 Mechanics from Whitmer join elite search for 'bugs'
Two-student teams from 10 Ohio schools, including Whitmer's Career and Technology Center, were at the Perrysburg Township campus for the Ford-AAA Auto Skills State Competition.
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2012-05-12: Toledo Blade - Whitmer, Notre Dame grab wins
There were no real surprises Friday night as the Whitmer boys and Notre Dame girls rolled to team titles in the inaugural Three Rivers Athletic Conference track and field championship meet at Whitmer Memorial Stadium.
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2012-05-11: NorthWestOhio.com - Junior high math whizzes test skills at UT Engineering Day
Washington Local Schools' accelerated math students tested their mental strength in a weight-bearing bridge building contest for University of Toledo's High School Engineering Day.
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2012-05-06: Toledo Blade - 'Olympics' let special-needs students shine
Washington Local system offers day of athletics, just hanging out
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2012-05-06: Toledo Blade - Infinite Opportunity Olympic Games
Washington Local Schools (WLS) is holding its first Infinite Opportunity Olympics at Whitmer High School's Memorial Stadium in Toledo, Ohio on May 5, 2012. In the games, WLS students with disabilities compete against each other in track and field events. Members of the Whitmer High School Girls' Track team are paired with the participants to serves as guides/mentors/coaches and to assist on wheelchair events.
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2012-05-01: 13ABC - Whitmer-Central "Survivor" Baseball Game on May 2nd
Whitmer High School Baseball team, in conjunction with Central Catholic High School Baseball, will host its second annual "Survivor Game" on Wednesday, May 2nd at Whitmer High School.
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2012-04-26: Toledo Blade - Panthers a big surprise
The Whitmer softball team vowed to turn it around in 2012. With seven returning starters from a team that dropped 18 games, the upstart Panthers have positioned themselves at the top of the Three Rivers Athletic Conference. Picked to finish sixth, Whitmer (12-5 overall, 9-1 TRAC) is turning heads and opening eyes.
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2012-04-23: 13ABC - Whitmer vs. 13abc All Stars
Video of Newscast
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2012-04-22: Toledo Blade - Whitmer anxious for OHSAA findings
Representatives of the school are scheduled to meet with Ohio High School Athletic Association officials May 23 in Columbus to learn the findings of an nine-month probe centered on, but not limited to, suspicious transfers into Washington Local Schools district.
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2012-04-21: 13ABC - Whitmer student spends spring break chasing storms
Video of newscast
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2012-04-13: Toledo Blade - Whitmer grad Smith to be Purdue assistant
Whitmer graduate and Purdue senior guard Ryne Smith will remain with the Boilermakers as a student assistant coach next season. He will help coach Matt Painter as his class schedule allows.
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2012-03-24: Toledo Blade - Whitmer falls short in attempt to win school's first state title
Toledo's poor fate in state boys basketball finals continued Saturday night as the fifth-ranked Whitmer Panthers came agonizingly close to their first Ohio championship, in any sport, only to fall 45-40 to fourth-ranked Pickerington Central in the Division I title game before a crowd of 9,600 at Value City Arena.
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2012-03-24: ColumbusLocalNews.com - Saturday boys basketball action: Pickerington Central 45, Toledo Whitmer 40
After a day of state finals, when the Division I boys basketball state championship game tipped off at 8:34 p.m. Saturday, March 24, in Ohio State University’s Value City Arena, there were only two Ohio high school teams still playing.
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2012-03-23: Toledo Blade - Whitmer holds on, will vie for state title
The fifth-ranked Whitmer Panthers jumped out to a 22-2 lead midway in the second quarter, but then had to hold off a furious second-half comeback bid from Lakewood St. Edward Friday night to take a 62-51 victory in a Division I boys state basketball semifinal played before a crowd of 9,853 at Value City Arena.
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2012-03-23: Toledo Blade - Whitmer boys basketball team gets cheering sendoff
Students from across the Washington Local Schools system lined Alexis Road on Friday morning to cheer the Whitmer High School boys basketball team as it boarded a bus bound for the state tournament in Columbus.
