CLOSING SHOT: Photos of the Week for more than five years
All dressed up for the festival
Jasmin Tropf and her 5-year-old son, Jensen, right, and 2-year-old son, Janos, cross Consaul Street to make it to the opening ceremony of the Birmingham Ethnic Festival in East Toledo on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026. KURT STEISS
Shell we take a walk?
Tim Miller takes his 4-year-old sulcata tortoise, Bowzer, on a walk along North Main Street in Bowling Green. REBECCA BENSON
Broken bat
Bennett Lee, catcher for the Toledo Mud Hens, shatters his bat during an International League game against the Louisville Bats at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo. ALEX BRACKEN
Smoky haze over the Maumee River
A man rides a Segway as smoke from the Canadian wildfires blankets the sky Thursday, July 16, 2026, at Middlegrounds Metropark in Toledo.
Having fun before the show
Kids play as they wait for the City of Maumee and Perrysburg fireworks at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg on Friday, July 3, 2026. REBECCA BENSON
Raising funds for Epilepsy Center
From left, Rebecca Bennett, Nate Wishard, Angela Singler, and Scott Hayes of the Oregon Economic Development Foundation team participate in The Epilepsy Center of Northwest Ohio annual fundraising event, Practically Golf. JEREMY WADSWORTH