Ada First United Methodist Church is hosting a Christmas concert in partnership with the ONU chapel on Friday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m.
The concert is open to the community. There's no cost, but organizers are asking for donations of non-perishable food items to benefit Beatitudes and the ONU Polar Cupboard.
MEDIA RELEASE__The Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) reports 11 deaths in eight fatal crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday reporting period, which began at midnight on Wednesday, November 26 and concluded at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 30.
According to preliminary Patrol statistics, at least two of the eight fatal crashes recorded during the reporting period were OVI-related. In a continued effort to lower that number to zero, troopers made 281 arrests for impaired driving and 38 for drug-related charges.
DOLA__The visiting Ada High School girls basketball team lost 40-33 to county rival Hardin Northern in their annual non-conference battle on Tuesday, December 2.
The Polar Bears built a seven-point halftime lead, and the hosts were able to maintain that margin as both teams scored 16 points in a deadlocked second half.
Ada dropped to 1-2 after suffering the defeat in their first road game. HN improved to 2-0 with the victory.
MEDIA RELEASE__Fred Steiner, formerly of Bluffton and now of Cincinnati [and the founder of the Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon], presented a program in early November 2025 in a railroad club member meeting held in the Cincinnati Union Terminal. Steiner has presented the program about railroads in Bluffton several times; it is now available on YouTube.
The presentation titled “The life of my small town changed forever when the railroad arrived” is a narrative of the three railroads that once passed through Bluffton. Those include:
The abandoned Western Ohio Railway, an electric interurban, whose rails are still embedded in concrete under Main Street
The abandoned Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad, whose station remains today as a business on North Main Street near the community swimming pool
Norfolk Southern Railroad, which today has one local round-trip freight pass through town
FROM FACEBOOK__Bluffton-based Shirley's Gourmet Popcorn Co. was excited to discover a large tin of their Classic Cheddar flavor prominently featured on an episode of the new Peacock TV comedy series, The Paper. The series is about a documentary crew covering attempts to revive a Toledo, Ohio newspaper. It has thematic and production links to The Office.
