BREAKING NEWS

Lima News e-edition open after printing delayed
LIMA — Issues at the printing plant will delay the delivery of your newspaper today.Problems at the press facility in Indianapolis led to newspa...
January 24th, 2021 |
Latest Updates
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 2:06 pm
- Cooking time slated for library’s teen club - 1:00 pm
- Wapakoneta school board sets November meeting - 12:30 pm
- Putnam County District Library sets program on college savings program - 11:00 am
- Book discussion planned at Putnam Co. library - 9:00 am
- Lima News e-edition open after printing delayed - 8:48 am
- Upper Scioto Valley school board sets meetings - 7:01 pm
- The words they tweet: The messaging behind federal politicians in 2020 - 7:00 pm updated: 7:23 pm.
- Dominion Energy awards environmental grants - 6:48 pm
- Shawnee residents recognized for holiday cheer - 6:47 pm
- Delphos couple hopes tracking devices keep children with autism from ‘running’ - 6:44 pm
- Coronavirus cases slowly trending down in Lima region - 6:36 pm
- Insurers add food to coverage menu as way to improve health - 6:32 pm
- Putnam County District Library plans online programs - 5:00 pm
- Jim Krumel: With Trump gone, what’s the future for Jim Jordan? - 5:00 pm
- David Trinko: We all belong to something important - 4:00 pm
- Inside Biden’s first days in charge - 3:14 pm
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 3:11 pm updated: 6:37 pm.
- Ready to Read Zoom Storytimes set via Putnam County District Library - 3:00 pm
- Lima drug raid nabs one - 3:00 pm
- Photos: Flipping flapjacks for fireman in Lafayette - 2:13 pm updated: 2:15 pm.
- Nominations sought for Jefferson Awards - 1:55 pm updated: 1:57 pm.
- Child struck, airlifted to Toledo hospital - 1:53 pm
- After School Club events planned at Putnam County library - 1:00 pm
- Wapakoneta school board sets October meeting - 12:30 pm
NEWS

Upper Scioto Valley school board sets meetings
McGUFFEY — The Upper Scioto Valley school board will meet at 6 p.m. second Mondays of each month in the board room, 510 S. Courtright St., McGuf...
January 23rd, 2021 |

The words they tweet: The messaging behind federal politicians in 2020
LIMA — Sen. Rob Portman sure likes to talk about “Ohio.” Sen. Sherrod Brown seems to be always focusing on “workers,” an...
January 23rd, 2021 updated: January 23rd, 2021. |

Dominion Energy awards environmental grants
LIMA — Two Lima area organizations, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio and Ohio Energy & Advanced Manufacturing Center, each recently received $5,0...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Shawnee residents recognized for holiday cheer
SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — Shawnee Township recently held a Deck Your House Contest as part of the Shawnee Luminary Night.In first place was the Johnson...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Delphos couple hopes tracking devices keep children with autism from ‘running’
DELPHOS — Weeks after Nick and Katie Goergens volunteered to look for a young Fort Jennings boy who wandered away from home last May, the couple...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Coronavirus cases slowly trending down in Lima region
LIMA — The holiday season, once feared as a potential super-spreader event, did not usher in a major resurgence of coronavirus cases in the Lima...
January 23rd, 2021 |
SPORTS

Boys basketball: Perry defeats Elida for 12th victory
ELIDA — Perry’s running game was too much for Elida as the Commodores notched a 71-49 boys basketball victory over Elida Saturday night at...
January 23rd, 2021 updated: January 24th, 2021. |

Bath rolls past No. 1 Fort Loramie
BATH TOWNSHIP — Longtime Bath girls head basketball coach Greg Mauk has been preaching to his team the importance of being focused and locked in...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Ohio Northern opens men’s basketball season with win
WILMINGTON — Sophomore C.J. Napier had his second career double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Ohio Northern men’s bask...
January 23rd, 2021 |
Roundup: Perry stays unbeaten in NWCC with win against Ridgemont
Boys BasketballPerry 67, Ridgemont 46MOUNT VICTORY — Perry outscored Ridgemont 23-9 in the fourth quarter to secure the win and remain atop the ...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Boys basketball: Lincolnview runs past Allen East
MIDDLE POINT — Lincolnview wants to get out in transition as much as possible.In Friday’s Northwest Conference boys basketball matchup wit...
January 23rd, 2021 |
LIFESTYLE

