You are here

April 2020

Icon error: Ada park is open

Only the playground and the restrooms are closed

The Icon was in error in its earlier announcerment that the Ada park is closed.

Only the playground and the restrooms are closed.

Cenzie Rushton named ONU women's assistant basketball coach

She was an all-American during her ONU career

 Ohio Northern All-American Cenzie (Yoder) Rushton has been named an assistant women's basketball coach at her alma mater.

Rushton joins head coach Mark Huelsman's staff after serving as head girls basketball coach at Celina High School the past two seasons.

Rushton was a volunteer assistant coach at ONU in 2018 and also has coaching experience as an assistant coach at Findlay in 2017 and Heidelberg in 2016.

April 2-3 Hardin Sheriff's log

Here is the Hardin County Sheriff's log for April 2 and 3.

Health department updates county COVID-19 figures

Kathy Ralston of the Kenton Hardin County Health Department provided the Icon with this Ohio COVID update. As of Friday, April 3, Hardin County has one confirmed case and 12 negative testing results.

Road closed for three week

Starting Monday, April 6, Liberty Township Road 55 (between Township Road 30 and County Road 20) will close for three weeks, weather permitting, for road work, according to the Hardin County engineer's office.

 

Ada Kiwanis Club meets via Zoom on April 7

The Ada Kiwanis Club will hold an on-line meeting at noon, Tuesday, April 7. The will be meeting via Zoom.

Sorry, no Sal Walker and April Shortbread concert in Ada

It was all a figment of our imagination

Turns out that Sal Walker and his band April Shortcake, currently rising in the country music charts, will not perform this summer in Ada – or for that matter, will never perform here. 

Sad to say, but the Jamie Hall story (click here to read it) about helping a stranded group of musicians on State Route 235 north of Ada was simply a figment of our imagination that occurred hours before the clock passed midnight from March 31 to April 1. 

Republicans might call it fake news. We have no idea if any Democrat even read the story.

Interclass competition goes viral

Students will compete in essay writing, poetry, short story and dramatic reading

This announcement is from Ada High School concerning this year's Interclass contest.

The show must go on!

In light of the current coronavirus quarantine and online schooling, it seemed that the annual Ada High School Interclass contest was destined to be cancelled for the first time in over 100 years. 

Considering the tradition survived two world wars and The Great Depression, among other newsworthy events, we could not let that happen.  

However, thanks to the magic of technology, the show will go on. 

Here's there recent births from Bluffton Hospital

The following births are reported from Bluffton Hospital since Feb. 29 and all of March.

Feb. 29 – Colt Camden Wilkins, son of Eric and Jenna Wilkins, Rawson

Ohio voters will receive post cards for Ohio primary election

Ohio Secretary of State's office released the postcard that Ohio voters will soon receive as part of the effort to complete the 2020 Ohio primary election.

In-person voting on March 17 was blocked by an order from Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton to combat the spread of Coronavirus/COVID-19, following an announcement by Governor Mike DeWine on March 16 that Ohioans over the age of 65 should remain home and barring gatherings of greater than 50 people.

Pages