NORTH ROBINSON__The Ada High School swim teams competed on Saturday, January 24 at the eight-team North Central Ohio Swim League championships.
Meet host Colonel Crawford swept the boys and girls team titles. It was the 10th consecutive league crown for the Eagle girls, who rolled to the championship with 440 points. Bluffton finished a distant second at 202, while Upper Sandusky was third (168).
The Eagle boys scored 376 points to win the program's fourth NCOSL crown over the past six seasons. The Bluffton boys finished as league runner-up with 291 points, while Upper Sandusky was third at 204.
FROM YOUTUBE__Just down the street at Ada's Wilson Football factory, crews are making footballs for Super Bowl LX, to be played on Sunday, February 8 at 6:30 p.m.
VIDEO Wilson Sporting Goods on MassLive. "Super Bowl 60 is set as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet in the Bay Area in a couple of weeks, but the work to get them the actual footballs they’ll be using was done just hours after each team punched their ticket to the Big Game."
By Karen Kier
Pharmacist on behalf of the ONU HealthWise team
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Ohioans reported 715 bald eagles, like this immature bald eagle, during a January count.
MEDIA RELEASE__A bald eagle midwinter citizen survey counted 715 bald eagles thanks to 391 separate reports from Jan. 7-21 in the Buckeye State, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
With the United States’ 250th anniversary year underway in 2026, the Division of Wildlife requested the public’s help in a midwinter survey to count the national bird. Over 15 days, the agency received observations of 592 adult and 123 immature eagles.
