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SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — The Lima Police Department SWAT team conducted active shooter drills with the Shawnee Township Police and Fire Departments Wednesday at Shawnee High School.

LIMA — A Mercy Health physician is urging residents to take precautions for tick bites, as Lyme disease becomes more prevalent in Ohio.

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — James Morris has been named as principal at Shawnee High School, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the school district. His hiring was one of several leadership changes approved at the June meeting of the district’s board of education.

COLUMBUS — Allen, Auglaize and Putnam counties will receive more than $7.5 million collectively as their share in more than $328 million in infrastructure funding statewide. That figure eclipses $8.5 million when Mercer and Van Wert counties are factored in.

The Fourth of July, in the tongue-in-cheek estimation of Lima newspaperman Albert C. Truitt, just wasn’t what it once was.

Americans are in a sour mood these days. Democrats, Republicans and independents can’t agree on much. Yet, there’s a sweet spot on Capitol Hill where everyone shares a moment of bipartisan bliss.

If you’ve ever wondered just how many of us there are who participate in the affairs of the living at any moment in time, there’s actually a website, worldometers.info, which provides a ticker with a rolling count. There are 8,111,304,849 of us, although those last three digits bounce up and down constantly, depending on who’s winning the ongoing competition between joyous birth and sorrowful death.

You may not remember William Safire, but I lived in fear of him. He was a nationally syndicated columnist who wrote about other writers’ writing gaffes.

SPENCERVILLE — The Village of Spencerville is under a boil water advisory until further notice, according to the village’s Facebook page.

GAINESVILLE, Fl. – Trevor Bassitt has dreamed of competing in track and field at the Summer Olympics for a long time.