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- After Trump, Biden aims to reshape presidency - 6:19 pm
- Patients delaying emergency care; COVID hospitalizations stabilize - 6:16 pm
- Michael Reagan: It’s time for Trump, Biden to suck it up - 6:07 pm
- Workshops deal with coping with pandemic - 5:42 pm
- ODOT releases winter operation stats - 5:25 pm
- Tree removal to close parts of Bluelick Road - 5:24 pm
- Screenings set at Delphos elementary school - 5:21 pm
- Lima Memorial updates visitation policy - 5:15 pm
- Volunteer guardians fill crucial role for some county residents - 5:12 pm
- Column: Google’s monopoly isn’t a game for newspapers - 5:00 pm
- Births - 4:53 pm
- David Trinko: Lessons learned from labels on salad dressing - 4:00 pm
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- Today’s latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic - 2:14 pm updated: 5:23 pm.
- Wapakoneta school board’s March meeting set - 2:00 pm
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- Land transfers, Jan. 7-13 - 10:30 am
- Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities’ ethics council to meet - 9:00 am
- Legal-Ease: Waking the sleeping dogs of rural septic systems - 9:00 am
- Get This: Elvis Presley’s Graceland starting live virtual tours - 8:00 am
- Family questions Lima nursing home care - 7:51 pm
- Lima African American Chamber renews call for HRC - 7:17 pm
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NEWS

Tree removal to close parts of Bluelick Road
BATH TOWNSHIP — Bluelick Road between state Route 65 and Berryhill Road will be closed between 8 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday for tr...
January 16th, 2021 |

Screenings set at Delphos elementary school
DELPHOS — Franklin Elementary in Delphos will soon be registering children for Begindergarten/Kindergarten Screening for the 2021-22 school year...
January 16th, 2021 |

Lima Memorial updates visitation policy
LIMA — Lima Memorial Health System has updated its visitation policy.• One person at a time will be permitted to visit hospitalized patien...
January 16th, 2021 |

Volunteer guardians fill crucial role for some county residents
LIMA — Andrew Carey was one of the first people to sign up for the Volunteer Guardian program in Allen County, a program started in 2017 by Alle...
January 16th, 2021 |

Column: Google’s monopoly isn’t a game for newspapers
It is no secret that Google has secured a near monopoly in the search and local advertising world. However, the impact on newspapers hasn’t been...
January 16th, 2021 |

Births
Lima Memorial Health SystemJan. 14 — Haley and Seth Sheriff, Cridersville, boy.Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical CenterJan. 15 — Keyla...
January 16th, 2021 |
SPORTS

Boys basketball: Shawnee survives against St. Marys
ST. MARYS — Each time St. Marys was on the verge to take the lead, Shawnee had an answer.Many times, the answer came from senior standout George...
January 15th, 2021 |

Boys basketball: Crestview holds off Delphos Jefferson
DELPHOS – Crestview’s Kalen Etzler’s basketball talents were on full display against Delphos Jefferson and the Knights needed all th...
January 15th, 2021 |

Ohio high school boys, girls basketball scores for Friday, Jan. 15
BoysAkr. Hoban 57, Mentor Lake Cath. 32Akr. North 75, Akr. Ellet 52Amherst Steele 76, Avon 70Andrews Osborne Academy 76, Elyria Open Door 62Anna 61, B...
January 15th, 2021 updated: January 15th, 2021. |

Meyer’s return to coaching not a surprise
When John Cooper was Ohio State’s football coach he had a habit of beginning answers to questions in press conferences by saying, “Obvious...
January 15th, 2021 |

Now is a good time to learn how to tie fishing knots
Trying to get through the months of January and February can be agony for an avid angler anxiously waiting to wet a line again.There are things an ang...
January 15th, 2021 |

Girls basketball: Crestview wins NWC encounter against Delphos Jefferson
CONVOY — Delphos Jefferson got the start it wanted.The Wildcats led the entire first quarter against Crestview.Then, Crestview freshman Cali Gre...
January 14th, 2021 updated: January 15th, 2021. |
LIFESTYLE

Siegfried Fischbacher, of illusion duo Siegfried & Roy, dies
LAS VEGAS — Siegfried Fischbacher, namesake partner in the iconic entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy, has died in Las Vegas at age 81. Fischb...
January 14th, 2021 |

Quinn on Nutrition: New year, new ideas
Yay! It’s a brand new year. A chance to begin anew. I’m especially excited about getting this weak body back in shape after recovering fro...
January 13th, 2021 |

