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LIMA — Finding a healthy balance when it comes to discipline for children can be difficult for parents, but schoolteachers and administrators also face that same dilemma when it comes to their students. A recent report from the Children’s Defense Fund of Ohio asserts that schools in the state are using more exclusionary measures for student discipline, such as out-of-school suspension and expulsion, and that this is happening more frequently to minority and disadvantaged students. Researchers expressed concern that this trend is contributing to student absenteeism rates, a trend they say contributes to the state’s “community-to-prison pipeline.”

LIMA — Andi Jo Taylor is making her solo Lima debut this weekend.

Putnam County Common Pleas Court

WAPAKONETA — More than 20 colleges and universities visited Wapakoneta High School on Monday night to get a look at more than 100 football players from the Midwest Athletic Conference and Western Buckeye League in combine drills and group workouts.

As a volunteer with the Cold War-era Ground Observer Corps (GOC), Maynard Macke was trained to identify anything that passed overhead. Macke could not identify what he saw in the sky over Putnam County on a spring evening 66 years ago.

Whenever a president wants to let down his hair these days, a brief chopper ride to Camp David in the Maryland mountains gives him all the solitude he needs.

OTTAWA — The Putnam County Educational Service Center (ESC) held an event Tuesday featuring a conversation with local educators on the need for computer science education, specifically when students try to find jobs in various business sectors.

Years ago, we would pick up our son downtown after he took the Megabus home from college. He would get in the car and we would routinely ask, “Where’s your luggage?” He would respond by holding up a small brown paper bag that most people use to pack a lunch.

When it comes to trusting your fellow humans, it’s a far different world than the one in which I grew up.

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