Before glass and cars, Fostoria made the wooden spokes, bent rims and buggy bows that kept America’s wagons rolling. An 1884 photo of the Cunningham & Co. Spoke and Bending Works crew opens a look at the town’s wagon-wood industry.
Bond has been set at $1 million for Bradly Ray, the Fostoria man charged with murder in the 2006 killing of Jeffrey Risner, and a pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Nov. 9, 13 ABC reports.
Where to get food help in Fostoria: Pantry Plus of Seneca County’s Friday pantry, the monthly senior box, weekday senior lunches on Findlay Street, SNAP and how to find more help by dialing 2-1-1. Always call ahead.
The Seneca County General Health District says staff found nothing indicating a strong chemical odor reported Sunday evening on CR 18 in Fostoria was coming from the WIN Waste landfill.
On Feb. 16, 1903, an explosion and fire destroyed a small South Main Street factory that made the explosive for the Fox Magazine Cane. Eight people died in what the local paper called “Fostoria’s most awful tragedy.”
Coyotes live in every kind of habitat in Ohio, including towns like Fostoria. Here are the facts behind common coyote myths and practical ways to protect pets, from leash length to fence height.
From 1903 to 1977, the John B. Rogers Producing Co. sent directors, scripts and costumes from Fostoria to towns across America to stage home-talent shows and huge outdoor historical pageants. Here is the story of the firm and its West Center Street headquarters.
Raccoons in the trash, a skunk under the deck, an opossum on the porch: here is how to tell what you are dealing with, why most of these visitors are harmless, and humane ways to send them on their way.
Where Main, Perry and Sandusky streets meet, an old postcard shows a dirt street, rail tracks, an Oil Well Supply Co. sign and a flour mill. Here is the story of Times Square, the Franke brothers’ Fostoria City Mills and the Sandusky Street mill around 1900.
That stone tower is the old Fostoria Water Works standpipe — the original water tower at the end of West Fremont Street, on the same grounds where the city’s water treatment plant still sits today at 744 West Fremont. The stone structure in your photo is the tower’s base. The metal tank portion that once […]
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