The current U.S. administration’s emphasis on coal could mean jobs and industries coming soon to the Ada-Bluffton area, although not all residents are excited about it.
One of northwestern Ohio’s untouched economic payloads is an enormous vein of Anthracite coal stretching from Sidney to Bowling Green. The coal lies beneath the pumped out natural gas and oil fields, which boomed here in the 1890s.
According to the U.S. Survey of Geology, the coal is about 200 feet under the soil. The northwestern Ohio vein was never mined because of the expense involved and because it was under oil and gas fields.
Wrong! Try this: pancake day, high school musical, Arbor Day celebration, school honors assemblies, high school and ONU graduations, lots of music recitals, Thursday dinner club, and even a blind date with a book.
It takes six pages of single-spaced type to tell the Ada April and May story of coming events.
It's all in the current issue of "Hometown Happenings," created for the Ada icon viewers by Darlene Bowers.
A second-straight near-record construction season is underway across Ohio. This year, the Ohio Department of Transportation will invest $2.3 billion into the state’s roads and bridges, just shy of the record-$2.4 billion investments made in 2014 and 2015.
This construction season will include 1,098 projects, 26 valued at more than $10 million. Workers will pave 6,945 miles of roadway – enough for a two-lane road from Seattle to Key West, and repair or replace 1,281 bridges.
The following is work scheduled to occur on state highways within the Ohio Department of Transportation District 1 which includes the counties of Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Hardin, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and Wyandot. For the latest in statewide construction visit www.ohgo.com.
Allen County
Interstate 75 both northbound and southbound, Lima, will be restricted to one lane through the work zone on Tuesday, March 28, and Wednesday, March 29, for review of pavement under warranty.
