By Paula Pyzik Scott
Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon editor

Welcome to Ada Icon Highlights, an experiment in providing an overview and print document covering a month of AdaIcon.com news. In May 2025 I talked with a friend who regretted not tuning into the Icon more often. She had missed some obituaries and really felt like she was out of the loop.

That conversation spurred me to create monthly highlights that provide items that are of lasting interest to the community. If this is a feature you'd like to see on a regular basis, I welcome your feedback. Email [email protected] or let me know next time I see you.

Starting with August 2025, I will be providing complimentary Ada Icon Highlights to the Ada Public Library, Beatitudes, Heterick Library at Ohio Northern, Vancrest and the Village of Ada municipal offices. These are single copies for use at these facilities. Whether there will ever be a print Ada Icon Highlights for sale remains to be determined.

This issue includes some favorite summer activities as well as previews of fall attractions. Highlights will be a small slice of what appears online. In August 2025, we published 110 news items on AdaIcon.com!

I am always interested in putting more Ada in the Icon. If you are interested in freelance opportunities as a writer, reporter or photographer, please reach out to me at [email protected] or 567-400-4266.

Aug 1, Ohio Northern dedicates new mobile health clinics

Aug 2, Old Route 69 Brewery restaurant-entertainment venue opens in Ada

Aug 7, Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel knows Ada, knows football, knows Wilson

Aug 8, Ada Council hears new ideas for on-street parking issues on N. Gilbert St.

Aug 9, Board of Elections lists November 2025 candidates for school board, township trustees and village council

Aug 11, 2025 F&M Picnic sizzles with family fun

Aug 13, Ada loves an F&M Picnic Parade

Aug 12, State Patrol investigating injury crash on Reservoir Rd. at McClure

Aug 12, Ada Bulldog golfers return Rister, three lettermen under new coach

Aug 15, Talented, deep Bulldog girls soccer ready for best-ever season

Aug 15, Allen County, ODOT considering safety measures for failure to stop

Aug 16, Bulldog boys soccer reloads after big 2024

Aug 18, Bulldog volleyball looks deep, tall and improved

Aug 18, Bulldog gridders reload for year 2 in BVC

Aug 20, Village of Ada is preparing MOU for on-street parking limits on N. Gilbert St.

Aug 23, Meet your new neighbors, the ONU freshman class of 2025-2026

Aug 24, Ada School Board welcomes new teachers and staff for 2025-2026

Aug 25, Chamber spices up 2025 Made in Ada Wilson Football Festival

Aug 25, Missing woman reported found by Ada Police Department

Aug 26, Liberty Twp. Park Board adds new commissioners Hall and Fletcher