Jacob Espinosa

LIMA —GenNext campers started their Tuesday visiting Lima Memorial Health System to learn the basics of CPR, drawing blood, disease testing and the importance of washing hands.

LIMA — Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith made her latest Walking the Wards entry a special one.

LIMA — Samantha Kerner told Lima Rotary Club the most common question she gets is what people should do when they told their parents they would not leave them in an assisted living care facility but are faced with no other choice.

LIMA — The Lima Music Festival is set to return for a second year and is set to be even better than its debut last summer.

LIMA — Journey songs are a popular feature on everyone’s soundtrack to the summer.

LIMA — Lima VFW Commander Bob Stonehill said it was the right time to begin selling items from the post’s location at 124 E. Elm St.

Spring Street Jamboree to bring 3 stages of entertainment

LIMA — Mercy Health-Lima President Ronda Lehman said she was hopeful to be able to share what went into receiving the ATHENA Leadership Award at Thursday’s Women In Business event.

LIMA — FedEx Supply Chain will stop serving Lima’s Procter & Gamble distribution after a decision by P&G, a move that could cost 63 employees their jobs.

Pandora optometrist Groman celebrates 40 years in practice

LIMA — An all-star show is coming to Veterans Memorial Civic Center, 7 Town Square, at 7 p.m. Thurdsay, Sept. 11.

LIMA — Mentoring with Music was a natural idea for Jason Henderson to have.

LIMA — Winans Coffee and Chocolate now has three new partners.

LIMA — Ohio State-Lima will offer its first fully online associate of arts degree this January.

LIMA — Lima council said “yes” on a second try to approve an ordinance to provide water for a upcoming American Township data center.

LIMA — Lima Mayor Sharetta Smith called literacy the No. 1 building block for any community as she shared a proclamation recognizing Adult Education and Literacy Week and the Lima Adult Learning Center during her weekly press conference Wednesday.

LIMA — Lima’s affordable housing developer was not trying to build an organization when it started in 2000 but to build a community, New Lima-Housing for the Future’s director of development, Barbara Massa, said Wednesday.

LIMA —The goal was to raise $1.25 million for advanced diagnostic technology at Thursday night’s Journey to the Max fundraiser for Lima Memorial Health System.

LIMA — Eighty-eight percent of human trafficking victims in recovery said they were seen or treated by a healthcare provider but not recognized as a victim.

OTTAWA — More than 500 Putnam County students visited 11 manufacturers Thursday for Manufacturing Day, a visit that organizers hope will inspire some of them in their career choices.