Lima City School educators and staff are ready to have fun as they gear up for the 2024-2025 school year. On Tuesday, it was a pep rally atmosphere at Lima Senior, as all of the school district staff were on hand for the school year kick-off. Besides the cheerleaders, band, and choir, nationally recognized speaker and author Jack Berckemeyer brought laughter to motivate the staff to have a great school year. 

Allen County Head Start has a waiting list of students but needs teachers to get them into the classroom. Administrators say that they have 60 students on that waiting list and need teachers to educate them. Head Start is a free program for low-income families that works with children from birth to 5 years of age. It prepares them both emotionally and intellectually to succeed in school and in life. The program had to close some classrooms last year due to a lack of educators and is hoping to get four teachers and six co-teachers.