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The Toledo Zoo is holding live releases of Monarch butterflies at 2:30 p.m.each Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday through Sept. 30. The zoo is raising the butterflies to help them repopulate. Each generation of monarchs live about two months, and every fourth generation migrates to Mexico and back. Use the arrows on the left and right to scroll through the photo gallery above.

Judith A. Snyder Verkin, a champion of recreation programs during 12 years on Perrysburg City Council and a volunteer in civic good works, died Monday in St. Luke’s Hospital. She was 80.

STRYKER, Ohio — The Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio promoted two new administrators at the jail.

Pavement restoration that closed part of Dorr Street on Thursday should be finished by Friday evening, the city transportation division said.

The next city-sponsored refuse and recycling dropoff is set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Longfellow Elementary School, 1955 W. Laskey Rd.

While most people believe snakes are a life-threatening species, Daniel Keyler feels otherwise.

The Toledo Lucas County Public Library invites area adults to take part in a book and brew.

Orbis Corp. filed a mass-layoff notice Thursday confirming a decision announced in June to close its auto parts packaging plant in Perrysburg by year’s end.

The Ottawa Hills fire station could be closed and its firefighters relocated to other stations during a six-month trial run of a plan designed to improve emergency responses.

A 17-year-old boy admitted Thursday he helped set the old Aurora Academy building ablaze last month, which left two firefighters injured.