St. Gerard Festival to return this weekend
LIMA — The 43rd annual St. Gerard Festival will return this weekend for the second straight year after two years off due to the pandemic. Organizer Kelly Stolly thinks people are going to be ready to get out and enjoy the celebration and good weather just as they were in 2022.
First Friday to return to downtown Lima
LIMA — Downtown Lima’s First Fridays will return for the summer starting at 5 p.m. Friday with the Dog Days of Summer.
Reminisce: Recalling Schoonover Pool
Two and a half weeks before marching bands, a stunt pilot and “Diablo the Human Torch” entertained some 50,000 people at the dedication of Schoonover Park, the man most responsible for making it all possible quietly tried out the park’s recently completed swimming pool.
Featured events coming up in the Lima region
Open Mic Day
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Exclusive secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion
OXON HILL, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.
Students lay peoplewithout families to rest
Beneath a gray sky at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Raytown, Missouri, Father Gary Menard gathered a group of high school students around him and told them that everyone dies twice.
Try This: Windows with a secret
Some windows, called “thermal windows,” help keep a house warm in winter and cool in summer. With this simple tool, you can tell whether a window is thermal or not.
New book ‘Last On His Feet’ captures brilliantly boxer Jack Johnson and the Battle...
The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.”
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