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The Icon Weekend edition is now posted. Open the attachment at the bottom of this story for information about events taking place in the Icon viewership area next week.

Judge Randall Basinger, Putnam County Common Pleas Judge, running for the 17-county 3rd District Court of Appeals, is the featured speaker for the Hardin County Democrat’s annual Kick-Off dinner.

The dinner is Saturday, July 30, at 6 p.m. at the Goshen Grange Hall, 18977 County Road 120, corner of Hardin County Road 120 and Township Road 205 east of Kenton.

Judge Basinger has also served as an appellate judge assigned by the Supreme Court on the 11th and 8th District Courts of Appeals on approximately 200 cases.

Ada High School varsity fall sports schedules are listed on the Icon's sport calendar. The Icon has posted August and September contest for football, volleyball, girls' soccer, boys' soccer, boys' golf, cross country and girls' tennis on the calendar.

October and November games will be posted soon.

To access the calendar place your cursor over the "calendar" on the black scroll bar at the top of the home page. The "sports calendar" box will drop down.

Click on it and the sports calendar will appear.

You can also access the sports calendar by clicking here.

It's a beautiful summer day in downtown Ada...and look at those gas prices. $2.05.9. And, don't be surprised if you see Bluffton vehicles filling up in Ada. Bluffton's Main Street price is $2.14.9.

Apollo Career Center board of education will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 15, at Apollo.

One of the items on the agenda is to accept a bid from Cardinal Bus for a 72-passenger school bus at $75,178.

The entire board agenda is in an attachment at the bottom of this story.

FOLLOW STORY FROM WWW.NLF.COM - According to NFL spokesman Michael Signora, the league will use microchips in footballs during the preseason as part of the next phase of the Next Gen Stats player tracking project.

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A chip will be placed in every ball during the preseason.

Following the preseason test, the league's Competition Committee will review the results to determine how the balls performed along with the potential uses of the data collected, Signora said.

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