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By Melanie Speicher

LIMA — The way we view the world is through one very important organ: the eyes. On April 8, residents will have an opportunity to watch a total solar eclipse. Experts recommend each person wear glasses to protect themselves as they experience history.

TROY — With such an extremely rare opportunity to see a total solar eclipse in the region April 8, visitors are sure to pour into numerous local cities in the pathway of the eclipse.

LIMA — Animals and nature react interestingly to phenomena like solar eclipses.

SIDNEY — What’s better than having a birthday party with all your friends present? Having your birthday on April 8 as the total solar eclipse happens throughout Ohio.

LIMA — As career highlights go, the total solar eclipse that will cast surrounding counties into approximately four minutes of total darkness on April 8 is very much in Joel Steinmetz’s wheelhouse.

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon. Another year, the company said it planned to roll out a “scratch and sniff” feature on its search engine.

TROY — The Miami County Prosecutor’s Office has approved the closing of the Daisy Shelton homicide case which occurred in 1964.

Northwest Ohio is gearing up to celebrate the celestial anomaly of a total solar eclipse with a totally full calendar of area events.

With an estimated 139,000 to 556,000 visitors expected to come to Ohio to witness the total solar eclipse, area officials wanted to be ready to roll out the welcome mat.