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LIMA — As career highlights go, the total solar eclipse that will cast surrounding counties into approximately four minutes of total darkness on April 8 is very much in Joel Steinmetz’s wheelhouse.

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LIMA — In honor of Community Banking Month, Citizens National Bank will host a community shred day. According to a recent press release, the shred day will be held on Friday, April 26 at each branch. The release also states community members can bring 3 office boxes or grocery bags full of papers. The accepted items include financial statements, checks, pay stubs, tax records, items with social security numbers or signatures, magazines and mail. The bank will also be hosting a basket giveaway with a $150 value. For more information visit cnbohio.com.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.

TODAY IN HISTORY

LIMA — The Lima Astronomical Society encourages you to enjoy the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse. You just won’t be able to do it at Lima’s Schoonover Observatory.

RUSSELLS POINT — People recovering from a deadly tornado at Indian Lake had an opportunity to sit back and reflect Sunday.

LIMA — Police are looking for information about an Easter morning shooting that left three people hospitalized in serious condition.

RUSSELS POINT — A nearly 20-foot tall statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary that’s been missing since a March 14 tornado hit Indian Lake was recovered from the bottom of the lake Saturday.

TROY — The Miami County Prosecutor’s Office has approved the closing of the Daisy Shelton homicide case which occurred in 1964.