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Dogs remain available at the Lucas County Canine Care & Control Office, 410 South Erie St., Toledo. For information, call 419-213-2800. For a complete list of available dogs, go to lucascountydogs.petfinder.com. A $100 adoption fee includes spay-neuter, a heartworm check, microchip ID, vaccinations, and a behavioral evaluation.

Isaiah “Spike” Halsey, trained in welding — his trade and life’s work — at a Toledo vocational high school, who later served on an advisory group to a regional vocational high school, died Monday at Perrysburg Commons, where he had lived the last two years. He was 90.

Ohio recorded its best-ever July for home sales last month with more than 152,000 homes sold statewide, according to new data from the Ohio Association of Realtors.

The lead attorney in a landmark western Lake Erie case told about 50 people attending a private function Wednesday night she has “real faith and confidence” the ultimate decision rendered by Senior U.S. District Judge James G. Carr — even with it now likely to come months or even a year or two later than expected — will be a turning point for addressing the lake’s chronic algal blooms.

In approving a regional water plan fashioned by the mayor, the Toledo City Council has moved Greater Toledo toward a system that is realistic and fair.

A water main break closed part of Garden Road in Springfield Township on Wednesday morning.

DETROIT — Two groups allege in a court document the U.S. Coast Guard is not as prepared as it would like people to believe it is to handle a massive oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac or other parts of northern Michigan.

ELEMENTALS

It’s Bug Fest at the Toledo Zoo and Aquarium on Saturday. Children are invited to Nature’s Neighborhood between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for a day of “bugs, bugs, and more bugs.” That means watching them, touching them, racing them, and learning plenty about them.

Toledo Bishop Daniel Thomas responded to the recent revelations of widespread clerical abuse in Pennsylvania, expressing his “anger and sorrow” in a letter to the faithful set to be distributed in parishes this weekend.