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• Company Interested In Raceway Park Land

  12-09-2015 21:33
  
  A formal announcement is expected next week about a company that's interested in buying the Toledo Raceway Park property. Broadcast reports indicate a manufacturer in the automotive industry wants to snap up the former horse track.
  
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• Escape like 'Shawshank Redemption's' Andy Dufresne to Zihuatanejo, Mexico

  12-09-2015 17:19
  
  It was to Zihuatanejo's bright shores that wrongly convicted prisoner Andy Dufresne dreamed of escape in the 1994 movie "The Shawshank Redemption." As I floated, suspended in the turquoise surf in the bay of Playa la Ropa, a flock of pelicans drifting overhead, I could understand why.
  
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• Mowers level flowers by zoo

  12-09-2015 16:14
  
  Toledo city workers cut down the field of wildflowers, which officials said was unattractive, in the Anthony Wayne Trail median by the Toledo Zoo. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER It was off with their heads, those gangly wildflowers in the Anthony Wayne Trail's median near the Toledo Zoo.
  
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• A celebration of the Jewish new year

  12-09-2015 12:08
  
  Rabbi Evan Rubin of Congregation Etz Chayim in Toledo demonstrates a shofar made from a goat's horn. THE BLADE/JETTA FRASER pple slices dipped into honey.
  
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• Mixed-use design proposed for Southwyck

  12-09-2015 07:55
  
  The 58.5-acre site of the former Southwyck Shopping Center in South Toledo could become a mixed-used development with office, retail and "flex" buildings for high tech or warehouse use and possibly even market-rate apartments, under a preliminary plan disclosed today. Industrial Developers Ltd., of Northwood, a firm hired by the city of Toledo to create a new vision for the razed mall site on Reynolds Road, told The Blade that, if its ideas bear fruit, within a five-year period the Southwyck sit
  
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• 9-11 Remembrances Planned Today

  12-09-2015 03:33
  
  Events are planned across northwest Ohio to mark the anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The Wall of Remembrance is on display at Ottawa Hills Memorial Park and the American Red Cross is holding blood drives across the region.
  
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