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2012-03-23: Cleveland.com - OHSAA boys basketball: St. Edward falls to Toledo Whitmer in Division I state semifinal
Despite playing at a decided height disadvantage and despite putting together a valiant effort in the second half, they ended up losing, 62-51, in a Division I state semifinal in Value City Arena.
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2012-03-23: advertiser-tribune.com - Whitmer knocks off St. Ed’s, moves into D-I title game
The first of the two-part challenge was completed Friday with a 62-51 win over Lakewood St. Edward in a Division I state semifinal at Value City Arena.<br />
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2012-03-22: Columbus Dispatch - High-school: Tournament preview
This might be the most evenly matched field in the tournament. Winner of 42 of its past 46 games, Toledo Whitmer has one of the stingiest defenses in Ohio...
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2012-03-21: Toledo Blade - Whitmer, St. Edward face off once again
The last time Whitmer and Lakewood St. Edward were in the Division I state boys basketball semifinals, they had one thing in common -- they each lost to eventual 2008 state champion Newark.
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2012-03-21: NorthWestOhio.com - Another Final Four for Whitmer
It's been a pretty good year for the Whitmer High School athletic department.
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2012-03-17: Toledo Blade - Whitmer overwhelms Medina in 2nd half
For the second time in five seasons, the Whitmer Panthers are headed to the Division I boys state basketball semifinals.<br />
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2012-03-17: Ohio.com - Division I regional/Toledo Whitmer 51, Medina 39: Bees’ postseason run stopped
Medina's Logan Winkler (right) fights for a loose ball with Toledo Whitmer's Ricardo Smith during first-half action in their Division I Regional final high school basketball game Saturday at the University of Akron.
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2012-03-15: Cleveland.com - OHSAA boys basketball: Scouting today's Division I and Division II regional semifinal games
The schools are proof of the unpredictability of high school tournament basketball and how dreams turn into reality.
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2012-03-14: Toledo Blade - Whitmer clamps down on Truckers to advance
Whitmer is one win away from reaching a Division I boys basketball state semifinal for the second time in five seasons, and advancing to Saturday's regional final had everything to do its large and mobile defense.
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2012-03-11: 13ABC.com - Whitmer knocks off Southview for district title
The Panthers win 44-24.
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2012-03-11: 13ABC.com - Whitmer beats St. John's 43-38 and advances to district finals
LeRoy Alexander scores 14 points for Whitmer.
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2012-03-10: Toledo Blade - Ohio plan would hurt TPS rating
Not everyone loses in the new system. Washington Local Schools was ranked effective last year, the equivalent of a B and a step below Ottawa Hills. Under the new scale, both share the B grade. Although Ottawa Hills has angst about some of the metrics, Washington Local saw much to like
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2012-03-09: New York Times - YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool
Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.
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2012-03-08: Toledo Blade - Panthers, Titans meet again in semifinal
Whitmer and St. John's Jesuit will tip off for a third time this season when they meet Thursday night in a Division I district semifinal at University of Toledo's Savage Arena.
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2012-03-04: 13ABC.com - Whitmer HS student chases Kentucky twisters
One local storm chaser was in Kentucky Friday when deadly storms swept through the region. Brandon Copic, a senior at Whtmer High School, has been chasing storms for three years.
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2012-02-29: Toledo Blade - New book has subtle anti-bullying message for youngsters
Mr. Rokicki, a graduate of Whitmer High School, and Mr. Kelley, a Michigan native, teamed up after learning that Mr. Kelley's 11-year-old nephew was being bullied. The two read from their book to first and third graders at Leverette.
