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May 13, 2026

CLOSING SHOT: Photos of the Week for more than five years

Blade photographers’ work, displayed each week next to the first-floor elevator | Click on each picture for an enlarged image

Biggest Week in American Birding

At center, Rich Ernst of upstate New York helps his daughter Michelle, 7, spot a Blackburnian Warbler during the first day of the Biggest Week in American Birding Friday, May 8, 2026, at Magee Marsh in Oak Harbor. JEREMY WADSWORTH

UT grad celebrates

Jill Kromer, a former Rocksy mascot, center, graduates with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education during the morning spring undergraduate commencement ceremony at the University of Toledo’s Savage Arena. The Blade/Kurt Steiss

Crackdown on illegal street riding

Ohio State Highway Patrol make an arrest after engaging in a chase with the impaired driver on his dirt bike along Douglas Road in Toledo. The Blade/Addison Annis

Dugout collision

Toledo’s JP Wagner, left, and Carson McCaleb collide as they try to make the out during a men’s college baseball game at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo. The Blade/Rebecca Benson

Taking the field

Toledo takes the field during the Mud Hens opening day at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo. The Blade/Rebecca Benson

Kid Mayor learns the ropes

Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz shows the 2026 Kid Mayor Jamie Howard, fourth grader at Ella P. Stewart Academy for Girls, the right way to prop her feet up on his desk Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at One Government Center in Toledo.
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