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By Cort Reynolds

KENTON__The visiting Bluffton High School girls tennis team defeated Kenton 3-2 in a dual match on Monday, September 29.

Bluffton improved to 6-12 after the road win. Kenton fell to 2-12 with the defeat.

Pirate senior Hannah Nieman won at first singles 6-0, 6-1 over Wildcat sophomore Amanda Van Horn.

Bluffton junior Ari Bowling fell 6-2, 6-2 at second singles to Wildcat junior Presley Wilson.

Pirate senior Claire Blackburn lost at third singles to McKenna Stanforth 6-3, 6-4.

League finale is October 2 at Spencerville

By Cort Reynolds

HAMLER__The visiting Bluffton High School volleyball team lost in three sets to Patrick Henry in a match pitting non-conference powers on Monday, September 29.

The Pirate girls fell to 12-7 overall with the 25-16, 25-14, 25-22 defeat.

Patrick Henry improved to 14-2 after the win.

Kendall Stackhouse topped the Pirates with seven kills. Lainey Grandey and Libby Hocanson knocked down five kills apiece.

Prepare for open enrollment, Oct. 15 to Dec. 7

SEPT. 29 MEDIA RELEASE__Representatives from the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP) are hosting a free, virtual town hall on Oct. 2 at 10 a.m. to help Ohioans prepare for the upcoming Medicare open enrollment period and officially launch OSHIIP's in-person and virtual statewide Medicare Checkup events. OSHIIP is a program of the Ohio Department of Insurance.

Here's a look at top stories from the other Icon, www.AdaIcon.com, from the week of September 22-28. For a chronological look at all Ada Icon content, visit AdaIcon.com/archive.

SEPTEMBER 22

Alger prepares to honor phenomenal Negro League pitcher Ray Brown

SEPTEMBER 23

George "Sam" S. Hager, 88, passed away September 28, 2025, at St. Rita's Medical Center.

Sam was born September 12, 1937 in Lima to Oliver and Martha (Mougey) Hager who preceded him in death. On June 8, 1958 he married Shirley Mae (Bales) Hager who survives.

John Lawrence Templin, age 73, died on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at Flower Hospital in Sylvania, Ohio after a long illness.  

John was born in Springfield, Ohio on May 17, 1952, to Lawrence and Orletta (Warkentin) Templin, who preceded him in death. He spent his earliest years in Yellow Springs, Ohio, before moving with his family to Bloomington, Indiana in 1956, and then to Bluffton, Ohio in 1961, when his father was hired as an English professor at Bluffton College.

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