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BY KRISTI FISH | MIRROR REPORTER — The Maumee Senior Center is this year’s recipient of the Hometown Hero Awards River Business Award, which is presented each year to a business or organization that has made a tangible, measurable difference within the Maumee community. On the award nomination forms, supporters took note …

BY KRISTI FISH | MIRROR REPORTER — Jim Richardson has spent more than a decade coaching basketball and will be recognized particularly for his time as a junior varsity coach at Maumee High School and his dedication to Maumee students when he receives a Bridge Award at the Hometown Hero Awards on …

BY KRISTI FISH | MIRROR REPORTER — With the 16th annual Acoustics for Autism just around the corner, volunteers and musicians are busy getting ready for the event that supports Project iAm families. Ninety bands will be performing on eight stages in uptown Maumee on Sunday, March 5. Megan Lesle, of The …

BY ERIC SHANTEAU | GUEST COLUMNIST — “Retired from work but not life.” This is the motto (and business card) that has been adopted and carried on and out by Mr. Joe W. Olman (aka Grandpa Joe), one of the most amazing and interesting individuals I have ever met. This is a …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Zip-lining down a mountain, camping out in the wilderness and cooking over a fire are essential to the Scouts BSA Troop 97 experience, but it’s the unscripted times like playing tag in the snow after dark, cards in a cabin and impromptu conversations that Jack Haines, …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — In more than 40 years as ticket manager for the Anthony Wayne Local Schools Athletic Department, Judy Carter has been to more sporting events than she can count – but rarely gets to see the games. On February 17, she was at center court during the …

BY KRISTI FISH | MIRROR REPORTER — Three Maumee City Schools staff members will each receive a Golden Apple Award at the Hometown Hero Awards on Thursday, March 2. Fairfield Elementary principal Michele Loboschefski, Maumee High School teacher Jamie Naragon and Fairfield school counselor Amy Johnson will each be presented with the …

BY KRISTI FISH and KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTERS— Walking through the halls of Fallen Timbers Middle School last week, Waterville Primary counselor Jillian Cowell saw several of her former students – and remembered each one by name. “Mrs. Cowell!” exclaimed one girl, running up to say hello. “How are you doing?” she …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Pointing to a large photo of the Roche de Boeuf Interurban Bridge when it was under construction in 1908, Waterville Mayor Tim Pedro smiled. In a conversation with U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Toledo) recently, she asked Pedro and Vice Mayor John Rozic to have the city …

BY MIKE McCARTHY | MIRROR EDITOR — The Maumee Police Division has reopened the cold case file of a young woman who was brutally murdered in her Maumee apartment 45 years ago. Maumee Police Det. Christopher Rutledge was assigned to the case last October, after the victim’s son, now in his mid-50s, …