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Story-swap: Bluffton cyclist rides the equivalent of the distance around the equator

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, May 29, 2022

This week we sent Bluffton readers our Jane Helser story and offer in return this Bluffton Icon article about Mike Rhonemus, who recently went to great lengths riding area roads and trails. Note: The July 16 Ride to Remember passes through and has a rest area in Ada.

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Spring Fever Follies: Together We Got This

Posted by Paula Scott on Sunday, May 29, 2022

On May 20, Ada High School presented the Spring Fever Follies talent show with a program titled Together We Got This. (Program attached HERE.)

MC Jillian Allison introduced the performers and broke the ice by roaming the audience and grilling select individuals on "What is your favorite thing?" about her, Jillian, and providing a response in return.

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Book Review: Shadows Reel

Posted by Staff on Sunday, May 29, 2022

By Robert McCool, Icon columnist

This is the latest book in the impressive string of twenty-two Joe Pickett novels by C. J. Box. Shadows Reel (Random House, ISBN: 978-0-593-55635-1) is part of the long tangled story of the Pickett family and their friends. Although it can be read as a stand-alone book, it is enriching to know about the characters’ lives from previous novels. Regardless, these books are about Joe Pickett, a game warden in the state of Wyoming. 

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Bulldog Grose 7th in regional hurdles

Posted by Staff on Saturday, May 28, 2022

By Cort Reynolds

Several Ada track and field team members competed in the Div. III region 10 meet Wednesday and Friday at Port Clinton.

Sophomore Julian Grose finished seventh in the boys 300-meter hurdle finals to post the top Ada finish after coming in sixth in preliminary heats Wednesday.

Grose tallied the two points Ada scored in the meet.

Lady Bulldog junior Courtney Sumner ended up 12th in the girls long jump finals Friday with a best leap of 14-11.25.

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Cory-Rawson students win Paint the Plow by a landslide

Posted by Staff on Saturday, May 28, 2022

Hancock County’s Cory-Rawson High School took home both the ODOT choice award and people’s choice award in a clean sweep of the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) District 1’s annual Paint the Plow contest. The plow’s artwork honors Bluffton Police Department Officer Dominic Francis.

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Favorite things

Posted by Paula Scott on Saturday, May 28, 2022

It was a week for getting rained on and for the blossoming of roses. Anyone else humming a few bars from The Sound of Music?

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