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Liberty Township asks for cemetery input at meetings

Posted by Staff on Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Liberty Township made the following announcement on Facebook on Sept. 16:

It has been brought to our attention some unhappy people regarding the cemetery’s through social media. If you have an issue or concern with any of the cemetery’s or township roads, please come to a meeting. Every 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at the township office. 110 E. Buckeye (beside Kenny the barber).

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Roundabouts improve traffic safety in northwest Ohio

Posted by Staff on Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Local stats demonstrate design effectiveness

The Ohio Department of Transportation is recognizing National Roundabouts Week as "a time to celebrate a simple engineering design that has dramatically improved the safety of intersections throughout the country."

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Iconoclast 2.0 celebrates 3rd anniversary

Posted by Staff on Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Connect with the Icons using our new form: Share News - Media Release Maker

By Paula Pyzik Scott, Icon editor-owner
Phone 567-400-4266, email [email protected]

I am celebrating three years as the owner-editor of the Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon. Golly, how time flies.

Looking forward, I expect time will continue flying. So I’ve got a new bee in my bonnet: to improve how the Icon generates and reports news in Ada. The Icons have one employee, me, and a few “stringers.” And I don’t think that’s a sustainable business model.

My goals are to increase the Icons’ “bandwidth” while keeping the news free and the ads affordable by:

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Get local news by email: 52 readers subscribe to the Ada Icon

Posted by Staff on Monday, September 16, 2024

The Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon are FREE thanks to our advertisers! See our advertiser directory HERE.

By Paula Pyzik Scott

Sometimes email gets a bad rap. And sometimes it gives you just what you asked for, like an Ada Icon daily email update.

The Ada Icon currently has 52 email subscribers and the Bluffton Icon has 390 email subscribers.

Subscribe HERE.

The email update provides a daily listing of linked articles as well as links to:

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2024 Harvest and Herb Festival Queen Court announced

Posted by Staff on Monday, September 16, 2024

The Ada Area Chamber of Commerce has introduced the members of the 38th Annual Harvest and Herb Festival’s Queen Court.

Starting from the left, Victoria Rausch, Alexandra (Lexi) Poling, Contessa (Tessa) Griffith, Katelynn Metzger, Aidra Preston and Jillian Allison.

The Ada Harvest & Herb Festival Queen will be crowned in a 12:00 p.m. ceremony on September 21 at the historic train depot.

The chamber commented, "Thank you to all these amazing young women for participating."

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Ada council meets September 17; refuse and utility rates on agenda

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, September 16, 2024

This public meeting may also be attended via Zoom link HERE.

The Village of Ada Council will meet on Tuesday with this slate of agenda items.

Legislation includes a new resolution to accept the Bid of Neptune Equipment Company Inc. for the Village of Ada, Ohio Water Meter Replacement Project. Some 1,880 residential, commercial, and industrial water meters are included in this plan.

The 49-page packet provides the following

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