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2012-02-29: Toledo Blade - Freshman workhorse develops skills at Owens - Whitmer grad carves out important role
What that means is Lindsey, a freshman guard/forward from Whitmer High School, sacrifices his body to corral loose balls, draws charges, and plays strong defense
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2012-02-28: Toledo Blade - Whitmer, Wauseon, L-B, Maumee Valley claim Blade polls
The final Blade boys basketball poll for the 2011-12 season is out and three of four titles were collected by league champions. <br />
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2012-02-28: Toledo Blade - LEGAL NOTICE
Sealed bids will be addressed to and received at the office of: David Bringman, Business Manager, Washington Local Schools, 3505 W. Lincolnshire Blvd., Toledo, Ohio 43606, until 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 for furnishing the materials and performing the labor for the execution and construction
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2012-02-25: Toledo Blade - Panthers top Ross to claim 1st crown in TRAC
Just as the Panthers closed out their existence in the City League a year ago by celebrating a league championship, Whitmer maintained its celebratory ways.
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2012-02-22: 13ABC.com - St. Johns hockey beats Whitmer
Titans move on in the OHSAA state hockey tournament
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2012-02-18: Toledo Blade - Whitmer turns up intensity to topple Central
Outhustled and outplayed on their home court five weeks earlier by Central Catholic, the Whitmer Panthers were bound and determined to not let that happen again in Friday night's Three Rivers Athletic Conference basketball showdown.
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2012-02-07: Best of Toledo 2011
Whitmer High School is the largest high school in the Toledo area but that’s not what makes it the best. The achievements of its students have won this accolade. With legendary Panther alumni including actress Adrianne Palicki, wrestling champion Greg Wojciechowski and the current United States Deputy Secretary of Energy, Daniel Poneman, Whitmer has sent Toledo’s best and brightest, since 1924.
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2012-02-02: NorthwestOhio.com - Whitmer teen killed in crash, classmates plan tribute
Just hours after a 17-year-old Whitmer High School student was killed in a crash, Wednesday afternoon, friends and classmates took to Facebook to organize a tribute.
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2012-02-02: 13ABC.com - Vigil to remember Whitmer student killed in crash
Students held a vigil on February 2nd to remember a classmate who was killed in a car accident. 17-year-old Abi Perkins died during a crash near Alexis and Winona Drive. She was a senior at Whitmer High School. The school had counselors on hand as the Washington Local community deals with the loss.
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2012-02-01: NorthWestOhio.com - Signing Day 2012
Whitmer high school had an incredible day with seven teammates from the football team signing to play at the next level. Five of them going to Division I schools, three to the Big 10.
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2012-02-01: 13ABC.com - Student Dies in Crash
Whitmer High School students gathered tonight for a vigil to remember a fellow student killed in a horrific lunchtime car crash.
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2012-01-29: Toledo Blade - Area illustrator sells his work to Lucasfilm, Disney, DC Comics
It’s a saga that begins long ago but not so far away in his junior year in Whitmer High School with a three-hour commercial art block in the vocational arts program.
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2012-01-28: FoxToledo.com - Area teams drive towards championships
In the Three Rivers Athletic League, three teams were tied at the top heading into the night. A fourth was just a game back. Whitmer, Central Catholic and St. John's were all in action trying to say atop the TRAC heap.
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2012-01-25: Toledo Blade - St. John's helps jumble up title race
After one half of solid basketball played with a steady flow, Tuesday night's Three Rivers Athletic Conference battle between Whitmer and host St. John's Jesuit turned into a physical and mental battle of wills in the third quarter.
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2012-01-25: Toledo Blade - Prep basketball: St. John's vs. Whitmer
Toledo Blade Photo gallery from the St. John's vs. Whitmer Basketball game.
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2012-01-24: KHASTtv.com - Grand Island QB makes recruiting decision
Signing day for the new class of college recruits is quickly approaching. It happens February 1st. The latest commit for the Huskers is LeRoy Alexander of Toledo Whitmer high school, listed as an athlete as a running back or defensive back.
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2012-01-23: Toledo Blade - Alexander, Meyers headed to Big Ten
5 Whitmer seniors now have commitments to Division I programs
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2012-01-23: MLive.com - Michigan State football recruiting: Spartans add Ohio defensive back, Oregon D-lineman
Over the last two days, Michigan State received verbal commitments from two players — Toledo, Ohio defensive back Mark Meyers and Portland, Ore., defensive lineman David Fennell — bringing its total to 16 nine days before the signing day.
