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By Alec Keller

The Ada School Board met on Thursday, September 18 with the meeting conducted by board president Jay Salyer. The meeting agenda with documents is here.

MEDIA RELEASE__Deanna Rodeheffer, an Ohio Northern University student pursuing both a degree in civil engineering and a Land Surveying Certificate, has been selected as the recipient of Choice One Engineering's 2026 Tom Coverstone Memorial Scholarship. She will receive a $5,000 scholarship and join Choice One as a co-op student in summer 2027, gaining valuable industry experience.

MEDIA RELEASE__The Ada Barnyard 4-H Club provided the following 2026 Hardin County Junior Fair results for its participating members:

Tripp Brown
1st Place Intermediate Netherland Dwarf Buck
2nd Place Senior Netherland Dwarf Doe

Amelia Clemons
3rd Place Lightweight Duck
1st Place Jr Poultry Showmanship

Waylon Clemons
3rd Place Standard Single Hen
4th Place Jr Intermediate Poultry Showmanship

Bulldog Rister 6th, makes 1st team All-BVC

By Cort Reynolds

OTTAWA__The Ada High School boys golf team finished a solid third at the third and final Blanchard Valley Conference tournament on Friday at a nice but waterlogged course at Moose Landing Country Club in Ottawa.

Van Buren won the league event decisively with 310 strokes, followed by Elmwood in second at 358, and Ada nine shots behind the Royals with 367. Riverdale came in fourth, a mere one stroke behind the Bulldogs (368). Leipsic (381) nosed out Arlington (382) for fifth place.

Arcadia took sixth at 390, followed by McComb (416) and Pandora-Gilboa (424).

By Cort Reynolds

CRIDERSVILLE__Initially trailing by 6, the visiting Ada High School football team responded with 42 unanswered points to shellack Perry 42-6 in a non-league game on Friday, Sept. 18.

The Bulldogs rallied with two scores in the second stanza to grab a 14-6 halftime lead over the Commodores.

Ada then scored 14 points in each of the third and fourth periods to win decisively. The balanced Bulldog offense hit paydirt on its last six possessions in a row.

Ada improved to 4-1 with the road win, while Perry fell to 2-3 after the home defeat.

FROM FACEBOOK__On September 18, 2026, the Hardin County Sheriff's Office Crime Task Force served a narcotics search warrant at a residence located at 515 N. Main Street in Ada, Ohio.

As a result of the ongoing investigation and the execution of this warrant, Jesse Nichole Johnson was taken into custody and charged with Aggravated Possession of Drugs.

During the search of the property, investigators located and seized:

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