Rounudp: Allen East completes NWC boys golf sweep
Volleyball: Ottawa-Glandorf fends off Celina
Boys golf: Shawnee claims overall WBL title
Transformation underway for Lima’s ‘Central District’
Allen County buys building for public defenders
Latest Updates
- Transformation underway for Lima’s ‘Central District’ - 8:56 pm updated: 8:56 pm.
- Allen County buys building for public defenders - 8:55 pm updated: 8:57 pm.
- Emotions run high in Omosikeji sentencing case - 8:54 pm updated: 8:57 pm.
- Delphos man charged in rape of 10-year-old - 8:53 pm updated: 8:57 pm.
- Man gets 4 years for attacking drug dealer - 8:52 pm updated: 8:58 pm.
- Lima Mall sponsors Community Day on Oct. 3 - 7:00 pm
- Dems, GOP agree: Vote will stand - 6:55 pm updated: 7:03 pm.
- Community Safety Awards handed out Thursday - 6:35 pm
- Pay cuts become permanent for many - 6:06 pm
- Urban Forestry Council sets monthly meeting - 6:00 pm
- Group to register voters in 1st, 3rd 7th wards - 5:37 pm
- Lima seeks poet laureate; applications due Nov. 1 - 5:15 pm
- Wine Stroll slated Oct. 17 in Wapakoneta - 5:00 pm
- Streamed program shares how to sell online - 4:00 pm
- Lori Borgman: 2 tips for improving your smize - 4:00 pm
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 3:10 pm
- ‘Evening of Inspiration’ planned Oct. 14 - 3:00 pm
- Police calls - 2:55 pm
- Births - 2:54 pm
- Maria Stein Shrine plans two sessions about Sunday Mass - 2:00 pm
- King & Country drive-in concert in Celina postponed - 1:36 pm
- Pet costume contest planned Oct. 3 at Lima Mall - 1:00 pm
- Putnam County District Library plans online program on what to do when email’s full - 12:00 pm
- Defendants enters pleas in Allen County courtroom - 11:54 am
- Drive-through flu shots offered at Putnam County Council on Aging - 11:00 am
NEWS
Community Safety Awards handed out Thursday
LIMA — The 22nd annual community safety awards program, sponsored jointly by the Lima-Allen County Safe Community Coalition, the Fraternal Order...
September 24th, 2020 |
Pay cuts become permanent for many
Pay cuts introduced by U.S. employers in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic _ meant to stave off layoffs and retain key employees _ have prove...
September 24th, 2020 |
Urban Forestry Council sets monthly meeting
LIMA — The Urban Forestry Council will hold its monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Cambridge Center, 418 N. Center St., Lima. .n...
September 24th, 2020 |
Group to register voters in 1st, 3rd 7th wards
LIMA — The Committee on Racial Injustice and Reform plans to register eligible voters similarly in the 1st, 3rd and 7th wards Sunday.It register...
September 24th, 2020 |
Lima seeks poet laureate; applications due Nov. 1
LIMA — Applications for becoming Lima’s first poet laureate are due Nov. 1. They can be found at ArtSpace/Lima, 65 Town Square, or on the ...
September 24th, 2020 |
SPORTS
Volleyball: Ottawa-Glandorf fends off Celina
CELINA – Technically it was not for the Western Buckeye League title, but Ottawa-Glandorf head coach Amber Gerdeman knew that beating Celina wou...
September 24th, 2020 |
Boys golf: Shawnee claims overall WBL title
KENTON — Defiance won the Western Buckeye League boys golf tournament but Shawnee did enough to win the overall league championship on Thursday ...
September 24th, 2020 |
Lima area sports calendar
Note: Events may be canceled due to coronavirus outbreak. Each week, The Lima News publishes a calendar of events of local interest. Events should be ...
September 24th, 2020 |
Votto homers, Bauer sharp as surging Reds top Brewers 6-1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto homered for his first hit all season against Milwaukee, Trevor Bauer dominated on short rest, and the Cincinnati Re...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Mayfield, Browns’ high-powered offense show early promise
CLEVELAND (AP) — Like a mother lion with her hungry cubs, Baker Mayfield has many mouths to feed.And just one football to share.When Mayfield lo...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Perry seeks more success
With a convincing 24-8 win over Riverside last Friday, Perry snared its second straight Northwest Central Conference football title in the Lane divisi...
September 23rd, 2020 updated: September 23rd, 2020. |
LIFESTYLE
Why are Black men in the U.S. more likely to die from prostate cancer?
LIMA — Black men in the U.S. are nearly 60% more likely to develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes and more than twice as likely to die from ...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Quinn on Nutrition: Inherited high cholesterol: Can nutrition help?
