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As Valentine’s Day approached in 1892, the Lima Daily Times printed an article praising the trend toward a “higher class of work” in Valentine’s Day cards. The cards, the newspaper added, “are destined to take the place of the horrible red, blue and green affairs that have been familiar objects for a quarter of a century or more.”

File this in that bulging category, “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

LIMA — Steve Thomas, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress, stopped in Lima on Tuesday to talk about who he is ahead of the March primary election.

I sometimes wonder how accurate childhood memories are. Experts are somewhat divided on the matter; but what aren’t experts divided on?

For those of us who’ve been granted the gift of more time here on earth than was afforded to so many others, we often think of the changes that have occurred during our lives. We have seen so very much in terms of technological advances.

LIMA — Wes Allen is set to direct a new play at Encore Theatre.

LIMA — The Lima News is preparing for the darkness of the eclipse on April 8.

WASHINGTON — The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, pushing ahead after months of difficult negotiations and amid growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad.

SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — After former Shawnee Township Fire Department Chief Todd Truesdale announced his retirement in December after serving in that position since 2009, the search began for his successor, and that search culminated with a swearing-in ceremony Monday for the new chief, Austin Miller, at the Shawnee Township Board of Trustees meeting.

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