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January 1977 brought winter at its worst to northern Ohio. In Lima, stubbornly frigid temperatures — the average for the month was about 12 degrees

Lena Nofcier and Evelyn Koffel were partners in life and literacy.As director of the Lima Public Library during a critical time in its history, Nofcier wor

Dr. Ralph E. Latimer practiced dentistry in his office at 119 E. Spring St. and promoted the study of Black history everywhere else in the community.As fou

From her fashionable hat and fur wrap down to her high heels, she looks every bit the Hollywood leading lady in the newspaper photo, stopping to smile and

Dr. Arkley A. Dalton had served Lima for more than three decades as a physician and community leader.In November 1969, one year after his death, his widow,

Dr. Arkley A. Dalton wanted to run for county coroner on the Republican ticket in 1956, but he came up short of the needed signatures to get on the ballot.

The apple tree existed before Lima, standing on the Hog Creek Shawnee reservation just southwest of its principal village, known as Shawneetown.Planted, so

By 1880, many of those who had arrived in Allen County a half century earlier, when the forest was full of wolves, wildcats, and the occasional Shawnee or

Each spring the farmer’s plow turned over the warming western Ohio soil, turning up a banquet for the birds and, often, bits and pieces of the lives

Isaiah Pillars was a teacher, lawyer and, in the years after the Civil War, a prosecuting attorney, state representative and Ohio attorney general. He coul