Hardin County police departments, including Ada, will conduct targeted enforcement during November because fatalities have increased. There have been six deaths this year in six separate accidents, 50 percent the result of failure-to-yield.
The Ohio State Patrol, Hardin County Sheriff's Office, and Ada and Kenton Police Departments will focus on failure-to-yield, seat-belt violations, and distracted driving.
All Ada Public Library storytime groups are invited to join Natalie Walton at Suter's Farm for a morning hayride and pumpkin picking on Thursday, Oct. 26.
Those attending are asked to meet at 10:45 a.m. at Suter's, 12200 Pandora Rd., Pandora. Songs and a puppet show will be shared on the hayride. The cost is $4.50 per person
The Ohio Northern wrestling team was picked to finish second in the 2017-18 Ohio Athletic Conference Wrestling regular season standings in voting conducted by the league's seven head coaches.
The Polar Bears, under 30th-year head coach Ron Beaschler, received 31 points and one first place vote in the voting.
Baldwin Wallace was picked to win the league with 36 points and six first place votes. Otterbein was third with 22 points and John Carroll was picked to finish fourth with 21 points.
The Polar Bears return starters at all 10 weight classes and 14 lettermen from last year's squad that went 11-4 overall and finished third in the OAC with a 4-2 league record.
he Ohio Northern volleyball team moved up one spot to No. 20 in the eighth weekly American Volleyball Coaches Association poll, released Tuesday afternoon.
The Polar Bears (23-4 overall, 6-1 Ohio Athletic Conference) received 434 points in the poll, which is 95 more than the 349 points they received last week when they were ranked No. 21.
Ohio Northern went 2-0 last week with OAC victories over Wilmington and Muskingum.
The Ohio Northern women's soccer team jumped one spot to No. 14 in the United Soccer Coaches poll, and moved up three spots to No. 15 in the D3Soccer.com poll, both released on Tuesday afternoon.
Northern (14-1-1 overall) is ranked in both polls for the third consecutive week after posting a 2-0-0 record in the Ohio Athletic Conference last week.
Max McCrory, 7, with Frankenstein, the name he gave the pumpkin he carved and colored for the Ada Public Library carving contest. In the next photo: PJ Hull holds her decorated pumpkin that was displayed at the Ada Public Library pumpkin decorating contest. Her entry looks like a cat, so PJ dressed like a dog to complement her entry. (Monty Siekerman photos)
