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By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - The Ada golf team played in a four-team Northwest Conference match Thursday at the Bluffton Golf Course.

The co-host Pirates won with 175 strokes, followed by Columbus Grove (184), Crestview (203) and Ada (211). It was the lowest team score of the season for the Bulldog boys.

Junior Dexter Woods paced Ada with a season-low score of 49. Senior Jacob Morgan was close behind with a round of 50. Andrew Rush contributed a 53, while Geddes Klingler rounded out the Ada scorers with a 59.

Kamron Wilkerson added a 60 and Jack Baumgartner recorded a 65 for the other purple and gold scores.

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Ada's population more than doubled since this past weekend. Ohio Northern University students returned to campus. One of the new fashion accessories this fall is masks. Here are two students biking near the wecome sign on College Avenue.

Beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, edamame, basil and lot of other herbs in Gray's garden

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By Jimmy Wilson
Today’s featured Ada Icon Veggie Garden belongs to Beth and Jeff Gray of East Montford Avenue. 

The Grays have had a garden for over 20 years, and grow a variety of plants including beans, tomatoes, cucumber, edamame, basil, and other herbs. 

Beth says that she tends the plants and Jeff does the cooking. Pasta with fresh pesto and cucumber salad is a favorite summer dinner.

The Ada Icon Veggie Gardens highlight vegetable gardens in the Ada area as a way of promoting self-sufficiency and agriculture education. 

Dr. Robert Alexander, expert on the Electoral College

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On Saturday, Aug. 15, at 10 p.m., CNN is set to air a new documentary titled “Count on Controversy: Inside the Electoral College,” with Dr. Robert Alexander, professor of political science and director of the ONU Institute for Civics and Public Policy, making an appearance as an expert on the Electoral College.

Alexander is one of the country’s leading authorities on the Electoral College.

He has written two books on the subject: 2019’s “Representation and the Electoral College” and 2012’s “Presidential Electors and the Electoral College: An Examination of Lobbying, Wavering Electors and Campaigns for Faithless Votes.”

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The all-NWC season schedule is attached as is a tournament playoff bracket.

By Cort Reynolds
 The Northwest Conference athletic directors met Wednesday and came up with a unique new season schedule and tournament in response to the pandemic.

The previous schedule with non-league games to start out with has been totally scrapped. For 2020, the NWC has been split into two divisons, East and West, with a short three-game pool play schedule preceding a league tournament that will guarantee each school three more games.

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The Lincoln Avenue project is winding its way west. The initial phase of the street reconstruction – to the Lima Memorial Hospital offices, is completed. This view looks west at that point.

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