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University Club II is accepting scholarship applications

Posted by Staff on Monday, November 20, 2023

The University Club II Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for the 2024 annual scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to a current junior or senior college student who has graduated from a Hardin County high school. 

Scholarship applications are available by emailing Susan Headings at [email protected] or by texting 567-295-8464. The application deadline is February 1, 2024. 

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A short holiday week for the Icon

Posted by Paula Scott on Monday, November 20, 2023

The Ada Icon and Bluffton Icon will take a holiday during Thanksgiving week 2023. Website content will be on pause Thursday-Sunday, November 23-26, except for breaking news including sports and obituaries.

Send your news tips and media releases 24/7 to [email protected].

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Todd A. Risner worked for Graphic Packaging

Posted by Staff on Sunday, November 19, 2023

UPDATED November 19 with funeral arrangements.

Todd Allen Risner, age 55, of Kenton, passed away on Thursday, November 16, 2023, at OhioHealth Hardin Memorial Hospital, Kenton. 

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Thomas E. Dearth was a teacher and served in the Ohio National Guard

Posted by Staff on Sunday, November 19, 2023

Thomas E. Dearth, age 81, of Ada, passed away on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima. 

He was born to the late Jasper and Aezelda (Robnolte) Dearth on February 21, 1942 in Ada, Ohio. Tom married Janice A. Elwood on May 8, 1965 she survives in Ada. 

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A story about a woman who voted in 1915

Posted by Staff on Sunday, November 19, 2023

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

The 19th amendment guaranteed all American women the right to vote on Aug. 1920.

Despite that date, a brief notation in my grandmother’s diary reads: “I went to vote and Margaret and Florence went with me. Margaret is one year old, Nov. 2, 1915.”

The note with the 1915 date confused me. I knew that women did not receive their constitutional right to vote until the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

So, how could she vote in 1915?

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PHOTO Bulldogs winter sports schedules

Posted by Staff on Sunday, November 19, 2023

UPDATED Ready to carve out time for Bulldogs winter sports? Here are schedules for Junior High and High School sports, including boys and girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling, and swimming. (Subject to change. Schedule as of Nov. 19, 2023)

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