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Ohio House passes comprehensive school funding formula reform

Meri Skilliter, Ada superintendent: "This plan is the first viable solution to the enduring, antiquated, and unconstitutional funding of Ohio's public schools"
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 4, 2020

SPECIAL TO ADA AND BLUFFTON ICONS - The Ohio House announced passage of House Bill 305, legislation that provides a comprehensive reform of Ohio’s primary and secondary school funding framework.

House Speaker Bob Cupp (R-Lima), said, “The Ohio House has taken a significant step forward in replacing Ohio’s broken school funding formula with a new, workable framework that is appropriate to meeting the cost of a quality education for all students.”

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DeBow and Catherine Freed auction on Dec. 9

In-person and online event off includes jewelry, postage stamps, coin, silverware and many other items
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 4, 2020

Many items from the DeBow Freed trust and the late Catherine Freed will be in a public auction at 9 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 9.

Among those items include jewelry, postage stamps, coins and silverware items.

The auction is through the firm of Apple Tree Auction Center, 1625 W. Church St. Newark, Ohio.

To view the items in the auction click here.

The auction will be both an 'in-person' and online live auction. People may view items and bid online, as well as in person. 

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What's for lunch in December?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 3, 2020

With Ada school students returning to classes on Dec. 7, the school menus are now available from Dec. 7 to the last day of the 2020 school year, Dec. 18.

Click here to view the menu.

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Ada students return to classes Dec. 7

K-3 return five days a week • 4-12 returns in hybrid model
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 3, 2020

Ada students will return to classroom learning on Monday, Dec. 7, in two different models. Those are explained in this story from the school website.

After several weeks of remote learning, the state, county, and our community are still experiencing a rise in the number of positive Covid cases and quarantines. 

However, we feel that we need to safely get our students back in the building and with their teachers. 

Our experience with contact tracing has shown that each positive student case has resulted in 10-20 quarantines each time. 

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No-till conference traditionally held at ONU will be virtual

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Harvest is mostly complete with a few corn fields that still need to be shelled, according to Mark Badertscher of the Hardin extension office.

According to the Nov. 30 Ohio crop weather report, corn is 92% harvested in Ohio and 69% of the wheat is either rated good or excellent. 

Soybean harvest is wrapped up in Hardin County.  During the growing season, from April 15 through Oct. 15, average rainfall was 20.35 inches, which made 2020 a dry year.  This is 4.57 inches below the 10-year average growing season precipitation, and 5.76 less inches of rain than last year’s growing season. 

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3.6 inches of snow fell on Nov. 30

November 2020 was warmer than previous Novembers
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, December 2, 2020

The area experienced 3.6 inches of snow on Nov. 30 for the first snowfall of the season, according to Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.

And, in case you wonder, November was warmer than most Novembers.

Verhoff reports that the average temperature in November 2020 was 45.8 degrees. That’s 4.3 degrees warmer than the normal November average temperature of 41.5 degrees.

The November 2020 high temperature was 78 degrees recorded on Nov. 8 and Nov. 9. The low reading was 20 degrees on Nov. 14.

The daily weather summary for November may be viewed in the graphic below this story.

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