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Village of Ada helps grow interest in the urban forest

Ada earns continued Tree City USA designation

By Paula Pyzik Scott

Last week the Village of Ada Tree Commission sent third graders home with three-year-old river birch seedlings. The bagged, slime covered infant trees will grow fairly rapidly and have the potential to become 40+ foot trees with papery bark and yellow fall color.

Make way for brewery development

Recent demoliton work on E. Buckeye in Ada has created a partial blank canvas for the creation of the Old Route 69 Brewery which plans to provide "craft beer, food and family-inclusive entertainment." The project now entails use of the Armory and the former Cole Motor Sales location.

ODA will begin aerial treatments for spongy moth

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) will soon begin aerial treatments to control populations of the Spongy Moth (formerly Gypsy Moth), an invasive species, in Ohio.

Bulldog softball out-slugs W-G, wins 8th straight

By Cort Reynolds

WAYNESFIELD – The visiting Ada High School softball team scored a whopping 11 runs in the sixth inning to break up a close game and beat Waynesfield-Goshen 21-8 in a wild non-conference contest Tuesday evening, April 30.

Bulldog track & field 3rd at county meet

By Cort Reynolds

DOLA __ The Ada High School track and field teams each finished a solid third in the annual six-team Hardin County meet at Hardin Northern Tuesday.

Riverdale captured the girls team crown, while Kenton won the boys title.

Ada senior standout Jackson Brown won the 110 high hurdles, the 200- meter dash and took second in the 100 meters to pace the Bulldog boys.

Sophomore speedster Jordyn Smith finished second in the 100 meters to post the top Ada girls finish.

Top Ada girls finishes:

Girls 100 meter dash

2nd Jordyn Smith 13.45

Girls 400 meters

3rd Jordyn Smith 65.57

Girls 300 hurdles

3rd Mariah King  51.95

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Writers and photographers wanted

By Paula Pyzik Scott

For the upcoming weekend of May 4-5, I'd love to be a non-fiction Hermione Granger or at least to borrow her magical time turner that allows her to be in more than one place at once.

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