Monster truck show won’t return to Lima
LIMA — The 4-Wheel Jamboree, which brought 30,000-plus people and $6.5 million in tourism to Lima each year, won’t be returning to the All...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Art exhibits, educational talks and pancakes this weekend
REGION — From learning opportunities to opportunities to have some else cook your breakfast, there are a few options this weekend:• A driv...
January 21st, 2021 |

Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman: ‘Even as we grieved, we grew.’
NEW YORK — The country has a new president and a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Go...
January 21st, 2021 |

Lima’s Crawford Shoes
LIMA — Kenneth Crawford knew what counted when it came to selling shoes — what The Lima News described as “an unwavering attention...
January 19th, 2021 |

Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” ...
January 17th, 2021 |

Real Life Mama: Please go to sleep
Isn’t it amazing how quickly kids can jump from school schedule to holiday break and yet how long it takes to get them back into a school schedu...
January 17th, 2021 |
OPINION

Letter: Not the same ol’ Browns
The Cleveland Browns lost to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, but we gave them one hell of a scare.The Browns proved they belonge...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Letter: Huge debt has consequence
In a column by Cal Thomas on the Opinion page some months back, he quoted a former Congressional Budget Office director who said the national debt is ...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Letter: A gentleman and a fool
To former Vice President Pence:Thank you for being a real American. Fullfilling your duties you undertook when your were placed into office, you did i...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Jim Krumel: With Trump gone, what’s the future for Jim Jordan?
Not surprisingly there is all kind of speculation about Jim Jordan’s future.A few weeks ago The (Columbus) Dispatch reported there is talk of th...
January 23rd, 2021 |

David Trinko: We all belong to something important
Our 7-year-old daughter was so excited about something that looked like junk mail to me.“It’s addressed to the Trinko family!” she k...
January 23rd, 2021 |
BUSINESS

Judge Willamowski named Presiding Judge
LIMA — John R. Willamowski, judge with the Third District Court of Appeals in Lima, has been designated as presiding judge of that court for 202...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Versa-Pak receives Ohio Rail Development Commission grant
CELINA — Versa-Pak Ltd. has received an Ohio Rail Development Commission grant for $125,000.That money will be used to help with the expansion o...
January 20th, 2021 |

Federal pandemic unemployment compensation payments issued
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has begun issuing supplemental weekly $300 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation ...
January 20th, 2021 |

Dominion Energy purchases Hardin County solar project
RICHMOND, Va. — Ownership of a new solar generating facility in Hardin County has changed.According to a news release from officials from Domini...
January 19th, 2021 updated: January 21st, 2021. |

Stately Richfield has comfortable living
An artful arrangement of brick and glass blends to give the Richfield a look that’s at once stately and welcoming. Handsome masonry columns supp...
January 16th, 2021 |

Cheryl Parson: 2020’s top 5 scams
It’s pretty much a consensus the best thing about 2020 was seeing it in our rearview mirrors. It was a year packed with tumult. COVID-19 dominat...
January 16th, 2021 |
STATE NEWS

Insurers add food to coverage menu as way to improve health
When COVID-19 first swarmed the United States, one health insurer called some customers with a question: Do you have enough to eat? Oscar Health wante...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Magistrate denies bond for Ohio man in Capitol breach case
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — A federal magistrate refused Friday to set bond for an Ohio man charged with helping plot the attack on the U.S. Capitol.The...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Legislator who questioned Black hygiene to lead health panel
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportion...
January 22nd, 2021 |

Ohio’s quick pardon program off to slow start
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine has granted nine pardons a year after his administration created a faster path to a gubernatorial pardon ̵...
January 21st, 2021 |

Chief: Man who killed officer had vowed not to go to jail
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A man who charged out of his house and shot and killed an Ohio police officer after a two-hour standoff had repeatedly made ...
January 20th, 2021 |

DeWine rejects list of nominees for Ohio utility commission
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine faced swift criticism from consumer advocates Wednesday after he rejected the entire slate of candid...
January 20th, 2021 |