A fire at a vacant house on Letson Street in Kenton on Saturday night remains under investigation. According to a report from the Kenton Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched at 9:57 p.m. to a structure fire at 247 W. Letson St.

Kenton police A possible non-injury crash was reported at Jacob Parrott Boulevard and Franklin Street.

Though originally from Oxford in southwestern Ohio, Rev. Vanessa Cummings spent time in Kenton as a child, traveling with her father Virgil, a pastor who supervised the district. Now a pastor herself, Vanessa returned to Kenton just over four years ago to serve at Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and was reunited with those with whom she grew up.

Friday Mabel Radcliffe, LaRue, was traveling north on S. Main Street, while Donald B. Graves, Detroit, Mich., was traveling east on Letson Avenue, stopped at the stop sign.

MONDAY, JAN. 15 Kenton Board of Education – 7 p.m., board of education office; reorganizational meeting followed by regular monthly meeting

ADA – The Ohio Northern University HealthWise Pharmacy recently opened in the Robertson-Evans Pharmacy Building at ONU, located at 511 W. Lincoln Ave., Ada. The pharmacy, which is located next to the Pierstorf Family Pharmacy Museum, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

ADA — Mark Southward and Amanda Morrison, co-owners of Streamline Insurance Solutions of Ada, have been notified that their agency has been selected to be members of the Presidents Club of Senior Marketing Company, located in Omaha, Neb.

Brent Gibboney, 117 Franklin St., Ada – speeding 50 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25. Michael J. Billingsley, Clovendale – speeding 52 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25.

ADA — When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited the campus of Ohio Northern University on Jan. 11, 1968, few people would have predicted that within 50 years there would be a federal holiday in his honor and his statue would be a part of the National Mall in Washington D.C.

The year 2017 was good for Hardin County’s sales tax revenue, said Auditor Mike Bacon. Sales tax revenue was $4,955,801, up $550,005 over the previous year, he said.