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LIMA — The Allen County Commissioners shared staff updates at Tuesday morning’s meeting and spoke with assistant prosecutor Kayla Rogers about the decision to pull back agreements for ditch projects.

Every Saturday, Henry Hartman cranked the clock outside his jewelry store to reset its 150-pound weight. For 50 years the clock helped people of Wapakoneta keep time, becoming a fixture in the town. Hartman Jewelry Company, the business that it represented, had roots even deeper with its 96 years of service to the community.

Babies can be stubborn. They alone determine when the blessed event will occur. And more often than not, they pick the worst possible time for it.

CELINA — There’s plenty at stake for Bath and Celina on Friday night.

While this year’s Olympics in Paris dubbed Noah Lyles as the world’s fastest man, the American sprinter might get some competition from John Heaphy, if it comes down to getting him to sit down and answer some interview questions about his dual mission to give back to the city that raised him and to grow his company, Good Foods Restaurants. Now, to clarify, it wasn’t that John, who I’ve known for years, is uncooperative with the media. It’s just that he’s indeed far more than a figurehead to the more than 1,200 employees who call him “Boss” in 22 restaurants across Ohio and Indiana.

Heat waves still emanate from the grill. Paper plates, smeared with ketchup, mustard and remains of burgers and hot dogs, litter the tables.

LIMA — A Lima man signed a waiver of counsel Tuesday to drop the Allen County Public Defender’s Office and represent himself in his case in the Allen County Common Pleas Court.

BLUFFTON — Defensive dominance is nothing new for Bluffton.

LIMA — John Crist has been to nearly every city in Ohio except Lima.

Associated Press