The Hardin County sheriff’s office has received calls regarding a check cashing scam affecting local residents. An ad was placed in the Kenton Times seeking Home Health Care workers. After responding to the ad, two Hardin County residents received text messages from a Katherine Dunn followed by the receipt of a check in the amount of $1650 each; mailed to the victims by priority mail.
The checks were drawn on Michigan First Credit Union in Lathrup Village, Mich. The victims were instructed to keep $400 and return the rest to an unknown address in Massachusetts.
Ohio Northern pulled away in the final 10 minutes to post an 81-60 victory over Capital in the quarterfinals of the 2018 Ohio Athletic Conference men’s basketball tournament on Tuesday evening at the ONU Sports Center.
The third-seeded Polar Bears (18-8 overall) advance to Thursday's semifinals and will play at No. 24-ranked Marietta, while the sixth-seeded Crusaders end their season at 11-13.
ONU senior Lindsey Black (Urbana/Graham) scored a career-high 17 points to lead No. 24-ranked Ohio Northern to a 76-60 victory over Wilmington in the Ohio Athletic Conference women’s basketball tournament quarterfinals on Tuesday evening at the ONU Sports Center.
The top-seeded Polar Bears (22-4) advance to Thursday's semifinals and will host either fourth-seeded Otterbein or fifth-seeded Baldwin Wallace on Thursday evening.
The eighth-seeded Quakers end their season with an 11-15 record.
ONU sophomore Cameron Marous (Brecksville) scored with 44 seconds left in overtime to lift the Ohio Northern men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 victory over Kenyon on Tuesday at the ONU Sports Center.
The Polar Bears (2-0 overall) rallied from a 5-2 third period deficit to sneak past the Lords (1-1).
Noah Archer, Ada first grader, has a great artistic career ahead of him. This creative underwater art work by Noah is one of a selection of pieces of Ada elementary currently on exhibit at Vancrest. Other pieces, which continue below are by Victoria Rausch, Paige Beckwith, Jackson Bowden and Aliyah Kober.
Ada Kiwanis members turned into book worms Tuesday at the Ada Public Library.
Actually, members of the service club pitched in to help move books back to their proper place as construction of the library’s addition and renovation nears completion.
The library has remained open for patron use nearly every day since the major expansion began late last summer.
Books were somewhat out of order as they were moved here and there, depending on the construction work for the day; however library staff could head patrons in the right direction to find what they needed.
