Browse past news stories for Whitmer High School in Toledo, OH.

• Washington Township trustee had been principal, coach (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 12:39:33 pm
  James F. Mohn, 78, a retired administrator in the Washington Local Schools and a longtime Washington Township trustee, died Friday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, South Detroit Avenue, from complications of refractory anemia. He was a longtime resident of the Shoreland area of the township. He lived the last nine years in South Toledo with companion Louise Spitulski. He ran unsuccessfully for ...
• Girls mega basketball scrimmage set (Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 03:57:34 pm
  Twenty high school varsity girls basketball teams will have the opportunity to compete against some of the best high schools from around the region as part of the second annual Express Girls High School Mega Scrimmage hosted by Owens Community College today from 5-10 p.m. Admission is $2 per person. Varsity girls basketball teams competing in the Express Girls High School Mega Scrimmage include ...
• Ex-Whitmer English teacher was a jazz lover (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 12:24:45 pm
  Andrew A. High, Jr., a retired Whitmer High School teacher who loved jazz and Shakespeare, died in his West Toledo home Tuesday of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 78. Mr. High taught English at Whitmer for 18 years before retiring on disability in the early 1980s because of Parkinson’s. He especially enjoyed teaching Shakespeare and acting as adviser to the school’s Jazz Club. He ...
• Multi-vehicle crash near Whitmer has minor injuries (WTOL 11 Toledo)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:36:48 pm
  A four-car crash took place at Alexis Rd. and Clegg Dr. around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, just outside Whitmer High School.
• Rangers fall short in first-ever playoff game (The Morning Journal)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 09:14:54 am
  TOLEDO — North Ridgeville’s historical football season came to an abrupt end.
• High school football, hockey, NFL (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 10:21:58 am
  HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Final Ohio AP poll DIVISION I 1, Cle. St. Ignatius (29) 10-0 290 2, Dublin Coffman 10-0 229 3, Solon 10-0 205 4, Cin. St. Xavier 8-2 190 5, Cin. Moeller 9-1 158 6, Cle. Glenville 9-1 129 7, Cin. Anderson 10-0 117 8, Whitmer 9-1 81 9, Hilliard Davidson 8-1 77 10, Mayfield 9-1 35 Others receiving 12 or more points: 10, Cin. Elder 35. 12, Pickerington Cent. 13. DIVISION II 1 ...
• Drug-free vigil Tuesday night at Whitmer (NBC 24 Toledo)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 09:55:41 pm
  Candle Light Walk to promote drug-free lifestyles at Whitmer High School.
• Whitmer candlelight walk (NBC 24 Toledo)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 02:11:03 am
  This Tuesday, Washington Local schools will hold their 20th annual candlelight walk at Whitmer High School.
• MI woman dies after giving birth (WTVG-TV Toledo)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 10:57:04 am
  The doctors believe she had an amniotic fluid embolism
• Michigan incentive produces lights, cameras, jobs (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on September 20, 2009 at 11:20:09 am
  By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE BLADE BUSINESS WRITER From makeup-wearing armed insurgents roaming metro Detroit to a $146 million studio being built 50 miles north of Toledo, motion pictures are recasting Michigan's devastated economic landscape. And in doing so, an industry that once made its home almost exclusively in sunny Southern California is now bringing hundreds of well-paying - although often ...
• Bell pushes fairness, reputation for dependability in mayoral bid (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on August 24, 2009 at 11:05:15 am
  By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER Mike Bell's first job after college: brakeman on the railroad, a job he did for about seven years before his father persuaded him to apply for a job on the Toledo Fire Department. Had he stayed with the railroad or followed a college dream to work in a national park out west, Mike Bell might well have been one of many Toledo youths who moved out to find their ...
• Toledoan realized a dream (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on August 9, 2009 at 11:18:21 am
  In Their Words is a weekly feature appearing Sundays in The Blade's Sports section. Blade sports writer John Wagner talked with Ron Rightnowar, a Toledo native who graduated from Whitmer High School in 1982. He played college baseball at Eastern Michigan University before signing as a free agent with Detroit. Eventually he spent four seasons with the Mud Hens, posting a 10-10 record with 13 ...
• O STREET PIMP MY BLOG: A jersey at a wedding? (Detroit Free Press)
  posted on August 7, 2009 at 12:54:14 pm
  This is the fifth of seven blog entries to run this week that were written by guest bloggers. Oneita Big Mouth issued a challenge, and readers met it.
