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LIMA — The November election is just two months away. With many candidates on the ballot, both the Republican and Democratic parties are advocating for their representatives to finish their races. Ohio state Rep. Susan Manchester, R-Waynesfield, spoke to the Republican party at a luncheon in Lima on Friday afternoon to encourage her cohorts to vote.

LIMA POLICE DEPARTMENT

LIMA — The Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management plans to perform a monthly test of all 50 community warning sirens in Allen County on Wednesday, September 7 at 12 p.m. The test will continue once a month on the first Wednesday. In case of a real emergency, sirens will prompt residents to go indoors and check local news media for information and instructions on necessary emergency actions.

Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center

WASHINGTON (AP) — Along with highly classified government documents, the FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate found dozens of empty folders marked classified but with nothing inside and no explanation of what might have been there, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public on Friday.

OTTAWA— Crime Victims Services dedicated a portrait of late Putnam County Volunteer Vicenta “Cindy” Velasquez as part of its Elder Portraits Series at a Friday morning ceremony.

Monday, Sept. 5 and Monday, Sept. 19: Car & Bike Night, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Wings and Rings, 1939 Roschman Avenue (next to Sam’s Club), Lima. Free admission. Door prizes and a 50/50 drawing. Ten percent of food sales go to the West Ohio Food Bank.

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KALIDA — For Mike and Melanie Rigsby, the choice was an easy one.

Updated booster shots coming soon