The visiting Ada boys basketball team led all the way in a 62-51 victory over McComb in non-conference action Saturday night, December 4.
Senior Cayden Murphy led the Bulldogs to victory with a career-high 25 points and six rebounds.
Ada led 15-8 after the first period and 28-17 at halftime in their first road test of the season. McComb edged within 44-37 after three periods, but the Bulldogs converted 12 free throws in the fourth quarter to hold the Panthers at bay.
The Bulldogs improved to 2-1 with the non-league road win. Meanwhile, the Panthers dropped to 0-2 with the defeat.
A first alarm structure fire emergency at 220 S. Gilbert St. (at Ballard) was called in to Hardin County dispatchers on December 4.
Ada Police Chief Michael A. Harnishfeger issued the following report on the house fire and resulting drug investigation.
"On Saturday, December 4, 2021, at 6:13 p.m. the Ada Liberty Fire Department and the Ada Police Department were dispatched to 220 S. Gilbert Street, a 3-unit apartment house on a report of an active fire.
Music education major Austin Friess rocking it as a trombone soloist with the Wind Ensemble in rehearsal for their 7:30 p.m., Dec. 6 concert at Presser Hall on the ONU campus (Livestream link).
On December 3, Ada schools superintendent Robin VanBuskirk issued the following update to student drop off procedures:
In an effort to make our student drop off process more efficient and keep students safe, we will be implementing the following procedures beginning Monday, December 6, 2021.
Students may now be dropped off at the south entrance beginning at 7:35. At 7:35 a.m. the doors will open and students will be able to wait in the cafeteria and to eat breakfast. This should help alleviate congestion in the drop off line in the morning as well as give students more time to eat breakfast.
In Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz's brand new true crime book, Bone Deep, Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case (Kensington Publishing, ISBN 978-0-8065-4197-6), the characters and story are real. The circumstances happened as portrayed.
The writing is crisp and compelling, driving the reader to keep reading without stopping, in this true tale about Russ Faria supposedly killing his wife Betsy two days after Christmas in 2011. This book is all about the truth being stranger than fiction, and as it unfolds the truth gets abused by law enforcers and the prosecuting attorney in order to rush a guilty conviction.
