Kenton Police Department, Chief Dennis Musser praised a collaborative effort between police, council and the administration for many accomplishments during 2016. Speaking at Monday’s City Council meeting, Musser said it was a rough year, but one that proved to be very educational.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — During its reorganizational meeting Monday evening, the Riverdale Board of Education heard the concerns of representatives of the school’s academic, athletic and music boosters. Among the topics of discussion was the needed resurfacing of the school’s all-weather track.

For the fourth consecutive year, Kenton City Schools will close for the Hardin County Fair after it begins the next academic year. The board of education adopted a calendar for the 2017-18 school year at its meeting Monday night.

McGUFFEY — Work on the new Invenergy wind turbines which are to be constructed on the farmland owned by the Upper Scioto Valley School District will not interrupt the crops which will be planted on the land in the spring.

Dave Beazley was raised with the mindset that it was his duty to give back to those from which he took. That is what has led him to serve on the Kenton City Council, work for Rogers Nationwide Insurance and participate in Society Singers.

Kenton High School students who were enrolled in the Wildcat Community Connectors (WCC) program during the fall semester will host an exposition and give a presentation about their experiences during their fall semester internships at local businesses throughout Hardin County on Tuesday at the Mid-Ohio Energy Community Room.

In a time of continued racial unrest, the members of the Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Kenton are asking the public this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 16, to reflect on his dream.

ADA — An Ada man is in the hospital and without a home following a Thursday morning fire. According to Ada Fire Chief Jay Epley, Dennis “Doc” Garbrecht and his wife, Peg, were at home when they were alerted by a smoke detector there was a fire at their home at 301 E. North St.

For many years, when a Hardin County Sheriff’s deputy was confronted with a questionable situation and needed to know what the department’s policy was for addressing it, he had to go to the office and search through a large manual for directions.

MOUNT VICTORY — The source of a long-lingering odor in certain areas of Mount Victory has been determined. According to Mayor Mike Trout, back on Sept. 29, odor logs were placed at the Ridgeway lift station, the Mount Victory flow meter manhole and the manholes at Washington and Marion streets.