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ONU students craft a shed for playground fun and games

Ada Elementary School gave a big shoutout to ONU Engineering Education for "bringing our playground dreams to life!" Professor Todd France and his students crafted a custom playground shed, with input from Ada teachers and recess monitors. Hensel Ready Mix generously donated all the concrete. From Ada Bulldogs Facebook.

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ODA will begin aerial treatments for spongy moth

Posted by Staff on Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) will soon begin aerial treatments to control populations of the Spongy Moth (formerly Gypsy Moth), an invasive species, in Ohio.

Treatments will be applied in Hardin County as well as in Auglaize, Fairfield, Hocking, Knox, Licking, Logan, Vinton, and Washington counties.

Applications are tentatively scheduled for mid-June, weather permitting. Treatment dates and information can be found on ODA’s Spongy Moth webpage.

Applications are administered using a low-flying yellow aircraft, approximately 100 feet above the treetops.

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Bulldog track & field 3rd at county meet

Posted by Staff on Wednesday, May 1, 2024

By Cort Reynolds

DOLA __ The Ada High School track and field teams each finished a solid third in the annual six-team Hardin County meet at Hardin Northern Tuesday.

Riverdale captured the girls team crown, while Kenton won the boys title.

Ada senior standout Jackson Brown won the 110 high hurdles, the 200- meter dash and took second in the 100 meters to pace the Bulldog boys.

Sophomore speedster Jordyn Smith finished second in the 100 meters to post the top Ada girls finish.

Top Ada girls finishes:

Girls 100 meter dash

2nd Jordyn Smith 13.45

Girls 400 meters

3rd Jordyn Smith 65.57

Girls 300 hurdles

3rd Mariah King 51.95

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Bulldog softball out-slugs W-G, wins 8th straight

By Cort Reynolds

WAYNESFIELD – The visiting Ada High School softball team scored a whopping 11 runs in the sixth inning to break up a close game and beat Waynesfield-Goshen 21-8 in a wild non-conference contest Tuesday evening, April 30.

Beruldsen talk about International Women's Flag Football

On Thursday May 2, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Dicke Forum, Phi Beta Delta, the honorary for international scholars, will host a talk by Diane Beruldsen of the International Women's Flag Football Association.

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By Paula Pyzik Scott

For the upcoming weekend of May 4-5, I'd love to be a non-fiction Hermione Granger or at least to borrow her magical time turner that allows her to be in more than one place at once.

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Sautter returns to coach Bulldog boys basketball

Posted by Staff on Tuesday, April 30, 2024