It was an 0-19, two-year collegiate tennis career. Yet winning Wimbledon would have actually paled in comparison. And with good reason. It was a 30-0 teaching career, that impacted hundreds and hundreds of young peoples’ lives.
ADA — Barb Gray grew up in Ada, and graduated from Ada High School in 1977. Just before graduation, she took what she thought was going to be a brief, interim job at the Wilson Football Factory. That was 48 years ago.
KENTON — On Friday, 2 May, Ridgemont third graders spent their school day at the 1894 Beech Grove Schoolhouse, which is located at the museum’s Heritage Farm near the fairgrounds in Kenton.
His impact as an educator in the USV and Ada School Systems over the years was, well, immeasurable. And he believes it would not have been such, if not for polio. His own.
DELAWARE — Jayson Dyer of Kenton presented original academic work April 17 at Ohio Wesleyan University’s 2025 Spring Student Symposium.
ADA — Before 1850, what is now Ada “had little to offer a settler looking for a new home.” This, according to late, local author Betty Miller in one of her “Small Town Sampler” booklets (Volume II). *These booklets are in the archives of Ada’s History Museum.
The Hardin County Business and Professional Women’s Club will once again award a scholarship to a student from Hardin County who has completed at least two of four years of college at an accredited school, or one year of a two-year business or technical school program.
ADA — Railroad Park is the centerpiece of Ada. And “The Depot” is the centerpiece of Railroad Park. And with good reason.
HARROD — Hardin County’s newest author is, perhaps, the most prolific area author – ever! He’s at eight books, and counting! What’s more, he just started writing all these books in 2022.