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August 10, 2016

by Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register

MARBLEHEAD — The iconic lighthouse in Marblehead has been photographed many times and been depicted in countless artworks.

So it's not a surprise to see it on a color postcard that U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, has been passing out to promote the importance of the Great Lakes and Lake Erie.


August 10, 2016

by Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register

SANDUSKY — The U.S. EPA awarded nearly $500,000 of grants Wednesday to Sandusky, Huron and Vermilion to improve parks and beaches along the Lake Erie shore.


August 10, 2016

by Jon Stinchcomb -- Port Clinton News Herald

SANDUSKY - Legislators at the national level and local public officials are working together through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in an effort to maintain the health of Lake Erie and its coast.


August 10, 2016

Featured Editorial

There is a lot of justifiable anxiety over the sluggish pace of federal action on Asian carp. The feds have been in slow motion in developing a plan to stave off the near-certain doomsday scenario that would play out should Asian carp find their way into the Great Lakes. So, it is up to us.


August 4, 2016

by Stephen Koff -- Plain Dealer

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Retired iron workers in Northeast Ohio will get a short reprieve before their pensions could be cut.


August 3, 2016
By: Tom Henry, The Blade
August 3, 2016
Great Lakes charter boat captains are calling on Congress to refocus efforts on Asian carp, the exotic species with a voracious appetite that many fish biologists fear would wreak havoc on the region’s $7 billion fishery if they ever became established in it.

August 3, 2016

by Sabrina Eaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo area:


August 2, 2016
By: Katie Nix, The Chronicle-Telegram
August 2, 2016
LORAIN — Former Lorain resident and current U.S. Sen.

August 1, 2016
By: Sabrina Eaton, Cleveland.com
August 1, 2016
CLEVELAND -- At first, workers in Rep. Marcy Kaptur's office on Lorain Ave.

July 26, 2016
By: Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com
July 26, 2016
WASHINGTON - Cleveland Metroparks has been awarded a $7.95 million federal transportation grant to build more than four miles of bicycle and pedestrian trails in central Cleveland, including a bridge to connect the existing Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail to the lakefront, ac