Dr. Jason Pinkney, Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, at Ohio Northern University, told members of the Ada Kiwanis Club about the ONU Observatory at this week's meeting.
He said that the ONU Observatory has a mission to educate and inspire the students of Ohio Northern University, as well as the surrounding community, about the exciting and rapidly evolving science of astronomy.
The Ada High School yearbook staff is taking registrations for a Board-Painting fundraiser planned from 6 to 9 p.m., Friday, March 22, in the Ada High School cafeteria, according to Anna Yoakam, yearbook advisor.
“The workshop fee will help raise money for the high school yearbook program,” she said.
A pre-pay and pre-admission of $50 per person is required by Monday, March 18.
“Personalized information is needed during the registration process,” said Yoakam. “We need this information to ensure that everyone’s custom stencils are ready when you arrive to the event.”
Jonathan Pitts, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Ohio Northern University, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Japan for the 2019-20 academic year.
He will teach at American Keio University and Hitotsubashi University in the Tokyo area and lecture in the East Asia and Pacific region. His previous Fulbright award was to Turkey, where he taught in the American Literature and Culture Department at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, from 2010-11.
Here's a report from the Ohio Department of Transportation concerning area road care this winter. This winter's figures are lower than last winter's.
The following is an update regarding snow and ice operations on state highways within Hardin County from November to the present. (Last year at this time figures in parentheses)
Salt used: 2,827 tons (4,181)
Liquid de-icer: 27,600 gallons (30,095)
Miles driven for snow and ice: 73,101 (80,826)
Total cost: $590,772 (720,907)
The powerful painkiller Oxycontin, widely blamed for kickstarting the nation’s opioid crisis, will no longer be newly prescribed for injured workers in the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation’s system starting July 1.
Following a recommendation from BWC Chief Medical Officer Terry Welsh, the agency’s Board of Directors voted today to drop the drug from the BWC formulary and replace it with what Welsh calls “an equally effective but harder-to-abuse drug” named Xtampza ER.