From our readers
Area readers are always kind in sharing with us their treasured photographs for Reminisce. We continue to accept photos or story ideas of older times ...
January 12th, 2021 |

Real Life Mama: Help with the load
I am giving it up. Everything. No longer can I carry all that I have been holding for the last almost year. It’s heavy, I can’t handle it ...
January 9th, 2021 |

Anna and Norman Mumma
ELIDA — Mr. and Mrs. Norman “Sam” Mumma are celebrating 50 years of marriage. An open house is planned for a later date.Mumma and th...
January 9th, 2021 |

100th birthday: Ann Ramsdell
LIMA — Ann Ramsdell is celebrating her 100th birthday. A family celebration will be held.She was born Dec. 29, 1920, in McGuffey, to Lawrence an...
January 9th, 2021 |
OPINION

Letter: Root cause of Trump’s loss
Mr. Figley decries the Black Lives Matter marches held during the summer as unjustifiably violent. Regarding the siege at the Capitol, he asserts heig...
January 16th, 2021 |

Letter: The need for free speech
The freedoms of assembly and speech have historically been synonymous in this country. Democrats in Congress are drafting legislation that would class...
January 16th, 2021 |

Letter: No honor for being misled
The recent assault on our Capitol and our Constitution leaves no excuse to absolve many from complicity in attacking our Democracy.For the many who su...
January 16th, 2021 |

Lee Edwards column: The challenge for conservatives in a post-Trump world
We often hear calls for national unity when presidents are inaugurated. And we’re sure to hear them again, despite the fact that we are still di...
January 16th, 2021 |

Column: Google’s monopoly isn’t a game for newspapers
It is no secret that Google has secured a near monopoly in the search and local advertising world. However, the impact on newspapers hasn’t been...
January 16th, 2021 |

David Trinko: Lessons learned from labels on salad dressing
Two of my daughters were sitting at the dinner table, looking at the nutrition facts on the back of a bottle of ranch salad dressing.They started talk...
January 16th, 2021 |
BUSINESS

Legal-Ease: Waking the sleeping dogs of rural septic systems
Sewage is generally classified into two categories. The first category is storm sewage, sometimes called stormwater sewage. This is sewage that result...
January 16th, 2021 |

Hyundai, Ford F-150, Mustang Mach-E take North American Car, Truck, Utility of Year Awards
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. took two of three of the 2021 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year Awards announced Monday.The Hyu...
January 15th, 2021 |

Allen County companies land $250K in JobsOhio inclusion grants
LIMA — Seven Allen County companies are set to receive $25,000 and $50,000 grants for manufacturing development projects through a new JobsOhio ...
January 12th, 2021 updated: January 12th, 2021. |

Lima Stock + Field store among closures
LIMA — Stock + Field on Cable Road will close later this year, becoming the latest major retailer to vacate a storefront in Lima.Stock + Field C...
January 12th, 2021 updated: January 12th, 2021. |

Guardian Lima talks ethanol production
LIMA — Each day, Guardian Lima grinds roughly 420 acres of corn. The ethanol plant is known for its production of fuel-grade ethanol, an alterna...
January 11th, 2021 |

Another big year for fake meat
Jimmy Dean, the quintessential breakfast sausage brand, is adding plant-based patties in a product debut that is as sure a sign as any that America is...
January 9th, 2021 |
STATE NEWS

Ohio State tests out COVID vaccine clinic at Schottenstein Center
Surrounded by scarlet-and-gray and Block Os, hundreds of health care workers received the first dose of their coronavirus vaccine Friday at Ohio State...
January 15th, 2021 |

100 winter cottages going into more than a dozen NE Ohio restaurants
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Stark Enterprises has bought more than 100 “winter cottages” to help extend the outdoor dining season throughout i...
January 15th, 2021 |

Ohio Supreme Court sets date for ancient burial mound case
NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for debate over providing public access to a set of ancient burial mounds.At ...
January 15th, 2021 |

2 nuke plants, 1 bribery scandal, no answers: Towns on edge
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — For much of the past four years, the residents of a pair of villages along Lake Erie have been on edge over the fate of thei...
January 15th, 2021 |

Butler acquires $3.4M collection of modern art
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — The Butler Institute of American Art has received a landmark collection of experimental 20th-century art.The 98-piece co...
January 15th, 2021 |

Ohio Statehouse, state offices to close amid protest threat
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Statehouse and other state buildings in downtown Columbus will be closed through Inauguration Day as police officers, ...
January 14th, 2021 |