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BLUFFTON — Bluffton schools are hosting a board meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the library of the Bluffton Elementary School, 102 S. Jackson St., Bluffton.

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LIMA POLICE
500 block of West Market Street, Lima — Officers investigated a hit-skip traffic accident Thursday.
500 block of South Elizabeth Street, Lima — A report was received Thursday of an alleged breaking and entering incident.
2450 Allentown Road, Lima — A reported shoplifting incident was investigated at the Walmart Supercenter Thursday.
1200 block of Feeman Avenue, Lima — A report was received Thursday of a breaking and entering incident.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge on Friday delayed a sentencing hearing for a man who plotted to kill military members in the U.S., with the judge saying he needed more information, including the man’s current state of mind.
It’s not uncommon for judges to ask for extra details about a defendant and a case before a hearing. Less common is for those requests to come during a scheduled sentencing, which on Friday was attended by several members of defendant Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud’s family, prosecutors, defense attorneys and FBI agents.

LIMA — The Lima City Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, at South Science Technology Magnet School, 755 St. Johns Ave., Lima.

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LIMA — The Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities Ethics Council will meet at 5:15 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities, 2500 Ada Road, Lima.

I’m going to be quiet for eight days. You did not misread that, and this isn’t the first time, either.
I’ve been going to be quiet for at least 10 years. Guelph, Ontario, will be my location of such provocation, with the specific destination being the Ignatius Loyola House Retreat Center.

LIMA — The Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities Policy Committee will meet at 4:45 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the Allen County Board of Developmental Disabilities, 2500 Ada Road, Lima.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos.
Think of them as messages in bottles meant for anyone — or anything — out there.
This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s launch of Voyager 2, now almost 11 billion miles distant. It departed from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 20, 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn.

JACKSON, N.H. (AP) — Maybe these golfers in New Hampshire didn’t yell “fore” but they might have considered “llama on the links.”
Golfers at Eagle Mountain Golf Course in Jackson were joined Monday on the sixth fairway by a llama that escaped from his pen about 2 miles (over 3 kilometers) through some woods.
The Conway Daily Sun reports that the pack animal, named Noir, was friendly and got in pictures with the golfers.

Susan Rice, national security advisor to President Barack Obama, recently said the United States could live with a nuclear regime in North Korea but failed to answer an important question. For how long?
After all, North Korean President Kim Jong Un, weird of appearance, weird of mind and downright murderous when it comes to eliminating fellow officials and relatives he does not trust, has said he just may wipe out America someday.