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Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 27, 2014

Isaac Spar, Ada sixth grader and French horn player, warms up in sixth grade band rehearsal.

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Freda Neiswander, 108, was born in Ada in 1906

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, February 27, 2014

Freda M. “Fritz” Neiswander, 108, formerly of Adrian, Mich., died Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
She was born Jan. 4, 1906, in Ada, Ohio, the seventh of 16 children of Alfred and Adele (Grant) Criblez, and was raised on the family farm in Bluffton, Ohio.

She was married to Eugene C. Neiswander for 67 years, and he preceded her in death in 2001.

She was a graduate of Findlay College and worked at Michigan Central Railroad in Detroit before moving to Adrian where she was a manager at the Girls Training School.She was a former member of the First United Methodist Church in Adrian.

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Dr. Who held office hours at the library yesterday - so to speak

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Dr. Who is an alien - the last of the powerful Time Lords. An intrepid traveller, a wanderer through space and time. He is, he agrees, "a madman with a box."

And Dr.  Who fans showed up at the Ada Public Library yesterday to help celebrate the good doctor's 50th anniversary with a Dr. Who theme party.

Click here for lots of photos from the library's facebook page.

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Which came first? The bird or the egg?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

That's an amazing bird. Just check out the size of those eggs - and compare them to the size of the bird in the cage. You'll find the bird and eggs in Artists Botique on Main.

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ONU symphonic band to present spring concert, ‘In Ireland’

Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Ohio Northern University symphonic band, Northern Winds, presents its spring concert, “In Ireland,” in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m.

This program is ONU’s first large musical celebration of traditional Irish culture. The program includes the selections “The Wearing of the Green,” “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” “The Irish Washer Woman” and the ever-popular “Danny Boy.”

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Village Voice: Due to heavy snow and cold, weather village has estimated water bills

Posted by Paula Scott on Wednesday, February 26, 2014

If you have looked closely enough at your water bills over the last three months, you may have seen an asterisk (*) in the first line of the ‘Code” column. If you look on the back of your bill, you will see the asterisk means that the reading had to be estimated for that billing period.

One of the most important things we ask you to remember is that we do not estimate bills as a general rule. Our goal is to read meters every month for billing. However, heavy amounts of accumulated snow and several days of severe cold weather over the past few months have prevented us from being able to access meters.

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