Trash Pickup Times in Extreme Heat: Rumpke trash collection could start as early as 4:30 a.m. Please place trash and recycling curbside the night before
Ken Collins went to a picnic with most other Ada residents. It was the 104th such event, so there's little explanation needed. Here are some of the photographs he took.
Ada schools are in session for 2017-18. Ohio Northern University is right behind. Icon viewers have noticed out-of-town cars passing through town packed with college student paraphernalia.
This is a long weekend appropriately called "Welcome Weekend," for all new students. It started this morning at 8 a.m.and runs through Sunday at 11 p.m.
Events range from Spirit Rock signing to an opening convocation, academic meetings, Operation Glow, ACE Day, ending with a movie on the Tundra.
With construction of a new addition underway at the Ada Public Library, the question from patrons is: What will it look like when it's finished?"
A library renovation overview helps answer that question. In the overview the current entrance is at the top. The addition is on the right.
Studer-Obringer, Inc. of New Washington, is the contractor for the renovation according to Rhett Grant, library director.
Funding for the renovation and addition comes from a dedicated fund.
The addition on the northeast side of the library will add some much needed space. Additional parking will be added, as well as an outdoor reading area.
The Ohio Northern men's tennis team will open its 2017-18 schedule on Sept 16-17 at the Oberlin Invitational under second-year head coach Mike Bonnell.
The Polar Bears will also play at the ITA Regionals at Kalamazoo on Sept. 29-Oct. 1 to wrap up their fall schedule.
Northern will begin its spring schedule Feb. 10 with a tri-match at Albion (Mich.) with Olivet (Mich.)
ONU will open the home portion of its schedule on Feb. 25 against Adrian (Mich.) and will open Ohio Athletic Conference play at Capital on March 30.
During the month of July, Hardin County Extension rainfall reporters recorded an average of 8.23 inches of rain. Last year, the average rainfall for July was 1.68 inches. The wet spring experienced by the county up until July was continued with an even more wet July, with several rainfall events adding to already wet soils.
This year’s July was exactly the opposite of last year, when the county received very little rain for the month.
Crop Production Services in Blanchard Township received 11.50 inches of rain for the month, the most of any of the township sites. The least rain in July, 6.10 inches, was collected in McDonald Township by Jerry Stout.
