The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce website has a new look as several features were recently added, according to David Dellifield, chamber board president.
The site now includes:
• Harvest and Herb booth registration can be made online.
• Calendar of Ada upcoming events is added. The information from this calendar comes directly from the Ada Icon’s calendar.
• A photo gallery showing various photos from around the community are also on the site.
A gay man active in the Human Rights Campaign and a woman lawyer from the Ohio Attorney General's Office discussed discrimination and implicit bias during a forum at the law college on Tuesday.
Susan Sharkey, senior assistant attorney general of the civil rights section of the Ohio AG Office, told of cases involving discrimination, how the cases were resolved, and what the results of the ceases mean for other disputes going forward. As a side note, her boss, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, received his law degree from ONU.
COLDWATER - The Ada boys basketball team endured a cold shooting night and fell to New Bremen 65-31 in Div. IV first round sectional action Tuesday night at Coldwater.
With their sixth consecutive defeat, Ada ended its season with a record of 4-19. Meanwhile, the Cardinals snapped a nine-game losing skid and improved to 2-21 following the win.
The Cards advance to face second-seeded Midwest Athletic Conference rival Fort Recovery (15-7, 6-3 MAC) in the second round Friday, March 3 at approximately 8 p.m. in Coldwater.
Last fall, the Ohio Northern University Center for Democratic Governance and Rule of Law received a $2 million grant from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State to organize and administer the Afghanistan Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Program for 2017 and 2018.
On Jan. 19-25, more than 90 Afghan law students and 18 faculty coaches gathered in Kabul, Afghanistan, to participate in the Jessup competition.
Three Ohio Northern wrestlers were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in wrestling for the 2016-17 season on voting conducted by the league's seven head coaches.
Sophomore Gavin Nelson (Oregon/Clay) and freshman Nate Barcaskey (Moon Township, Pa./Moon Area) were named First Team All-Conference and junior Seth Meyer(Defiance) was a Second Team All-OAC selection.
The Polar Bears finished the season with an 11-4 record and were third in the OAC with a 4-2 league mark under 29th-year head coach Ron Beaschler.
Nelson was 23-12 at 157 pounds on the season and posted a 5-1 record in the OAC regular season matches.
The Ohio Northern men's track and field team moved to No. 31 in the sixth weekly United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association power rankings.
The Polar Bears are 47-16 overall.
Wis.-LaCrosse came in at No. 1 with 135.61 points while Wis.-Whitewater took second place with 113.55 points
