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ONU senior Emily Richards (Delaware/Hayes) and the women's cross country team were recipients of academic honors from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches for their efforts in the classroom during the 2017 campaign.

Richards, a 2017 All-American, Ohio Athletic Conference Female Co-Runner of the Year, and All-Ohio Female Runner of the Year was named a USTFCCCA All-Academic individual for the 2017 season and earned the honor for the second time in her career.

It allows Riley Lamison to recover from an injury

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By Monty Siekerman
This strange looking bike serves two purposes.

It allows Riley Lamison to recover from an injury. Also, he can still be with his running mates on the ONU track team. Riley, a sophomore engineering student, has an injured hamstring.

Pedaling the elliptical bike helps him recover faster. He travels along with the ONU trackers as they traverse the town on foot to prepare for upcoming meets.

Winner announced at annual meeting Feb. 21 at Wishing Well

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Ada Area Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual meeting at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Wishing Well in McIntosh Center at Ohio Northern University, according to Deb Curlis, chamber director.

The meeting takes the place of the chamber’s regular monthly meeting.

The meeting will include a review of the chamber’s activities in 2017. In addition, the chamber will recognize a business of the year.

The chamber accepts nominations for that recognition until noon on Friday, Feb. 16. RSVPs for the dinner are also on the 16th. Tickets are $15 each.

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 Here's a photo of Ada's Main Street business section taken circa 1905. Icon viewer John Marshall alerted the Icon of the photo.

It appears to be Main Street, just north of the railroad. Notice trees on the east side of the street and horse and buggies parked to hitching posts.

Near the north end of the photo you can see the Methodist Church steeple.

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JILLLS stands for Jill Simons. Your find this plate in Ada on a silver Honda with an Ohio University Bobcat license plate frame.

Whereabouts of resident is unknown

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The Ada-Liberty Township Fire and EMS was called to a two-alarm fire that destroyed the residence of Hugh and Eilma Reis, 0532 Hardin County Road 80 on Sunday evening.

Hardin County dispatch received a call at approxiimately 4:21 p.m. on Sunday. The call reported fire and heavy smoke coming from the house. The caller mentioned that someone may be entrapped.

According to the sheriff's office Mr. Reis is the only persons believed to be in the houseB at the time of the fire. Earlier this morning he had not be located and his whereabouts were unknown.

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