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The new enclosed shelter house at the Ada park is moving along. Here are views from June, July and last week.

Ada Icon sports writer Cort Reynolds, recently had a column posted on Basketball Intelligence.

CLICK HERE to read the column.

The column's focus is on how and why Utah never won an NBA title despite constantly contending for over a decade.

 

To create efficient bus routes • first day of school is Monday, Aug. 24

As the school year begin soon, Ada schools ask parents to complete a brief transportation survey by Friday, Aug. 14, according to Meri Skilliter, superintendent.

“In an effort to create efficient bus routes we ask each family to complete our survey identifying your expected transportation method,” she said.

Click here to take the survey

Local author author speculates dire nightmares

Reviewed by Robert McCool
It's Monday in a sunny August blur where the world is in full bloom, the weather fine. During the past two days, and in addition to my regular weekend chores, I managed to read two speculative fiction novels where the weather is most definitively not fine.

Those books, Arctic Rising (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1921-0), and Hurricane Fever (Tor, ISBN 978-0-7653-1922-7) by Tobias S. Buckell – an author who lives in Bluffton – take place in a space where global warming is transforming our world with an undesirable outcome.

Photo by Carl Wilkerson
Story by Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School golf season is underway. From left, Dexter Woods, Jack Baumgartner, Geddes Klingler, Jacob Morgan, Drew Rush and Kamron Wilkerson.

MINSTER - The Ada golf team played a tri-match to tee off its season at the Arrowhead Golf Club in Minster.

Riverside won the event with a total of 211 strokes. New Bremen shot 217, while Ada tallied a 233 score. 

Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy student Scott Alexander of Monroeville, Pa., co-authored an article with ONU pharmacy faculty member Natalie DiPietro Mager that was published in the May 2020 edition of Ohio Pharmacist.

The article, “What Role Can Pharmacists Play in Preventive Medicine?” examines how pharmacists can best be at the forefront of the call by the National Institutes of Health to improve the implementation of preventive services and reduce health disparities.

Alexander is a graduate of Gateway High School.

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