The Ridgemont FFA and FCCLA is sponsoring the school’s annual Sweetheart Dance on Saturday. Alexis Elliott (second from left) is the 2018 queen and the king is Dillon Beiler (back, center).

As Kenton attorney Keith Lange closed out the estate of Eleanor Ballinger, he came across a beautiful, deep picture frame stored behind a door in her home. As he examined the artwork, said Lange, he asked an antique collector who was working with him on the estate to look at the various shades of flowers displayed under the glass.

Jayden Cornell had an off-night shooting for the Kenton boys basketball team on Tuesday night, going scoreless for the first three quarters of the Wildcats game against Wapakoneta. The freshman came alive for six points in the fourth quarter and none of those points were bigger than the final two.

The Ada and Kenton swim teams split a dual match at the Hardin County YMCA on Tuesday night. Led by Klava Katayama’s two first place efforts, the Ada girls won seven events on the way to a 97-64 victory, while the Wildcat boys, led by Landon Bartlett and Garrett Thomas’ two firsts, won six events on the way to a 92-53 win.

Jason Wright uses a leaf blower to clear the powdery snow from the sidewalks at Community First Bank in Kenton. Wright said he blew the snow off the walkway with the blower because he attempts to “work smarter, not harder.”

ST. PARIS — The Ben Logan girls basketball team clinched its fourth straight outright Central Buckeye Conference Mad River Division championship with an 86-40 win over Graham on Monday night. The Raiders, led by a 31-point effort by Nikki Current, wasted little time taking control as they led 24-12 after eight minutes and 46-22 at halftime.

ADA — Carl Wilkerson has been taking pictures of basketball games for 50 years, and anyone who regularly attends the Ada boys and girls basketball games or most other Ada sporting events is sure to recognize him. Not only does he take pictures at the games, but he’s also sure to strike up conversations with those in attendance.

Leading 19-4 five minutes into their game against a short-handed Arlington squad, it looked like the Kenton girls basketball team might cruise to an easy victory over the host Red Devils on Saturday. A victory proved to be anything but easy to come by as the Red Devils rallied to take a one-point lead twice in the fourth quarter before the Wildcats were able to put the game away at the foul line and pull out a 53-46 victory.

With Kenton ahead 23-18 after eight minutes, Saturday night’s boys basketball battle between the Wildcats and Ada looked like it could turn into a track meet as both teams struggled early on the defensive end of the floor. The Wildcats wasted little time in changing that however, as they forced the Bulldogs into five turnovers during a 13-0 run to start the second quarter and controlled the game from there on the way to a 73-41 victory over their Hardin County rivals.

A new wellness program geared to employees of small businesses was unveiled for Hardin County on Friday morning at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Kenton. The Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation created Better You, Better Ohio to assist workers throughout the state in dealing with health issues and living healthy.