The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will implement new postage rates on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, for several mail classes and special services. The increases do not affect the price of a one-ounce first-class letter, currently at 49 cents. Click here for a chart listing all rates.
Registration is open for a 10-week Winter Music Together class for children, led by Laura Hartzler. Contact Hartzler at [email protected] for complete details.
The first session is at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 11, at First Mennonite Church, Bluffton.
Hartzler said: "This winter we are singing the songs and chants of the bongos collection. We are tapping our rhythm sticks and playing kitchen instruments to American folksong "This Old Man."
Apollo Career Center’s board will reorganize for 2016 at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 14, in the Apollo board room, according to Nancy Hilden, superintendent.
Brad Fruchey is the Bluffton school board representative to the Apollo board. A board agenda is an attachment at the bottom of this story.
The Bluffton Lions Club, for their fourth year, is offering three $500 scholarships to 2016 graduating seniors in local schools. The scholarships will be paid directly to the school or college where the winning students will be enrolled.
Applications for these scholarships may be obtained through the guidance counselors either in Bluffton, Pandora-Gilboa or Mt. Cory-Rawson school districts. Those completed applications received by April 15, 2016, will be considered.
FROM THE ADA ICON - Hardin County's winter weather advisory is no fluke as it demonstrates the conditions of the road in this weather-related traffic accident north of Ada.
This photo and those below, taken by Ken Collins of the Ada Icon, show scenes of an accident on State Route 235.
While rescue workers were on the scene earlier today, Ada-Liberty Township Fire blocked the northbound Route 235 at Hardin County Road 20, about two miles north of Ada.
