To get to the Motor City Bowl, BGSU needed to pass a major hurdle - stop the number 14 team in the nation - Northern Illinois. The Falcons did so, and here's some photo highlights of the game played last week.
Donald Traxler took the photos and will follow the Falcons to Detroit.
John R. Nelson, 69, died Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, at 12:15 a.m. at his residence in Lima, Ohio.
He was born on Aug. 16, 1944, in Lima, Ohio, to Ralph and Freda (Curl) Nelson and they preceded him in death. He had been married to Sally Doda of Holgate. He then married Linda Sousley Roberts on Oct. 24, 2003, and she survives in Lima.
Heworked at Long's Marathon in Ada while in high school. After graduation he worked at Peerless Gas in Dunkirk and also at Lima Baldwin Hamilton. He then began his career in communications at United Telephone Service out of Lima. He retired in 2006 from Alltel Wireless in Maumee. He served in the Army National Guard from 1967-1973.
It’s Sunday in Ada, Ohio. The typical church scene unfolds with gathering people and a sense of waiting for the Christmas celebrations to begin, waiting a bit longer for the adornments of poinsettias and candelabra, waiting for the greens and nativity set, and waiting for all the special touches that come once a year.
By Donald Traxler
Heath Jackson, Ada High School graduate and BGSU red-shirt junior wide receiver, scored one of BG's five touchdown receptions when the Falcons soared over the Northern Illinois Huskies 47-27.
The Falcons are the Mid American Conference Champions for the first time since 1992. This is their first-ever win in a MAC Championship game. It is the 11th MAC Championship for BG.
Northern Illinois entered the game ranked 14th in the nation and were on their way to a second BCS game in a row until they ran into a flock of Falcons who were determined to end a three-game losing streak to the Huskies.
Senior Cenzie Yoder became the 12th player in Ohio Northern women's basketball history to score 1,000 career points, as the Ohio Northern women's basketball team defeated Muskingum 81-71 on Saturday afternoon at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears improve to 6-2 on the season and 1-2 in the OAC, while the Fighting Muskies fall to 2-5, 1-1.
Yoder stepped up and drained a free throw with 3:10 left in the game for her 1,000th career point.
The year is fast drawing to a close, but the Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to know that they still have time to take action for the 2013 tax year. The IRS offers eight year-end tax moves and three additional tips that will help make things a bit easier come tax return filing season early next year.
Bluffton Center for Entrepreneurs has announced prize money and seminar dates its 2014 Ropp Triplett Business Plan Competition.
First place prize is $5,000 in business start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Second place is $1,000 in start-up costs and a one-year BCE client program membership. Third place is a one-year BCE client program membership.
AN APPLICATION FORM IS IN AN ATTACHMENT AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS STORY.
This is BCE’s fifth business plan competition and it recognizes the late Ropp Triplett, long-time Bluffton industrial leader and entrepreneur.
Bet you thought there was only one Ada in the world.
Think again.
There’s only one Ada, Ohio, but there may be as many as 15 communities carrying the name “Ada” sprinkled around the U.S. There’s also a handful of townships, counties and lakes called “Ada.”
And, there’s an Ada Township in Ghana, Africa.
Some of the Ada’s that we’ve discovered bear very little information, because they are smaller than our own Ada. The Ada cities larger than us, of course, have lots of information.
Here's three important reminders from the Ada Public Library:
• There will be no storytime this week.
• The second annual Silent Auction runs through this Saturday - all proceeds go directly to the Library, helping to ensure free library programs for all ages in 2014 - stop by and put in a bid while you stay have the chance.
• Feet for Fines (your donations of new shoes, gloves, scarves, or socks, in lieu of fines $5 or less) also runs through this Saturday.Stop in and make a donation as all donations help youth in need in Hardin County.
