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The Shred-A-Thon returned to the Area Agency on Aging 3 to help protect the community’s identity. At its Allentown Road location, dozens of cars drove through to drop off sensitive documents such as check stubs, medical forms and receipts containing names, addresses or Social Security numbers.

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Lima police, fire, and EMS responded to a crash at a busy intersection Monday afternoon. Just after 3 p.m., a Volkswagen and an SUV collided at the intersection of Allentown and Cable Roads in Lima. The Volkswagen suffered front right damage, and the SUV sustained damage to its right side with airbag deployment. No one was injured in the crash. Traffic was briefly redirected as crews cleaned up the scene.

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December 6, 2024, Press Release from U-Haul Moving & Storage of Lima: LIMA, Ohio — U-Haul® recently completed its adaptive reuse of the former Kmart® building at 2200 Allentown Road, and is now serving customers at the new home of U-Haul Moving & Storage of Lima. The 13.4-acre property was acquired in 2023. U-Haul opened for business at the 104,685-square-foot facility on Nov. 18. Implementation of the U-Haul Adaptive Reuse program led to the ecofriendly repurposing of a vacant big-box store into a state-of-the-art retail, moving and self-storage facility that offers 700 indoor climate-controlled storage units with high-tech security features at affordable price points.

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A man is now in the hospital after his dump truck flipped over on Allentown Road on Wednesday afternoon. The Lima Police Department and the American Township Fire Department were dispatched to the scene around 2 p.m. According to police, the man was driving at a normal speed as he turned into the Walmart parking lot. However, the shift in the load caused the truck to overturn. He was transported to Mercy Health-St. Rita's with minor injuries. He'll be cited for a violation of an unsafe load.