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CORRECTED ANNOUNCEMENT
By Paula Pyzik Scott
The 39th annual Ada Harvest and Herb Festival included the crowning of the festival queen. Six high school seniors were part of the 2025 royalty court:
Photographer Mark Andreasen can be found here, there and everywhere. On September 18 he took a detour to the Bulldog boys soccer home game vs. Liberty Benton and captured these photos at War Memorial Park.
You can't go over it. You can't go under it. You could go around it. But you really ought to go through the 39th annual Ada Harvest and Herb Festival, today, Saturday, September 20 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. The festival is a program of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce and will fill Main St. from Highland to University, as well as a portion of Buckeye Ave.
The Ada Board of Education met on Thursday, September 18, 2025. The meeting was conducted by Board President Troy. Erickson.
STAFF REPORTS
High School Principal Dan Lee reported that the year had started well. Dr. Lee provided the current records for fall sports. He noted that the Manufacturing classes that were implemented this year have great attendance. In the High School there are 50-60 students enrolled in classes and the middle school will have approximately 60 students over the course of 2 semesters enrolled.
OTTAWA - The Ada High School boys golf team finished ninth out of 10 teams at the third and final Blanchard Valley Conference tournament on Friday, Sept. 19 at Moose Landing Country Club in Ottawa.
Van Buren won the BVC tournament championship by 12 shots with a total of 313 strokes. Three Black Knights finished in the top 10 individually to pace them to victory.
Liberty-Benton ended up second at 325.
The Bulldogs totaled 407 strokes, 30 shots ahead of last-place Pandora-Gilboa.
McCOMB__The visiting Ada High School football team fell behind early and lost 49-0 to McComb in a Blanchard Valley Conference contest on Friday, September 19.
The Panthers raced to a 28-0 halftime lead and scored 14 points in each of the first three quarters.
Ada fell to 3-2 overall and 1-2 in the BVC after the defeat. McComb improved to 3-2 and 2-1 in BVC play following the victory.
“We struggled to match their physical play,” said fifth-year Ada head coach Toby Smith. “We will work on being more aggressive going forward.”
