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It’s that time of year again – the making of the Valentine’s Day box. Listen, I know they say that we will miss these kinds of things one day, but I am not sure that day will come for me when it comes to Valentine’s Day boxes. I am literally terrible at them.

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

LIMA — Tamie Wilson, Democratic candidate for Congress, is holding events around Lima as she prepares for the March primary election.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — President Joe Biden on Friday surveyed the federal cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, more than a year after an explosive fire following the derailment of a train loaded with hazardous chemicals and saw up close the lingering hostility from victims still angry that he waited so long to visit them.

LIMA — The Hesseling & Sons company has a new building and a new name. A ribbon cutting was held Friday morning to commemorate the new changes. The business, Hesseling Range Firearms & Gunsmith, is now located at 3787 Elida Road, Lima.

LIMA — Jurors in the trial of Travon Thomas, charged with running a large-scale narcotics distribution network in Allen County, deliberated for less than an hour Friday before finding the Lima man guilty of all 10 felony charges against him.

LIMA — Police arrested an 18-year-old Lima man in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl earlier this week.

ELIDA — Former Elida schools board president Brenda Stocker has a message for her successors: “You have fences to mend.”

Most area conferences crowned their girls basketball champions on Thursday night.

The day after I turned 70, I got an email urging me to buy burial insurance.