September 2023

TIFFIN—The Ohio Northern women's golf team shattered the school's 18 and 36-hole team records, firing a 309-302—611 to win the 7-team Heidelberg Fall Invitational Saturday-Sunday, September 16-17 at the Fostoria Country Club.

The Basics

• Record: Ohio Northern (9-0)
• Venue: Fostoria Country Club, Fostoria, Ohio
• Par-72, 5807-yard course, featuring seven teams and 81 golfers

Ohio Northern University has jumped from No. 4 to No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Regional Colleges Midwest list for 2024. According to the publication, “These colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.” A total of 370 schools were ranked in the Best Regional Colleges Midwest category.

The report overview reads, “Ohio Northern University is a private institution that was founded in 1871. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,569 (fall 2022), and the campus size is 342 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Ohio Northern University's ranking in the 2024 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Colleges Midwest, #2. Its tuition and fees are $37,600.”

The university’s acceptance rate is listed as 54%.

By Cort Reynolds

The visiting Ada High School boys soccer team lost 3-2 to Lincolnview in a Northwest Conference match Monday evening, September 18.

The Bulldog record fell to 2-5-3 overall and 0-2 in NWC action after the road defeat.

The Village of Ada will hold a regular council meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 19 in council chambers at 115 W. Buckeye.

Agenda items include:

• A resolution regarding tax levies
• An ordinance authorizing the Mayor to assess street lights for 2024
• An ordinance assessing lots and lands abutting improvements in the Grandview Boulevard Reconstruction Project
• Requested increase in refuse collection fees
• Village sidewalk cost share revised application

The full agenda can be found at https://www.adaoh.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/combined_9.19.23.pdf/