• Last hurrah for many prep football players (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on July 17, 2009 at 11:04:59 am
  For most of the players who will run on the field at 7:30 tonight at Whitmer High School for the 19th annual Perrysburg regional all-star football game, this is it. It's the fourth quarter of their football lives; the final countdown for strapping on the helmets and slipping on the shoulder pads. Understanding this is the end of the road for most of the 70-plus players, the game's outcome will ...
• Whitmer students put up a pavilion at Trilby Park (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 03:24:48 pm
  Visitors to Toledo's Trilby Park have a new pavilion available for picnics or other events thanks to two construction classes at nearby Whitmer High School. A team of juniors finished up the structure's siding last week, pinch-hitting for their senior counterparts who were kept from completing the project by wet weather. But not being able to finish construction was only a minor disappointment ...
• Businessman adds hat to council race (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 10:11:46 am
  Republican Mark Clark, a restaurant owner and independent contractor of commercial real estate, is the newest candidate in the race for Toledo City Council's six at-large seats. Mr. Clark, 51, announced his candidacy yesterday after filing his petitions to appear on the September primary ballot. "I was tired of sitting on the sidelines and watching our city crumble, so I decided to step up and ...
• Hayes hires new principal (Delaware Gazette)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 08:23:43 pm
  Delaware City Schools on Friday announced the selection of a Toledo-area school district’s curriculum director as the next principal at Hayes High School.
• Volunteer efforts never falter in saluting veterans (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 10:08:15 am
  Before the Memorial Day parades and picnics, volunteers walk with respect and reverence through acres of cemeteries, maps in hand. Matching names on paper to those etched on tombstones, they place American flags on graves of veterans, some 50,000 in Lucas County alone. Although the number of veteran volunteers has dwindled and the number of deceased veterans has increased, the annual Stars and ...
• Remembering veterans (FOX Toledo)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 12:36:41 am
  About 30 Whitmer High School students spent a good chunk of their day Thursday volunteering outside, preparing for Memorial Day.
• Do Toledo gangs feel they own the streets? (WTOL 11 Toledo)
  posted on May 16, 2009 at 03:04:17 am
  It's a question on the minds of many due to the recent layoffs of 75 Toledo police officers.
• Campus notes: Whitmer graduate captures rookie of the week honor (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on April 29, 2009 at 03:45:09 pm
  Whitmer High School graduate Courtney Siebenaller captured her third straight Atlantic 10 Conference rookie of the week honor on April 13. Siebenaller, who is a freshman at the University of Dayton, earned the latest award after tying her second-best effort of the season in the pole vault on April 11 at the Miami Invitational. Siebenaller cleared a height of 12-01.50 to finish first in the ...
• How do Newark's schools compare? (Newark Advocate)
  posted on April 26, 2009 at 11:10:57 am
  NEWARK -- Newark's school district ranks near the bottom in a number of community financial measures when compared with similar school districts around Ohio, an Advocate analysis showed.
• Talk Back April 20 (FOX Toledo)
  posted on April 21, 2009 at 04:17:20 am
  Toledo mayoral candidate and Whitmer High School senior, 17-year-old Clint White, talks about how he plans to bring jobs back to the city if he is elected to the city's top post this fall in this edition of FOX Toledo's Talk Back.
• Teen sets run for Toledo mayor (FOX Toledo)
  posted on April 18, 2009 at 03:47:23 am
  Whitmer High School 17-year-old senior Clint White is adding campaigning to his list of concerns - and it's not for student government. He wants to be Toledo's next mayor.
• Obscure Toledo mayoral aspirants aim high (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on March 30, 2009 at 09:18:37 am
  Donald Watras muscles up fallen tombstones by day, and in his spare time collects signatures to be on the Sept. 15 primary ballot for mayor of Toledo. It's not clear which is more difficult. "The problem is getting people to sign that thing. They want to hear your whole life story," said Mr. Watras, who works in the city-owned cemeteries. Mr. Watras, 47, of 282 Majestic Dr., is one of a group of ...
• Teacher, superintendent cherished role as mentor (The Toledo Blade)
  posted on February 22, 2009 at 10:07:15 am
  Michael Carmean, 59, an educator for 36 years who retired in 2007 after 13 years as superintendent of the Washington Local Schools, died Friday in his West Toledo home from complications of scleroderma, a connective tissue disease. "He worked up until he couldn't any more," his daughter, Megan, said. "He loved what he did. He loved the kids and the people he worked with. He never complained ...