Mike Sigov

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Mike Sigov

U.S. Navy Air Corps aircrewman Barry Bidwell was on a A-3 Skywarrior on a combat mission when the plane went down June 18, 1971 in South China Sea, just off the coast of Vietnam, near the city of Danang. The body of the 23-year-old Navy Air Corps flight crewman from upstate New York, the bodies of other crew members, and the plane wreckage were never recovered.

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Mike Sigov

Memorial Day came early to Perrysburg this weekend as hundreds of people from across the United States and Canada participated in the re-enactment of a 1813 siege of Fort Meigs. “I think it is a good time to remember the people who fought and died for our country and who are buried here,” said Jonathan Birkenbach of Paw Paw, Mich., noting that he had visited every Fort Meigs re-enactment since he can remember himself.

1 week ago | toledoblade.com | Mike Sigov

Grover Wallace Cummings, one of the Midwest’s first Black photojournalists, who was a former Blade photographer and an Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War era, died May 14 at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He was 82. He died after two years on dialysis, his son, Wade Harrison, said. Trained as a photographer while serving in the Air Force in the early 1960s, Mr. Cummings was a photographer at The Blade from the mid-1960s through at least 1977.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Mike Sigov

Ushers at the Toledo Zoo media event Thursday wore tuxedos, to better highlight the importance of the occasion. African penguins Toby, 16, a female, and Boo, 6, a male, greeted visitors at the zoo’s Malawi Event Center, where officials announced the zoo’s 125th-anniversary entertainment program planned for the Memorial Day weekend. The program will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Mike Sigov

They spoke of the need to increase transparency, accountability, and public participation. The seven recall candidates who intend to run for Maumee City Council and mayor in the September recall election met with the public Wednesday, pitching their platforms and positions at the Lucas County Fairgrounds. “The biggest thing is really not just transparency but accountability of the city in general, and not even just the city council, but everyone,” said Chelsea Ziss of Maumee.