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2015-16 Ada High School yearbooks are in

Pre-orders are at high school office
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The 2015-2016 Ada High School yearbooks are in, just in time for Christmas.

Pre-ordered yearbooks are available for pick up in the high school office anytime between 7:30 and 4 p.m.. on school days.

The yearbooks will also be available for purchase or pick up at the home boys' varsity home game on Friday, Dec. 16.

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ONU law grad earns Fulbright-Clinton Student Award

Anne Mulhern is third ONU student recipient
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Anne Mulhern, a recent graduate of the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, has been selected for a prestigious Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship beginning this fall.

She has been assigned to work in Timor-Leste’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as a member of the Fisheries Inspection Department. Also known as East Timor, Timor-Leste is a southeastern Asian nation that occupies half of the island of Timor, just north of Australia.

The Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship program provides opportunities for U.S. citizens to serve in professional placements in partner governments.

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Go ahead and bring home a bag of cranberries

Try the Icon Cranberry Faux Apple Pie
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 14, 2016

As a sometimes impulse shopper, cranberries call me from their seasonal spot on the grocery shelf usually in mid-December. This year I answered the call.

But, because cranberries grow up in a bog you don’t just pop them into your mouth like candy or popcorn. They apparently need to be baked to eliminate the bog effect.

And unless you act decisively, the bag of berries ends up in the back of the ‘frig until Easter.

Not this year.

Visions of a cranberry-based pie danced in my head as I held the two-cup bag of Michigan bog boys.

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It's a white Christmas at Hays Insurance

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Chad Hays decorates a tall, white Christmas tree at Hays Insurance, 202 S. Main. For a second view open the next photo. (Monty Siekerman photos)

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$347,000 low bid on Ream Street, $260,000 low bid on Eric Wolber project

Council will act on bid acceptance soon
Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 13, 2016

By Monty Siekerman
Village officials recently opened bids for the Ream Street sewer project and improvement of part of Eric Wolber Avenue in Grass Run Industrial Park.

Zee Contractor's bid of $347,000 was the lowest of three bids for the sewer project. Zee is from Ottawa.

Hohenbrink Excavating's bid of $260,000 was the lowest of 10 bids submitted for the Eric Wolber project. Hohenbrink is from Holland, Ohio.

Eighty percent of the cost of the sewer project and 88 percent of the cost of the street project will be paid for by state grants.

Council has not met to decide the winning bidders.

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Robert Fleming was an associate professor at OSU

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Robert D. Fleming, 73, died on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, at 12:28 a.m. at Otterbein Cridersville Nursing Home, Criderville, Ohio.

He was born on Sept. 20, 1943, in Bluffton, Ohio to Gerald R. and Dorothy J. (Smith) Fleming who preceded him in death. On Nov. 1, 1963, Robert married Linny K. Plate and she survives in LaFayette.

Robert was an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University for 38 years as a Farm Management Specialist. He was a member of the LaFayette Congregational Christian Church. He was an avid OSU sports fan with season tickets to their football and basketball games. He was a former member of the Farm Bureau and an avid golfer at Colonial Hills.

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