DOLA — School districts throughout the county are adjusting their calendars to compensate for the calamity days they have lost this winter due to the weather. Some schools will be in session for Presidents Day on Monday or will be cutting days from their spring break to meet the 185 days of instruction required by the state.

Kenton High School is looking to distinguish itself as the benchmark for others to strive for with the opening of its new fieldhouse. The Kenton Athletic Fieldhouse, as its come to be known, boasts a 50-yard artificial turf surface for football and indoor soccer, a 70-foot by 12-foot batting cage, a state-of-the-art golf simulator, a dedicated wrestling room, two rotational in-season coaching offices, an athletic training room and a concession stand.

Before agricultural leaders and legislators determine what should be done to address the algae bloom on Lake Erie, there should be more facts to work on, said some of the local farmers who got together Tuesday to discuss the issue. The discussion was part of the program for a planning meeting sponsored by the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District.

RIDGEWAY — After several months of discussion, the Ridgeway council is ready to take the legal steps needed to collect the revenue from residents not paying for sewer services. Solicitor Jason Miller presented council with an ordinance which was given its first of three readings addressing the issue.

COLUMBUS — State Rep. Jon Cross, R-Kenton, has been appointed to the four standing committees and a subcommittee by House Speaker Larry Householder for the 133rd General Assembly. Cross will serve on the Energy and Natural Resources, Finance, Financial Institutions and Public Utilities committees, as well as the Finance Subcommittee on Transportation.

With a state representative from Kenton in Columbus for the first time in more than 50 years, new 83rd District Rep. Jon Cross is hoping that his hometown can make the most of it. During his first official visit to the Kenton City Council chambers on Monday night since taking office at the beginning the year, Cross told the council it needs to take advantage of having local representation in Columbus.

Property owner Russ Cahill admitted at Monday night’s Kenton City Council meeting that he has been hard on city officials during the past few council sessions. He offered some praise for city employees stating that he feels the city’s “office administrators and the ladies that run the building” are doing a “fabulous job.”

McGUFFEY — For more than a year, one of the two wind turbines at the Upper Scioto Valley Schools has sit idle. In recent weeks school officials have attempted to work with NexGen, the company who the district thought owned the unit, to repair the crippled turbine.

A group of Kenton Middle School seventh-graders set out earlier this school year to raise $3,960 to provide a full year of internet connectivity for the Be Like Brit orphanage in Haiti. "These wonderful kids just smashed the goal," said teacher Jamie Bartlett, and now they are targeting two years of funding.

Whether to have classes during the Hardin County Fair will not be an issue for Kenton City Schools for the next two school years. All proposed school calendars for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 already have fair week off, Superintendent Jennifer Penczarski announced during a public hearing as part of the KCS Board of Education meeting Monday night.