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Happy Holidays from the Ada and Bluffton Icons! From Christmas Eve to New Year's Day, the Icon websites will be in holiday mode, providing breaking news, including sports. Please continue to send us your media releases, questions, tips and advertising requests to [email protected] or leave a message at 567-400-4266.

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The Village of Ada has shared a 2026 calendar and guide for waste and recycling pickup.

Curbside Guidelines:

  • All waste must be bagged before placing in trash container.
  • Place containers at the curb on Monday nights after 6 p.m. for Tuesday morning pick-up.
  • Bulk item pickup must be scheduled 48 hours in advance by calling Rumpke at 1-800-828-8171.
  • All upholstered Items must be wrapped In plastic when set at the curb.
  • Remove containers from curb within 24 hours of collection.
  • Refer to the Village website, www.adaoh.gov for more details.

Holidays:

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FROM FACEBOOK__The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hardin County congratulated the 27 "amazine, supportive and committed community members" who took part in the December 20 Run Rudolph 5K race in Ada.

The 1st place male and female runners were Kristin Salyer and Joey Carl.

Big Brothers Big Sisters on Facebook

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By Paula Pyzik Scott

Five large wood benches will provide new seating at Ada's War Memorial Park come spring, thanks to D Squared Construction of Alger. The company has a tradition of supporting area veterans' organizations with an annual project. This year Ream- McElroy VFW Post 9381 was the recipient and, in turn, the post identified the Liberty Township park as the best location for the memorial benches.

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Happy Monday, Ada! Here are AdaIcon.com's top stories from the week that was, December 15-21. For a chronological look at all Icon content, visit AdaIcon.com/archive. 

DECEMBER 15

Merry on Main brings holiday cheer to downtown Ada

What’s new(s) at the Icons? Semiquincentennial

DECEMBER 16

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By Cort Reynolds

RAWSON__The visiting Ada High School boys basketball team dominated local foe Cory-Rawson 65-31 in a non-conference mismatch on Saturday, December 20.

Bulldog senior Zack Zimmerman tallied a game-high 19 points to pace the victors.

“We controlled the game from start to finish,” said Bulldog head coach Chris Sautter. “We had three guys in double figures, led by Zack with 19.  

”It is nice to go into Christmas winning back-to-back games and being 3-0 in the BVC,” he noted. 

Ada improved to 6-2 overall with their first road victory. The Bulldogs went 2-1 over the last five days, winning in each of the past two nights.

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