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BATH TOWNSHIP — Bath schools is expanding its career technical offerings following a $2 million grant from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce.

ELIDA — There are not many storylines that take precedence over a win in the district semifinals, but an injury to a star player is definitely one of them.

“Helen Jacobs New Auglaize Court Clerk,” announced The Lima Morning Star and Republican Gazette. “County’s First Woman to Hold Office Succeeds Robert C. Howell.” In a special meeting, county commissioners Frank Springer, George Sheipline and Emil Thieman unanimously elected Helen Louella Jacobs to be the Auglaize County clerk of courts on August 5, 1931.

When nature is at its worst, Americans are at their very best. Take the recent wildfires raging in Texas’s Panhandle. There are countless stories of people risking life and limb to help their friends, neighbors and even complete strangers.

LIMA — A lot of things have changed for student drivers since the pandemic began with the advent of online learning and now more changes could be on the horizon.

Several area athletes earned the right to compete in the state wrestling tournament this weekend at Ohio State’s Jerome Schottenstein Center.

The doorbell rings, I open the door and nobody is there. As scripted, I exclaim in surprise that the doorbell rang but nobody is here.

There is, of course, an anthology of jokes about fishermen and their wives. And, while some jokes diminish the importance of a wife relative to the importance of hauling in a nice small mouth bass, if you asked one of our area’s premier reservoir fishermen about his wife of 20 years, Steve Contini might just say if asked what the best catch of his life was, that would be his wife, Tina.

LIMA — Community health collaborative Activate Allen County is working to expand mental and behavioral health services in Allen County.

LIMA — A young Lima man entered into an agreement with prosecutors on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a pair of charges related to shots being fired into a city residence.