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COLUMBUS — Ohio will become the first state to screen all newborn babies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a common hereditary neuromuscular disease in which a child’s muscles degenerate.

AUGLAIZE COUNTY — The Ohio Department of Transportation will soon be completing new projects.

LIMA — A local gospel group will soon perform for a community concert. Soul’d Out will worship at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 4 at First Church, 200 W. Bremen St., New Knoxville. The performance is free to the public.

LIMA — The Ohio State University-Lima will present awards to students, faculty and staff at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 26 in the Martha W. Farmer Theatre for Performing Arts on the OSU-Lima campus, 4240 Campus Drive, Lima.

KENTON — OhioHealth Hardin Memorial Hospital announced Tuesday a donation of $3,000 to West Ohio Food Bank to go toward 18,000 meals.

For many, including my Lady Jane, a past two-term president of the St. Marys Shakespeare Club, Tuesday of this week certainly was a special day, as it was William Shakespeare’s 460th birthday. All who have immersed themselves in his plays and sonnets and marveled at his considerable abilities with a quill in his hand may have spent some time thinking about the Elizabethan icon.

LIMA — Sixth ward Councilor Derry Glenn will hold a youth mental health summit from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Heir Force Community School, 150 W. Grand Ave., Lima.

LIMA — Ohio Northern University students will perform “9 to 5: The Musical” at 7:30 April 26 and 27 and at 2 p.m. April 27 at the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on the ONU campus in Ada.

LIMA — The city of Lima announced that the 600 block of S. Dana Avenue will close from 8 a.m. Thursday, April 25 to Friday, April 26.

LIMA — The following couples have filed applications for marriage licenses in Allen County Probate Court: