Lifestyle

From frostbite to hypothermia, extremely cold can be dangerous.

Shoveling and digging out after a heavy snowfall can be a good workout for most people; but for those with heart disease, shoveling is best left for others to do.

In the summer of 1889 optimism about Lima’s future flowed as freely as the oil discovered four years earlier on the banks of the Ottawa River and the city, which would win renown for producing steam locomotives, seemed in the eyes of some on the verge of becoming a manufacturer of the rail cars those locomotives hauled.

LIMA — Local photographer Dallas Castle has been working hard on an event to support a special cause and give local couples a fun night out.

For more than a century, the Granite State has officially set the nominating process in motion by hosting the nation’s first presidential primary. But how much do you know about this time-honored political tradition? Test your knowledge with this short, fun quiz.

FICTION

A friend tells me her husband spent the better part of the holidays suffering with a bout of divertitulitis. I feel his pain. It’s a fairly common condition, especially as we get older.

She follows me around everywhere and talks my ear off. She stops me in the hallway if I seem rushed or frazzled and tells me that I need a “Reagan hug.” And every time she does that, I always do. She reminds me to stop, slow down and rest for a minute.

“The Fetishist,” the delightful, fantastic, fabulous and unfortunately posthumous second novel by Katherine Min, might be the first literary work by an Asian American woman to “deal squarely with queasy questions of desire and politics between a white man and an Asian woman.”

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was recently diagnosed with cancer. Are there specific foods I should be eating or avoiding?