“My cholesterol is too high,” a patient explained. “But I can’t help it. It’s hereditary.” She was right. Her type...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Births
Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterSept. 22 — Aneisa Briggs and Craig L. Robertson Jr., Lima, boy; Alyssa Chaffins and Kiran Kota, Lima...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Tuttle Construction
LIMA — In the 1950s the first wave of the Baby Boom generation swept over the school system and touched off a boom of another sort — a sch...
September 22nd, 2020 |
Births
Lima Memorial Health SystemSept. 21 — Haley Pierson, Lima, boy.Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterSept. 21 — Julie and Corey Buck...
September 22nd, 2020 |
Sweet 16: Post Malone leads Billboard Awards nominations
NEW YORK (AP) — Post Malone is the sunflower of the 2020 Billboard Music Awards.The multi-platinum 25-year-old star scored 16 nominations, dick ...
September 22nd, 2020 |
OPINION
Don Stratton: Today’s No. 1 oxymoron: customer service
So many major companies today offer what they call customer service, but it turns out to be anything but service. It seems to at its worst in the tech...
September 24th, 2020 |
Lori Borgman: 2 tips for improving your smize
One of the grands sent a self-portrait she created for art class. The top half of the portrait shows her hair parted in the middle with one of her sig...
September 24th, 2020 |
Letter: Voting for what’s right!
Recently The Lima News printed a letter from Marion Edwards. I read it and thought she did a good job expressing reasons for voting for Trump.I realiz...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Editorial: Don’t call Ruth Bader Ginsburg a revolutionary
We join the nation in mourning the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her life of service to our country and its laws has rightly inspired millions...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Jerry Zezima: Going to seed with a lawn guy
Because I am widely recognized as an airhead, just like the stars of the Tom and Jerry cartoons, you’d think I would be an expert in aeration, w...
September 23rd, 2020 |
John Grindrod: The wedding gift, largely forgotten and yet …
Of course, the narrative that matters the most to us, our own lives, is divided into chapters, and there is that chapter that begins somewhere between...
September 23rd, 2020 updated: September 23rd, 2020. |
BUSINESS
Mercer County pullet farm seeks ODA permit renewal
ST. HENRY — A St. Henry pullet farm is asking the Ohio Department of Agriculture to renew an operating permit for five years, allowing the farm ...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Home prices, sales continue to rise
LIMA — Home prices in Allen County and the west central region rose by an average of 7.3% in the first eight months of 2020, a positive trend fo...
September 23rd, 2020 updated: September 23rd, 2020. |
Allen County jobless rate falls to 8.4% in August
LIMA — Allen County’s jobless rate fell 0.3 percentage points from July to August as 300 people were hired or returned to their previous j...
September 22nd, 2020 |
250-acre development in works near Cridersville
CRIDERSVILLE — A potential 250-acre development comparable to Levis Commons in Perrysburg is currently being planned for the east side of Inters...
September 19th, 2020 updated: September 19th, 2020. |
Construction in overdrive
COLUMBUS — Central Ohio is on track for a record amount of new warehouse space this year, driven in part by a surge of consumers shopping from h...
September 19th, 2020 |
Allen Lima Leadership recognizes 2020 graduates
LIMA — Allen Lima Leadership will introduce its 33rd class Thursday night and celebrate the graduation of its 32nd class during an event Thursda...
September 19th, 2020 |
STATE NEWS
Ohio sues to block nuclear bailout money from being paid
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s attorney general sued Wednesday in an attempt to block the state’s nuclear plants from collecting fees on electric...
September 23rd, 2020 |
Cedar Point again will require reservations to visit, starting in October
SANDUSKY, Ohio — Cedar Point again will require reservations to visit, starting Oct. 3, the result of large crowds expected at the park over the...
September 21st, 2020 |
Ohio, GOP defend limit on ballot drop boxes to 1 per county
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio and Republican groups including the Trump campaign are fighting to uphold a GOP election chief’s directive limi...
September 21st, 2020 |
Akron moves forward with ‘Rubber City Heritage Trail’ on abandoned elevated railway
AKRON, Ohio — Akron and the Ohio and Erie Canalway Coalition are moving forward with plans to design the six-mile “Rubber City Heritage Tr...
September 18th, 2020 updated: September 18th, 2020. |
ACLU report says reducing cash bail could save Ohio millions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio could save up to $264 million a year by reducing the use of cash jail to house defendants before their case is resolv...
September 17th, 2020 |
Multi-state settlement relieves debt for ITT Tech students
A multi-state settlement will provide $20.6 million in debt relief to former Ohio students of the defunct ITT Technical Institute, Ohio Attorney Gener...
September 15th, 2020 |
