The Trophy Bassmasters continued their 2019 fishing season as they traveled to West Harbor on Lake Erie for one of the most anticipated events of the year. For one tournament a year the club uses the same scoring system as the popular Major League Fishing series on TV. Every bass 12 inches and over is recorded and scored then immediately released during the tournament day giving each angler unlimited numbers they are allowed to catch and count toward their daily total.

Kenton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center welcomed its newest staff members with a pizza party on June 7. They are (from left) Hillary Routt, Social Services Director; Cindy Hill, Director of Nursing and Ashley Manley, MDS coordinator.

The Kenton/Hardin County Soroptimist Club met Thursday, June 6 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Kenton. President Laura Ferguson called the meeting to order at 6 p.m. with a welcome of 14 members in attendance plus two guests. President Ferguson thanked the hostesses for providing snacks, including Missie Austin, Hope Myers, and Kelly Rickenbacher. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Cam Hemmerly.

Young readers took part in the annual Slime Time event on Tuesday at Gormley Park in Forest as part of the Forest-Jackson Library's summer reading program. Teams were divided and asked a series of questions, many based on authors or characters in books.

An afternoon of fun for the whole family is planned Saturday when the Hardin County Family YMCA hosts the 3rd annual Go Fly a Kite Day from noon to 3 p.m. at the Corner Kick Soccer Complex, located south of Kenton off Ohio 292.

A pair of area businesses, Natural Choice Dairy and Kent Williams Drainage, were recognized by the Upper Scioto Valley Board of Education for their contributions to the USV school district during the board’s regular meeting on Monday night.

Chris Hart took on the personality of astronaut Neil Armstrong and shared information of Armstrong’s landing on the moon in 1969 with young people and adults at the Hardin Northern Library on Tuesday.

Several area youth represented the Kenton Elks Lodge 157 in the Elks Northwest District Soccer Shoot last Saturday at the Emory Adams Fields in Findlay.

Experts on the dangers of hazardous materials presented testimony Monday night to the Buck Township trustees that the transloading station proposed for development in the township would pose minimal risk to its neighbors. The majority of the estimated 50 people who attended the special meeting in Veterans Hall at the Hardin County Courthouse were not residents of the township and spoke in support of the jobs the business would generate for the community.

Michele Sherman (left), youth minister and Trish Wilcox, children's minister guided a group of volunteers to decorate the St. John's Evangelical Church in Kenton for the annual Vacation Bible School program.