Tom Henry

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

RIDGEVILLE CORNERS, Ohio — Tiny Ridgeville Corners, an unincorporated community of less than 300 people, is getting a big investment from a company that sells steel racks for land-based solar panels nationally. APA Solar, a family-owned business that was created in this part of northwest Ohio’s Henry County in 2008, plans to move into a modern 30,000-square-foot national headquarters here in early 2026.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

Climate change has become a stronger force in the fight against western Lake Erie algal blooms, one of northwest Ohio’s leading scientists said Monday during a luncheon speech to the Rotary Club of Toledo. But George Bullerjahn, a Bowling Green State University emeritus professor and founder of the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health that was moved to the University of Michigan in 2024, said it’s not time for despair.

2 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

DEFIANCE — The House Republican plan to impose nearly a 45 percent cut on fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s trademark effort to improve water quality across Ohio stunned participants of a Lake Erie conference in Ohio on Thursday, including a business-environment foundation executive who called it “devastating.”One person who chose his words carefully was keynote speaker Chris Winslow, Ohio Sea Grant and Ohio State University Stone Laboratory director.

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

MAKE THEM DANCEJohnny Rawls. Catfood Records. First, a word about what this album isn’t: It’s not, as the title might suggest, a stereotypical toe-tappin’, get-up-and-go, veritable house party collection of high-spirited bubblegum dance tunes. Sure, some of the music is dance-worthy, as many soulful ballads are - at least for slow dances and casual grooves. But, on the whole, this isn’t the disc for a swing-your-partner and get-busy-with-your-dance-moves vibe.

3 weeks ago | toledoblade.com | Tom Henry

Dozens of people gathered inside the University of Toledo’s Savage Arena on Wednesday, not to marvel at yet another feat of athleticism but to celebrate UT’s achievement in reaching the upper echelon of academics and research. The occasion for the celebration was the university’s recent designation as an R1 university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.