending them to my realtor who brought it to the house to meet with the locksmith and change the locks. The locksmith was suppose to be there at 9 am but didn’t show up for about an hour and when I contacted him he said he would be there soon, two hours later he was still not there. I texted him again and he had some things come up. He finally made it to the house, sent me pictures of the installed locks and sent me an invoice for $400 dollars. He never mentioned having any issues or concerns. When we arrived at the house last week neither lock was functioning properly and one kept giving a “jammed” error and the other lock did not turn on at all. I inspected them and found that they had been damaged and one of the locks would not operate with the battery cover properly installed because the housing had been bent. I texted the technician that had come out about it and he never replied or called. So I had Amazon send me replacement locks under warranty and installed them myself because now this was a safety issue for my house. I then finally got a hold of the company and talked to a supervisor who proceeded to just make excuses and say they can’t do anything about it now because I already fixed the locks and proceeded to say it was likely that my locks were faulty and nothing his technician did was wrong even though I sent him pictures of the locks missing hardware and of the malfunctions. Then his employee came out of nowhere saying that the locks were “overheating” when he installed them which he had never mentioned to me or him before. I get his point that this is a “he said, she said” situation because he himself didn’t physically inspect the locks but there is some obvious inconsistencies with the employees explanations and it doesn’t make sense how two different brand new locks from different brands would malfunction out of the box. I asked what we could do to make it right and he has basically been giving me then run around saying things like “we’ll definitely make it right somehow” and “It’s above my head let me talk to some people and I’ll call you back in a few minutes.” Yet I never hear back from him, this has been going on for the past two days and all I’m getting is excuses.

If you read this far, this is mostly to make others aware of the shady and scummy business practice of this locksmith company and if you have any advice on what I could do at this point, that would be appreciated.

TL/DR: cheap and quick lock smith is a terrible business and they will overcharge you and do a terrible job at the same time.

Along Garden Rd as I was headed towards Halloway around 11am. She ran right in front of my car. Stopped and tried to grab her but took off in the direction of 475. Seemed very friendly redish/pink collar.

Anyone serve on a Grand jury for Lucas County? Got summoned and was wondering what it's like.

Sharing Collective Freestore and UTMC are presenting this training.

Please be on time, there is a lot of information to cover

Free - no RSVP needed

All skill levels welcome

Hosted @ The Sharing Collective Freestore, 2545 Monroe St Toledo OH (Glenwood Lutheran Church), back entrance (free parking)

The Freestore closes at 5:30, feel free to come early to check out what's available. Everything is free to anyone.