Join the Bay County Historic Society on Monday, January 27 at the Bay County Public Library, 898 W. 11th Street, for a special evening of history.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.

Lima Poet Laureate Laurin Wolf, reading from Garrison Keillor’s “Good Poems,” said American poetry is the truest journalism we have as she introduced “Good Poetry for Hard Times” to celebrate David ...