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By Grant Pepper

With six regular season OAC games left on the schedule, the Ohio Northern men’s basketball team is right in the thick of things in the conference title race.

 

Northern is one of four teams that now have a realistic shot at the conference trophy -- and all are within one game of each other at the top of the OAC standings. John Carroll and Marietta are both 9-3 in the OAC, while Ohio Northern and Baldwin Wallace are both 8-4. Each team has six regular season OAC games left.

 

Does this drab winter weather make you dread going out? Wish you could stay at home and cuddle up with a good book? Thanks to Libby, an ebook/audiobook app, you can checkout and read or listen to library books from the comfort of home!

Ready to give it a try? Follow these instructions:

1.) On your device, open the app store and search for "Libby" (Android users
- Google Play Store; Apple users - App Store; it is unavailable for Kindle
users at this point)

2.) Tap on "Libby, by Overdrive" and install it to your device.

By Cort Reynolds

 

KENTON - The Ada swim teams split a dual meet at area rival Kenton Tuesday night in the Hardin County YMCA.

 

The Lady Bulldog swimmers beat Kenton 97-64 while the Ada boys lost to the Wildcats, 92-53.

 

Sophomore Klava Katayama finished first in two races to lead the Ada girls, who won seven events overall, to their head-to-head team victory.

 

Up next, Ada swims in the Div. II sectionals at the Lima YMCA Saturday, February 10.

Bad Luck and Trouble will perform at Center on Central on Saturday evening. The band played at the Center last year during the inaugural Made in Ada Football Festival. The Center is located across from the Depot, festival headquarters. The band will perform from 9-11:30 p.m. on the eve of the Super Bowl.

Part of Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival

There will be a free showing of the film “Draft Day” at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Ada Theatre as part of the town’s Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival.

The 2014 sports drama film stars Kevin Costner. He plays the fictional general manager of the Cleveland Browns deciding what to do after his team acquires the number one pick in the upcoming National Football League draft.

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Did you know that the 100th day of the school year is Feb. 1?

It's listed as the first event in the February-March issue of Ada Icon Hometown Happenings. If you miss it, an elementary student will certainly inform you of this important fact.

There's lots more happening in Ada in the next two months. So much, that you'll discover it takes over five pages of single-spaced type to cover everything taking place here.

Darlene Bowers compiles Hometown Happening for the Icon. A printer-friendly copy is attached at the bottom of this story.

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