News

LIMA — Improvements are underway as the U.S. Army walks out a 15 year-modernization plan. Locally, the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center has received millions of dollars in funding for the plant to continue to create tanks for the United States military and for contracted allied countries around the world.

LIMA — The Lima-Allen County Regional Planning Commission will be closed to the public the week of Monday, Dec. 5, through Friday, Dec. 9, for building renovations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was moving quickly Thursday in an effort to avert a rail strike that the Biden administration and business leaders say would greatly damage the economy.

LIMA — The bond for a Lima man charged with ten drug-related crimes among others was reinstated with stricter conditions after a hearing on Thursday.

LIMA — Mary and her family have had a difficult year.

BLUFFTON — Bluffton University’s music department has announced the soloists for its 128th performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, in Yoder Recital Hall. Soloists are Misook Yun, soprano; Elizabeth Frey, mezzo-soprano; Brian Skoog, tenor; and Max Pivik, bass.

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OTTAWA — A man who earlier this year on successive days sold methamphetamine to an undercover informant from his Ottoville home was sentenced Wednesday in Putnam County Common Pleas Court to 54 months in prison.

LIMA — Allen County Commissioners Beth Seibert, Brian Winegardner and Cory Noonan met Wednesday afternoon to discuss pending budget plans. The Commissioners reviewed potential budget plans with the Clerk of the Board Kelli Singhaus.

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