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Meagan Keith and her children walked slowly along the fence line of the Somerset Area High School football field inspecting each and every Somerset Hometown Hero banner on display Saturday

Here are The Advocate's 20 Under 40 honorees for 2023, the 10th year of the award. There were 45 people nominated for consideration.

Sheryl (Sherrie) Lynn King-Zagrodnichek passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by loved ones 29 September 2023 after a short, but fierce, fight with glioblastoma....Click for more.

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Reminisce: Forgotten towns of Allen County By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News Watt Town or Solar city was bounded by Third Street, Greenlawn Avenue, Fourth Street, Metcalf Street and the Lake Erie & Western Railway. Many workers from the Solar Refinery lived there. In 1922, the residences were leveled to make way for an expansion at the Lima Locomotive Works. In June 1882, Jacob D. Watt, a dry-goods merchant, platted what was known as Watt Town or Solar City. Watt left Lima by 1888, and in 1...