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06/27/2026

Waterville leaders are planning a $4M partial demolition of the Roche de Boeuf Bridge, transforming it into a pedestrian and bicycle crossing.

03/28/2026

Look at northwest Ohio in LIDAR.

This is the footprint of the Great Black Swamp.

It’s a broad, smooth basin surrounded by faint ridges. That landscape didn’t start as a swamp. It started as the bottom of Glacial Lake Maumee, an early version of Lake Erie.

When the water drained away, it didn’t leave hills behind. It left a flat floor.

That flat, poorly drained surface is what allowed the swamp to form.

Those faint arcs around the edges are moraines that served as old shorelines, still visible in the land. Some of today’s roads still follow them, because before drainage, they were the only dry ground.

Even now, the rivers are slow and the drainage is poor. This was the Great Black Swamp.

Source: USGS National Map Viewer (public domain) via Wikimedia Commons (GeoFAXsafety79)

11/22/2025

Tajiana Poellnitz returned to UToledo in 2024 to earn a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies, and hopes to open a nonprofit culinary readiness program for less-fortunate communities. “The vision is to provide food education, resources and opportunities where they’re scarce, helping people build sustainable futures in hopes they have the opportunity of running my chain of nonprofit restaurants directly from my training program to keep the cycle of giving back with great flavor alive.” https://myut.link/hm2

11/17/2025

UpTown Toledo is just one of many collaborative groups in the Glass City working to maintain improvements to our history!

The Toledo Design Collective is inspiring transformative growth through urban planning and thoughtful design.

11/16/2025

09/02/2025