MARYSVILLE — A Kenton couple faces drug charges in Union County after 91 balloons of heroin and other items were discovered inside the woman’s body. A Union County grand jury last week indicted Terry Amos Miller, 31 and his wife, Julie Anne Miller, 39, both of 121 N. Cherry St., Kenton, on one count each of trafficking in heroin, possession of heroin, possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence.

Kenton City Council approved legislation to fund the city’s share of a school resource officer for Kenton City Schools during its meeting Monday night. The ordinance, adopted as an emergency following suspension of the three-reading rule, contains transfers from various city funds to come up with the $17,500 to cover 25 percent of the officer’s salary and benefits.

Tim Leffler used to read the local news or watch the news on TV and complain about the way things were. That was the easy thing to do.

Hardin County goat royalty was crowned during its banquet Saturday night in Kenton. Melia Santillanez (left, seated) is the 2018 goat princess while Tucker Hazelton (right) is the 2018 goat prince.

ADA — A phone call to a slumber party resulted in the Ada Police Department and the FBI spending most of the weekend in an investigation. According to Ada Police Chief Michael Harnishfeger, at 12:20 a.m. Saturday, a group of girls were having a sleepover at an Ada home when they received, by text, a threat against the Ada Schools sent to them by an unidentified Ada middle school student.

Today is the deadline to register to vote in the May 8 primary election. The Hardin County Board of Elections, located in the basement of the courthouse, will be open until 9 p.m. to accept registrations.

BELLEFONTAINE — When Ohio Hi-Point Career Center’s campus was constructed in Bellefontaine 43 years ago, vocational education was a new educational concept in Ohio. Since it opened its schools to students, the need for trained engineering, graphic artist and cosmetology students has persisted, but today there are demands for jobs which didn’t exist in 1974, Superintendent Rick Smith said.

ADA — The second amendment to the U.S. Constitution is as old as the nation itself, but the idea the document guarantees all citizens the right to own any type of firearm they wish is a new concept in the country, according to a nationally recognized legal historian.

MOUNT VICTORY — The Ridgemont Board of Education got the changes it requested and voted to move ahead with the construction of the district’s land lab during a special meeting Thursday. Thomas and Marker Construction was approved to be the design-builder of the project following changes to the plans.

The Kenton Elks Lodge honored Teenagers of the Month for March from throughout Hardin County during a luncheon Wednesday at the lodge. There were no teens nominated from Hardin Northern.