Ken Albert challenged the staff of Simon Kenton School and Harco Industries to become stones. Albert, who is the business manager for the Hardin County Board of Developmental Disabilities, shared stories of people with disabilities whose life he has touched and those connections only happened because someone made waves.

County librarians Becca Ramsey of Ridgemont (left), Karen Moore of Forest and Sam Norris of the Hardin County District Library discuss what it takes to enter their professional field with a group of seniors from Ada High School during Thursday’s second annual Student Job and Career Fair at Kenton High School.

WAPAKONETA — The Ridgemont girls basketball team overcame slow starts and got past two much bigger opponents in sectional play to earn a spot in the Division IV girls district tournament at Wapakoneta High School.

FINDLAY — The Pirates of Penzance is coming to Marathon Center for the Performing Arts, 200 W. Main Cross St., at 7:30 p.m. March 16. This New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players production feaures a band of swashbuckling buccaneers, bumbling British Bobbies, frolicsome Victorian maidens, and the delightfully dotty “model of a modern Major-General” for a rollicking romp over the rocky coast of Cornwall.

With basketball teams squaring off in tournament competition this week, a team of three Kenton Middle School students will compete against other teams from throughout the state for another championship. Eighth-graders Zach Heintz, Theo Jesionowski and Noah Ketcham will compete as Kenton 1594B in the 2018 Vex Robotics Competition Middle School State Robotics Championship in Columbus on Saturday.

ADA — Derrick Jamison calls Oct. 25 “the worst day of my life and the best day of my life.” It was on Oct. 25, 1985, that he was sentenced to die for the murder of a man working at Cincinnati nightclub.

FINDLAY — On Friday, Jaron Sharp and his teammates made four first quarter three-pointers as Kenton jumped out to a large first-quarter lead on Bath before hanging on over the final three quarters for a five-point win.

Whitney Fox and Carl Kissling stack some of the 1,938 cases of Girl Scout cookies being distributed Tuesday from the home of Pam Thames in Forest. The number of orders has decreased in recent years, said Thames, with the decline of the number of Girl Scouts in Hardin County.

MOUNT VICTORY —Before the current members of the Ridgemont girls basketball team entered high school, the Lady Gopher program was in a decades-long rut where wins in a season usually could be counted on one hand. In fact, none of the Ridgemont girls were even born the last time the Gopher program had a winning season.

Last Saturday, the Kenton girls basketball team did something no Lady Wildcat team has done since 1998 when it defeated Wapakoneta 48-33 to win a sectional championship. This week, the Lady Wildcats will try to do something no other KHS girls team has done – cut down a district net.