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The Ada village council is scheduled to hold a regular meeting on May 3, 2022. To preview the agenga and minutes to be approved from the prior meeting, see the May 3 Meeting Packet.

Council meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month at 6:30 pm. 

Meetings are normally held in Council Chambers, located on the 2nd floor of the Municipal Building, which is located at 115 West Buckeye Ave.  Elevator service is available. 

Below is the link to the May 3 Ada council meeting via Zoom:

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School tennis team decisively beat visiting Van Wert 4-1 Thursday evening, April 28, at the park courts.

The Bulldogs improved to 3-4 with their third win in four matches. VW fell to 2-5 with the defeat.

Athletic Ada junior Brendan Jameson polished off his VW opponent quickly in two sets at second singles.

Bulldog junior Amelia Alexander gutted out a tough three-set win at third singles with hustle and mostly mistake-free groundstrokes in the match of the day. The over two-hour bout featured several long rallies and well-contested points.

By Cort Reynolds

The visiting Ada baseball team lost 12-2 to Crestview in a Northwest Conference matchup in Convoy on Thursday evening, April 28.

Ada fell to 5-9 overall and 0-5 in the NWC with the defeat. Meanwhile, Crestview improved to 9-3 and 5-1 in NWC play with the win.

Crestview plated eight big runs in the bottom of the first inning to build a big early lead. The Knights stretched the margin to 11-1 after three frames. 

Ada scored once in the fourth to slice the deficit to 11-2, but the Knights matched it in the bottom of the sixth to invoke the 10-run rule. 

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada varsity softball team lost 8-1 at league-leading Crestview in a Northwest Conference matchup in Convory on Thursday evening, April 28.

The Lady Bulldogs dropped to 3-11 and 1-5 in the NWC after the defeat. The Knight girls improved to 18-1 overall and 7-0 in the NWC with the win. 

With a win over defending league champion Lincolnview (4-1 NWC) next week, the Knights would clinch the NWC outright title.

Ada took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second when freshman Karley Wagner singled and scored. 

By Cort Reynolds

The Ada High School girls track and field team finished a strong second at the 12-team USV Ram Invitational meet Thursday, April 28, at McGuffey.

Riverdale won the girls team crown with 186 points, followed by Ada with 86. 

Allen East captured the boys team title, while the Bulldog boys came in seventh.

Julian Grose won the 300 hurdles to post the top Ada boys finish.

Bulldog sophomore distance ace Josie Phillips took second in both the 1600 and 3200-meter runs.

 

Scoring Ada finishes:

Boys 300 Meter Hurdles

1 Grose, Julian Ada 42.6

 

Girls 400 Meter Dash

Note: because Prom is on a Friday night this year, all K-12 students have at early release at 1:00 p.m.

Ada High School seniors voted for their 2021-2022 Senior Prom Court with the results below. The Icon took the attached photos on the brisk Wednesday morning prior to Prom, with the young men of the court serving as a wind break for the young women.

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