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By Jane Welch-Maiolo and Marie Thomas • Bowling Green News-Sentinel PERRYSBURG — It seems hard to believe that a quarter of a century has passed since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, rocked the nation.

Alex Stephenson, conservation information manager at The Nature Conservancy Vermont, injects a young elm tree with Dutch elm disease spores on May 19, 2026, in Benson, Vt. Amanda Swinhart | AP By Amanda Swinhart and Patrick Whittle • Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. — The very disease that has decimated millions of American elms in the U.S. is now being used to bring the iconic trees back.

Jillian Hatfield’s “Captivated” won the best of show in the 29th Amateur Photo Competition. LIMA — The deadline is Monday to submit entries into the 29th Amateur Photo Competition, sponsored by The Lima News, LimaOhio.com and Lima Convalescent Home Foundation. Readers can share their best photographs, with judges selecting the winners for cash prizes. Best of show earns $100, with $50 for first place in each category, $40 for second and $25 for third.

Kate Fitzsimmons, right, and Jacob Barefoot, center, gather plant material from a Kernza research field July 28 at The Land Institute in Salina, Kan. By Joshua A. Bickel and Alexa St. John • Associated Press BELOIT, Kan. — Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what’s normal.

Nichole Y. Shafer Guest Columnist At first glance, signing a deed from yourself to yourself sounds like one of those things that only lawyers could dream up to make real estate transactions more complicated. After all, if you already own the property, why would you need to deed it to yourself? The short answer is sometimes a deed that is “from you to you” can actually accomplish an important change in how the property is titled.

This week on The High School Happy Hour with Chris Howell and David Mansell, Caleb Hattery from 93.1 The Fan joined the show to take an in-depth look at Week 3 of High School football action, breaking down the following games: Van Wert 43, Bath 20 (postgame thoughts from Keith Recker, Xavier Kelly) Shawnee 28, Elida 7 Celina 30, St. Marys 28 Wapakoneta 29, Defiance 0 Columbus Grove 21, Patrick Henry 14 Allen East 32, Indian Lake 14 Marion Local 57, Delphos St. John’s 7 Additional notes on:...

The trend of the real estate market in Allen County is shown by the following report, for the week running Aug. 27 through Sept. 2. Figures reflect the selling price of the property, along with the address or lot number of same and are courtesy of Allen County Recorder Mona Losh’s Office. CITY OF LIMA Bonifas, Liesl to Williams, Josephine, 122 E. Circular St. (0.5 acres), Lima, $50,200 Hardeman, Jeremy/Lesh, Erica/Lesh, Jason/Lesh, Justin to Lesh, Jason/Lesh, Tyler, 314 S.

By David Trinko The Lima News If a cat truly has nine lives, I suspect ours is already on his fifth. Ardent readers of this column may recall I wrote about Sandy Cheeks back in May, when the all-black cat wound up inside our house’s walls after finding his way into the attic. That required cutting a hole in a wall to let the cat out and my wife showing some keen carpentry skills to make it look good as new. It was a lot of work for a cat that I never wanted, given my allergies to felines.

FICTION The Castle in the Glen by Rhys Bowen Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn. It’s 1965, and Iris’s memory is fading. She’s certain that only Emma can do justice to her novel about a murder on the Isle of Skye. When Emma ventures to Scotland for research, she discovers the story is not fiction at all but rather a true crime.

Pupils walk away from Lima’s Freedom Elementary School around dismissal time last week. Area districts look to grants to help make the trip home safer for the children in their care. Deesarine Ballayan | The Lima News SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — In January, Gary Moore’s son, then an eighth-grader at Shawnee Middle School, got hit by a car in the morning on Zurmehly Road on his way to school. Moore was on his way home from his night shift and drove up on his son lying in the yard by the school.