Latest Updates
- Anti-solar group discusses projects - 8:45 pm
- Lima schools note upcoming closings - 8:30 pm
- Bluffton utilities committee to meet - 8:30 pm
- Shrove Tuesday pancake supper planned in Lafayette - 8:01 pm
- GOP largely sides against holding Trump impeachment trial - 7:45 pm updated: 9:46 pm.
- Ohio, Spectrum to take look at Lima’s stopped trains - 7:28 pm
- Vaccine push coming to Allen Co. schools - 7:18 pm
- Putnam County District Library to hold retirement talk - 7:00 pm
- No school dates set for Pandora-Gilboa schools - 6:30 pm
- Bluffton personnel committee to meet - 6:30 pm
- Wapakoneta plans chocolate walk with downtown businesses - 6:00 pm
- Blood donation scheduled in Bluffton - 5:00 pm
- Bluffton University develops partnerships with regional businesses and schools - 4:30 pm
- Bluffton parks and recreation committee to meet - 4:30 pm
- Blood donation scheduled in Wapakoneta - 4:00 pm
- John Grindrod: Opinions are like noses … - 4:00 pm
- Man charged in robbery wants to take back guilty plea - 3:47 pm updated: 3:50 pm.
- Births - 3:43 pm
- Coffe Amor moving into UNOH bookstore - 3:42 pm
- Mixed unemployment numbers for the region - 3:33 pm
- Lima Rotary to hear Big Brothers Big Sisters update - 3:30 pm
- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 3:13 pm updated: 7:15 pm.
- American Township drop-off recycling set - 3:00 pm
- Wapakoneta veterans selling banners - 2:30 pm
- Bluffton safety committee to meet - 2:30 pm
NEWS

Vaccine push coming to Allen Co. schools
LIMA — School districts across the Lima region are reporting that anywhere from 50% to 70% of their K-12 employees intend to take the COVID-19 v...
January 26th, 2021 |

Putnam County District Library to hold retirement talk
OTTAWA — The Putnam County District Library will hold a talk on the Power of Zero “Transform Your Retirement” by Dan Turnwald at noo...
January 26th, 2021 |

No school dates set for Pandora-Gilboa schools
PANDORA — Pandora-Gilboa students won’t have classes on two upcoming dates due to staff in-services.There will be no school for students o...
January 26th, 2021 |

Bluffton personnel committee to meet
BLUFFTON — The Village of Bluffton Personnel Committee will meet at noon Wednesday, Feb. 3 via Zoom.Receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting by...
January 26th, 2021 |

Wapakoneta plans chocolate walk with downtown businesses
WAPAKONETA — A downtown Wapakoneta Chocolate Walk will be from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, with more than 20 businesses participating.Ticke...
January 26th, 2021 |

Blood donation scheduled in Bluffton
BLUFFTON — There will be a blood donation opportunity from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4 at Youth For Christ, 111 W. College Ave., Bluffton. ....
January 26th, 2021 |
SPORTS

Chiefs roar back from slow start against Bills to return to Super Bowl
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It took the Kansas City Chiefs five frustrating decades to make their second Super Bowl appearance.Now, the defending ch...
January 24th, 2021 |

Bucs win, Brady going to 10th Super Bowl, Packers coach questioned
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Tom Brady has a new team, in a new town. The destination is the same: another Super Bowl.At home, too.The man with six NF...
January 24th, 2021 |

Michigan stops all sports for two weeks
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The entire University of Michigan athletic department is pausing after several positive tests for the new COVID-19 varia...
January 24th, 2021 |

Boys basketball: Kalida shuts down Leipsic
KALIDA — With Kalida starter Ayden Warnecke out of the line-up and the Wildcats in dire need of a win after two straight losses, Wildcat head co...
January 23rd, 2021 |
Roundup: Columbus Grove defeats Liberty-Benton in girls basketball
COLUMBUS GROVE — The host Bulldogs outscored No. 8-ranked Division III Liberty-Benton 14-9 in the fourth quarter to earn a 37-33 girls high scho...
January 23rd, 2021 updated: January 23rd, 2021. |

College basketball: Liddell scores 20 in Ohio State win against Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Ohio State is capitalizing on the lack of fans at Big Ten games this season to take down one ranked opponent after another on th...
January 23rd, 2021 |
LIFESTYLE

Tom Brokaw says he’s retiring from NBC News after 55 years
NEW YORK — NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw said Friday that he is retiring from the network after 55 years.Brokaw, author of “The Greatest Gen...
January 22nd, 2021 |

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 |
OPINION
Letter: Trump never will admit loss
Go back in time to the months leading up to the 2016 election. Remember what Donald Trump was saying over and over again: The election was rigged.To e...
January 25th, 2021 |

Jerry Zezima: The bucks stop here
A major American bank where I don’t have any money because, unfortunately, I don’t have any money has hired Jennifer Garner and Samuel L. ...
January 25th, 2021 |

From presidents to faded stars, all welcomed by Larry King
NEW YORK — Larry King was easy to poke fun at, particularly late in his career at CNN: the pinched look, guffaws and coke-bottle glasses, the su...
January 25th, 2021 |

Leonard Pitts Jr.: No way for decent people to ‘unite’ with racism, anti-Semitism or homophobia
It’s been said of Abraham Lincoln that he had a “mystical” devotion to the idea of Union. His conviction that the American states we...
January 24th, 2021 |

Jim Krumel: People are busy making spring travel plans, but should they?
If Dr. Wilfred Ellis had his way, people would be leaving their luggage in the closet.That’s not happening though.More Ohioans are making plans ...
January 24th, 2021 |
BUSINESS

Business creation in Ohio sets record
COLUMBUS — Ohio entrepreneurs have been busy during the pandemic.According to figures released by the Ohio Secretary of State’s Business S...
January 25th, 2021 updated: January 25th, 2021. |

Leipsic Police Department receives certification
COLUMBUS — The Leipsic Police Department in Putnam County has been certified by the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.There are 482 agenc...
January 25th, 2021 |

Coldwater company honored for bridal work
COLDWATER — Totally Promotional recently received two prestigious awards.The promotional products company earned The Knott 2021 Best of Weddings...
January 25th, 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 |

Legal-Ease: Impending tax law changes: what to do now
Our local media leaders do their best to provide us with news that is not always related to politics. However, some state and national media treat pol...
January 23rd, 2021 |

Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative plan investments for 2021
PAULDING — Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative is planning $4 million in investments focused on system improvements that will directly increase...
January 22nd, 2021 |
STATE NEWS

Indictment: Pair used drones to drop drug packages at prison
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — Two men allegedly used a drone to drop drugs and cell phones into the yard at an Ohio prison last summer in what authoritie...
January 26th, 2021 |

1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men who are each paying $55 million to fly on a S...
January 26th, 2021 |

Hearing delayed for Wright-Patt general facing court martial
The Article 32 hearing against a former commander of Air Force Research Lab has been rescheduled to Feb. 8 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, an Air ...
January 25th, 2021 |

Feds accuse 3 Ohio men of illegally entering U.S. Capitol
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Three more Ohioans have been charged with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol as part of a mob of supporters of former Pre...
January 25th, 2021 |

Ohio JFS security vulnerability may have exposed personal data
Nearly 150 people may have had their personal information exposed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the agency said Monday.Of the 146...
January 25th, 2021 |

Portman won’t seek reelection in 2022
CINCINNATI — Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday that he won’t seek reelection to a third term in 2022, expressing dismay with the deep part...
January 25th, 2021 updated: January 25th, 2021. |