Meet Luke, He will be available for adoption on April 27 at 9am. Can you provide Luke his forever home?
To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.
Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.
The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.
KENTON - The Ada baseball team fell 11-1 at county rival Kenton Wednesday evening.
The Bulldogs drop to 3-10 overall after their sixth consecutive defeat. The Wildcats upped their record to 5-6 with the victory.
Kenton scored in five of their six innings at bat. They built a 4-1 lead after four frames, then put it away with three in the fifth and four more in the sixth to invoke the 10-run rule.
Ada was out-hit, 6-3. Zac Swaney, Aaron Evergart and Austin Amburgey each singled for the Bulldogs. Swaney and Jacob Morgan each stole a base, and Morgan tallied the lone Bulldog run in the fourth.
KENTON - The visiting Ada softball team shut out Hardin County rival Kenton 4-0 in a non-league battle Wednesday evening.
The Lady Bulldogs improved to 10-5 overall with the non-league victory. Kenton dropped to 5-6 with the loss.
Freshman Leona Dalton hurled a complete-game shutout to earn her eighth win this spring. She struck out three, walked four and scattered five hits over seven innings.
Ada scored one run in the second inning and three more in the third frame to comprise all the runs in the game.
ADA - The Ada boys tennis team lost a close 3-2 battle to visiting Clyde in their second round match of the northwest quadrant in the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association Div. II state tournament.
The match was played on a sunny Wednesday evening at Ohio Northern University's Marmon tennis courts.
The Bulldogs fell to 6-1 with the defeat. Talented Clyde had to beat Celina in a suspended first round match at ONU before taking on Ada, so they came away with two wins and a berth in the northwest quad semifinals.
Members of the Ada Tree Commission accepted a Tree City award from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources meeting held in Upper Sandusky. This is the 37th consecutive year that Ada has received the award.
Pictured, from left, are commissioners Norm Rex, Jamie Hall, Angela Polachek, Don Traxler and Mark Bricker.
ONU sophomore Shane Olsen (White Bear Lake, Minn.) scored his second career hat trick to lead the Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team to an 11-9 victory over Otterbein in a battle of league leaders on a beautiful Wednesday evening at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The Polar Bears improve to 13-2 overall and stay in a first place tie with John Carroll in the Ohio Athletic Conference with a 6-1 mark.
The Cardinals fall to 8-7 and move one game behind ONU and JCU with a 5-2 league record.