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2012-01-22: HuskerExtra.com - Toledo star gives NU verbal commitment
The 6-foot-1, 188-pound Alexander is listed as an "athlete" by the recruiting websites. During his senior year, he played mostly running back on offense and was a fulltime cornerback on defense for Whitmer High School after transferring there before this past fall.
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2012-01-22: HuskerCorner.com - Alexander Is No. 12
Toledo, Ohio, Whitmer High School athlete, LeRoy Alexander visited Lincoln this weekend. He showed up on campus with one scholarship offer in his pocket from his home town Toledo Rockets. He received another one while in Lincoln.
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2012-01-19: Toledo Blade - Whitmer selects Bell
Whitmer has hired Jerry Bell as its head football coach.
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2012-01-18: WTOL - Whitmer to name new head football coach
Whitmer High School's next head football coach is expected to be announced after the Washington Local Schools school board meeting at 6 p.m. this evening.
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2012-01-18: Toledo Blade - Whitmer's Webb commits to UT
Whitmer senior running back Jody Webb has verbally committed to the University of Toledo, becoming the third member of Whitmer's state semifinal team to announce his intentions to stay home and play
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2012-01-18: Toledo Blade - Whitmer grad Bell school's new football coach
Whitmer announced the hiring of new football coach Jerry Bell on Wednesday morning. Bell was offensive line coach under former coach Joe Palka and is a 1991 Whitmer graduate.
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2012-01-18: Toledo Blade - Washington school board elects officers
The Washington Local Board of Education elected David Hunter president and John Adler vice president at its organizational meeting last week. Treasurer Jeff Fouke administered the oath of office. The other board members are Frank Erme. Thomas Ilstrup, and Steve Zuber.
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2012-01-17: Toledo Blade - Washington Schools teacher dies in accident
A Washington Local Schools elementary teacher was killed in a weekend snowmobile accident on a trail in northern Michigan’s Cheboygan County, authorities said.
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2012-01-17: Toledo Blade - Toledoans lift voices to echo King's message
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message of hope and promise that soared through the University of Toledo's Savage Arena Monday carried through not just in the usual speeches of prominent dignitaries, but ascended on the voices of the city's African-American youths.
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2012-01-17: NorthWestOhio.com - Local school district mourns teacher's death
Candy Budd-Crowley, a teacher in the Washington Local School district, was killed in a snowmobile accident in Michigan Saturday evening.
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2012-01-17: FoxToledo.com - Area teacher dies in Michigan snowmobile accident
Washington Local Schools are mourning the loss of popular elementary teacher and seventh grade girls basketball coach Candy Budd-Crowley, who as killed in a weekend snowmobile accident in Michigan's Cheboygan County.
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2012-01-16: 13 ABC News - Local teacher killed in snowmobile accident
A physical education teacher from the Washington local school district was Killed in a tragic weekend accident in Michigan's upper peninsula.
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2012-01-15: Toledo Blade - 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr., Unity Celebration
Brieyon McBride, 17, a junior at Whitmer High School, performs an original composition called "Wakeup."
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2012-01-10: WTOL - Whitmer tops first Blade basketball poll
Just as they did in football, Whitmer leads the first Blade High School Basketball poll of the season. The 9-0 Panthers topped TRAC rivals St. John’s and Central Catholic for the coveted top spot.
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2012-01-10: WTOL - One-stop shopping for community services at Whitmer event
Washington Local Schools will hold a Community Resource Fair on Tuesday, January 10.
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2012-01-10: Toledo Blade: Whitmer's boys top first Blade poll
Whitmer's boys and Northview's girls highlight the list of No. 1 teams as the Division I leaders in the season's first Blade high school basketball poll.
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2012-01-06: Toledo Blade - Irish slip past Panthers 42-41
Whitmer climbed all the way up the comeback ladder in their Three Rivers Athletic Conference girls basketball contest at Central Catholic Thursday night
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2012-01-01: Toledo Blade - Whitmer football story, St. Francis hockey top list
State champions and runners-up highlighted the high school sports front in 2011.
