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Meanwhile, for Ada Icon viewers...here's the Christmas lights of Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 26, 2015

NOTE to Ada Icon viewers: Bluffton and Ada Icons, internet sites in the same family, offer a post-Christmas switch.

The Ada Icon's "Ada's Christmas Scenes of 2015," is now also featured on the Bluffton Icon home page in the interest of Bluffton viewser.

Likewise, Bluffton Icon's "2015 Bluffton Christmas Lights Winners," is featured on Ada Icon. Please enjoy views of Bluffton at Christmas, while Bluffton viewers enjoy views of Ada at Christmas.

BLUFFTON CHRISTMAS PHOTOS AT BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.

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Merry Christmas from Ada Icon - here's your "Ada Christmas scenes of 2015"

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 24, 2015

We’ve collected holiday photos from the Icon and from two Ada Facebooks.

We put the photos in a box, wrapped them in decorated paper, tied a ribbon around the box and placed the box under your tree.

Our photos are from Ken Collins, Monty Siekerman, Fred Steiner and from the Ada school Facebook and Ohio Nothern University Theatre Department Facebook.

We hope you enjoyed these holidays scenes of Ada.

Merry Christmas from the Ada Icon!

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Now this is a white Christmas in Ada - but only in your dreams

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

If you are dreaming of a white Christmas in Ada this year, better dream on.

However, if you’d like to recall what a white Christmas in Ada resembles, these two Karen Ward photos may help get you into the Christmas spirit.

After taking a look at our feature photo above – it shows Ada on the first day Christmas, taken by Ken Collins – you can compare a green Christmas with a white one.

The white Christmas photo with this feature is taken near the exact spot of the green Christmas photo above. The only different is the white photo looks north; the green photo looks south.

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Farmers will recall 2015 this way: Rain, rain and more rain

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

It wasn’t a good growing season for farmers with floods in late spring and a dry spell in late summer. And, crop prices were down.

TOWNSHIP RAINFALL CHART IS ATTACHED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.


Liberty Township, the area surrounding Ada, had the most rain of any township in the county with 30.38 total inches. The county average was 24.7 inches.


Here's a rainfall report for the growing season, plus some comments on this year's corn harvest, from Mark Badertscher, agriculture and natural resources extension educator:

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Can you smell the pine scent?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

You can almost smell the pine scent. Ken Collins took this reflective photo of an ornament on a Christmas tree. This photo could be from almost any Ada home.

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Strong, severe thunderstorms headed this way tonight

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Scattered damaging wind gusts of 50-60 mph 
An AEP Weather Alert: Unseasonably warm, moist air will arrive in AEP’s East Utilities today ahead of an advancing cold front.

This will most likely result in a broken line of strong-severe thunderstorms crossing the utilities this evening into tonight. The winds aloft will be exceptionally strong…making it probable that some of the thunderstorms will mix down damaging wind gusts.

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