By Grant Pepper
The 14th-ranked ONU women’s soccer team will be competing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday morning, when they will host Penn St.-Behrend at 11:30 a.m.
It will mark the program’s first trip to the national tournament in five years and the first time that they have hosted the first two rounds of the tournament since 2011.
The Polar Bears are coming off of a 17-1-2 regular season, with their only loss coming in their first game, on Sept. 1. They were an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Tournament after winning the OAC regular season and tournament titles for the first time in school history.
AHS Elementary Principal Ben Thaxton presents certificates to Paw October ticket-of-the-month winners (from left) Lily Baumgartner, Ryan West, and Derek Dennis. When an elementary student does something good, the student receives a ticket. At the end of the month, three tickets are drawn and the winners are announced
Hardin County Extenstion Educator Mark Badertscher's report on corn and bean crops as of today: The weather is turning into a foe with regards to the completion of harvest in Hardin County. Progress on soybean harvest has been slow over the past couple of weeks with the onset of rain, causing the need for dryer weather to finish the fields that are still out there. Some were double cropped beans that needed the extra time anyway to be ready. Corn harvest has continued until the latest significant rain that has caused fields to become soft. We’ll need some dryer days before harvest resu
Tim Howard votes this morning at the Ada Depot. There are 1,180 voters in the Liberty Township precinct. For this election, Ada precincts A and B are voting at Community Health Professionals. The township precinct was seeing about 25 voters an hour during the morning. (Monty Siekerman photo)
Story and photots by Monty Siekerman
Connie Fleming was named Distinguished Citizen of the Year at the 52nd Town and Gown banquet on Monday evening attended by about 200 people in McIntosh Center ballroom.
Connie is president of the Ada Library board which is now under going an $800,000 renovation and expansion.
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She has been active in the Ada First United Methodist Church for many years and currently is chair of the financial committee.
Meet Duke, Duke is a 6 month old male lab mix. He weighs 71 pounds. Can you provide a forever home for Duke?
To give a dog a forever home, contact the Hardin County dog shelter. It is located at 49 Jones Road on the west side of Kenton.
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Phone: 419-674-2209.
Generally, about 20 to 25 dogs are available for viewing.
The shelter is also the place to contact for giving up a dog, if you find a lost or stray dog, or if you come in contact with a vicious dog. It costs $20 to surrender a dog, which pays for deworming and immunizations for when it is rescued.