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2011-12-30: Toledo Blade - Big 2nd half lifts Panthers to win
Undefeated Whitmer crushed Northview in the second half to roll to a 57-36 victory Friday night in boys basketball.
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2011-12-20: WTOL - Whitmer Head Football coach resigns
Whitmer Head Football Coach Joe Palka confirmed to T Sports he has resigned as head football coach of the Whitmer Panthers.
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2011-12-20: Toledo Blade: Whitmer football coach leaves for new job
At Whitmer, Joe Palka had everything a high school football coach could ask for — state-of-the art facilities, extraordinary talent, and a community that’s passionate about its team.
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2011-12-20: NorthwestOhio.com - Whitmer head football coach resigns, moves to Mich.
Whitmer High School's head football coach, Joe Palka, announced his resignation and plans to take a position in Saline, Mich. early Tuesday afternoon.
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2011-12-20: AnnArbor.com - Saline hires football coach Joe Palka from Ohio powerhouse
Saline High School announced today the hiring of Joe Palka as its varsity football coach. He takes over for Mike Glennie, who resigned in late November, according to athletic director Rob White.
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2011-12-20: 13ABC - Whitmer's Palka resigns; takes Saline job
13abc Action News has learned that Whitmer High School head football coach Joe Palka has resigned. He will be named the new head coach, assistant principal and assistant athletic director at Saline High School in Saline, Michigan.
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2011-12-18: Toledo Blade - Alexander case has big OHSAA ramifications
Governing body wants to maintain eligibility power
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2011-12-16: Toledo Blade - Whitmer 65, Findlay 38
Findlay--After leading by a single point at the end of the first quarter, the Panthers dominated the second by a 17-6 count and cruised the rest of the way to remain undefeated.
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2011-12-09: Toledo Blade - Size proves key to lift Whitmer over St. John's
Many basketball games have crucial turning points that ultimately decide the outcome.
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2011-12-08: Toledo Blade - Whitmer's Meyers to play for UT
Well known for his talents on the football field, Whitmer safety Mark Meyers knew he had to put in the extra time academically in order to fulfill his dream of playing Division I college football.
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2011-11-29: Toledo Blade - Whitmer lands 4 on All-Ohio D-I first team
Four Whitmer seniors were selected to the first team of the Associated Press Division I All-Ohio football team, including defensive end Chris Wormley, who was named as co-defensive player of the year
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2011-11-29: Toledo Blade - Return on investment
It would be unrealistic to expect Chrysler Group LLC to invest more than $500 million in expanding its Toledo assembly plant, creating more than 1,100 jobs, without getting something in return.
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2011-11-27: Toledo Blade - Turnovers cost Whitmer shot at state championship
The best season in Whitmer High School's football history met with a difficult ending Saturday night.
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2011-11-25: Toledo Blade - Whitmer aiming for title game
When it comes to postseason football championships, no Ohio high school compares to Cleveland St. Ignatius, and no head coach compares to the Wildcats' Chuck Kyle.
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2011-11-24: Toledo Blade - Whitmer's Wormley stands above all
Whitmer's Chris Wormley, intimidating force on the field, is player of the year
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2011-11-24: Toledo Blade - Washington Local OKs selling part of Trilby site
Board of Education approves sale of partial property
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2011-11-23: WTOL 11 - Old Trilby School site sold to developers
Washington Local Schools has sold part of the land that used to be the location of Trilby Elementary School on Secor Road.
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2011-11-22: Toledo Blade - OK near on cutting Chrysler plant taxes
A deal to reduce Chrysler Group LLC’s property taxes on its Toledo Assembly complex — costing the city and two school districts about $1.5 million a year among them.
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2011-11-19: Toledo Blade - Whitmer routs Wadsworth, heads to state semifinal
Recap of Whitmer vs. Wadsworth football playoff game in Sandusky
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2011-11-18: Toledo Blade - Scoreboard 11-18
2011 Football All District Team |
