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There’s room for roses and thorns alike in our garden this week.

WAPAKONETA — Two days before NASA’s first scheduled launch of its unmanned Artemis spacecraft in the first recent American attempt to return to the moon on August 29, Neil Armstrong’s hometown of Wapakoneta hosted an event called “Back to the Future 1969,” reflecting back in time to July 20 of that year when Armstrong became the first person to plant his boot on the lunar surface.

Facing fierce competition in the job market, prospective employees are shelling out $1,000 for a professional headshot hoping to gain an edge.

LIMA — Now that abortions are effectively banned in Ohio, the state’s legislators will spend the rest of this year focused on clarifying the lines between medically necessary and voluntary ends of pregnancies.

LIMA — Area law-enforcement officials are looking for information about crimes or people listed in this graphic. The Lima/Allen-Putnam County Crime Stoppers Program offers cash awards of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides an anonymous tip or information that would lead to the arrest of anyone listed on this page. Please call (419) 229-STOP (7867).

In my current line of work, I spend a considerable amount of time behind the wheel and staring through a windshield. These days I do far more driving than I used to do back in my teaching days when I spent no fewer than 10 hours a day in the same room, Room 16, in an old high school building over in St. Marys, a building that no longer blocks the view of Skip Baughman Stadium from West South Street.

The job market has become the Schrödinger’s cat of the American economy.

Inflation and supply chain challenges have driven up the prices of everything from gas to food. Nevertheless, most of us adjust by reallocating our resources from our wants to our needs.

LIMA — This weekend, a local church is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its humble beginnings in Lima.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A newly released FBI document helps flesh out the contours of an investigation into classified material at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. But plenty of questions remain, especially because half the affidavit, which spelled out the FBI’s rationale for searching the property, was blacked out.