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Auditions for the eighth annual Ohio Has Talent! competition will be held Nov. 14 and 15 in Van Wert.

The top 20 acts will take part in the Feb. 28, 2015, Ohio Has Talent! show at Niswonger Performing Arts Center in Van Wert. All entertainment talents are welcome – single and group acts – especially those other than singing and dancing, to provide variety for the show.

Contestants will compete for prizes of $1,000, $500 and $250 based on votes collected from the audience. Proceeds from the show benefit a nonprofit hospice center in Van Wert.

By Dusty Donley

A 28-point first half was enough to guide the visiting Ada Bulldogs to their fourth straight victory as they marched into Goodwin Field last Friday night and defeated the Allen East Mustangs, 28-22. Freshman quarterback Seth Conley threw four touchdowns, helping the Bulldogs advance their record to (5-3) overall and (4-2) in the Northwest Conference.

By Tim Glon

Senior Patrick Angle threw for a career-high 398 yards and four touchdowns to lead Ohio Northern to a 38-24 football victory at Capital Saturday afternoon at Bernlohr Stadium.

The Polar Bears improve to 3-3 overall and are 2-3 in Ohio Athletic Conference play, while the Crusaders fall to 2-4, 1-4.

Angle accounted for five scores overall, as he completed 24-of-31 passes for 398 yards and ran eight times for 34 yards and another score.

Junior Devon Price and sophomore Reed Allen each had big days receiving. Price caught 11 passes for 170 yards and a TD and Allen caught five passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns.

Since running his first marathon in 2009, David Dellifield has had a goal of running the TCS New York City marathon. When he received his guaranteed entry into the 2014 NYC Marathon through the race's lottery, he launched Send Cancer on a Run 2: All the way to the Big Apple.

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening of Russian music featuring the Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

The Northern Winds, under the direction of Thomas A. Hunt, will perform a concert of Russian music for winds and percussion. The program includes works by Gliere, Prokofiev, Kozhevnikov and Shostakovich. The soloist for the Gliere horn concerto is ONU senior Brandon Guillen, a mathematical statistics major from Lima, Ohio.

The T.J. Smull College of Engineering has received a $15,000 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund “The Lowering CO2 Emission and Making Concrete More Environmentally Friendly by Adding Limestone” project.

Under the supervision of Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Bryan Boulanger, associate professor of civil engineering, Ohio Northern civil engineering students will spend the year investigating a design to make concrete more environmentally friendly by adding limestone.

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