Three players from the highly successful Ada softball squad were named first team All-Blanchard Valley Conference in voting recently conducted by the league coaches.
Overall, five senior Bulldog girls and one sophomore were honored by the league. The 2025 team set an Ada program record for wins in a season with 22, and placed third in the 11-team BVC.
JENNA BASSITT
Bulldog senior pitcher/leadoff hitter Jenna Bassitt was named first team all-conference for the fourth straight year. Her initial three first team all-league seasons occurred while Ada was a member of the Northwest Conference.
By Cade Baughman, Student Pharmacist and Karen L. Kier, Pharmacist
ONU Healthwise Pharmacy
Cramping your style is an idiom used when you are asking someone if your activity is preventing them from acting naturally or enjoying their time. The idiom is believed to have started in the early 1900s as a saying to impede or restrict one’s actions or expression. The word cramp was used intentionally due to the pain caused by leg cramps. Leg cramps can definitely restrict your actions and style.
At the Icon home office, the clematis are in bloom. Due to weather conditions or benign neglect, this plant has triple its usual flowers. Hooray for Bulldog and Beaver purple.
The 57th annual Bluffton Festival of Wheels presented by the Bluffton Lions Club will take place on Friday, July 13 with parts of downtown Bluffton closed to traffic beginning at 1:00 p.m. (rain or shine). The show ends with a cruise down S. Main St. at 8:00 p.m. See the attached poster and details below for the full schedule of events.
Registration for Antique Cars, Classic Cars, Trucks, Tractors, Fire Engines and Motorcycles begins at 1:00 p.m. Dash plaques will be provided to the first 280 registered; the fee is $12.00.
The event will include a DJ, food trucks and 50/50 Raffle.
JUNE 10 MEDIA RELEASE__The Ada Exempted Village School District is among thirty-one governments, businesses, schools, and nonprofits in northwest Ohio receiving a total of $1.2 million in Recycle Ohio Grants. Funding will provide litter prevention and cleanup programs, education and outreach, scrap tire collections, recycling market development, and expansion of recycling facilities and infrastructure.
JUNE 10 PRESS RELEASE VIA FACEBOOK__On June 7th, 2025 at approximately 11:39 p.m. an Ada Officer on patrol attempted to make a traffic stop on a vehicle he observed to be traveling at a high rate of speed in the 600 block of West North Avenue.
The vehicle failed to stop continuing westbound. The vehicle turned South onto County Road 25. At State Route 309 the Ada Officer lost sight of the vehicle, but it was located by an assisting Deputy from the Hardin County Sheriff's Office.
