The United Way of Hardin County campaign has climbed to 75 percent of its $220,000 goal as of Tuesday, reported UW Director Darlene Foreman. Pledges and donations total $163,617.33.

It took a few minutes to get the high-paced, up-tempo flow to the game the Kenton Lady Wildcats wanted to play against Upper Scioto Valley on Tuesday night. But once they got the game to the pace they wanted, things seemed to come easy for the Lady Wildcats as they took control of the game with a 19-3 run to end the first quarter on the way to a 72-36 victory over the Rams.

Kenton’s Olivia Hattery competes in the 200 freestyle during the Wildcats swim meet against St. Marys on Tuesday night.

Upper Scioto Valley fourth-grader Olivia Faszler is excited to hold Twix, the Guinea pig owned by junior Maddisyn Dunifon, during Monday’s Career Day at the school.

K-9 officer Riley models his new bullet-proof vest at the Jacob Parrott Safety Center as (from left) Hardin County Sheriff Keith Everhart, handler Deputy Joe Carl, Kenton Elks representative Julie Crowe and Chief Deputy Dennis Burns look on.

Chances are, if you’ve visited Hardin Memorial Hospital on a Friday or Saturday in the past 14 years, you’ve been greeted with a hello and a friendly smile belonging to Shirley Gillen.

AJ Stanfield gets some shopping assistance from Deputy Cory Kellum during the fifth annual Shop With A Cop program at Kenton’s Walmart on Saturday.

Slow starts to games have been Riverdale’s bugaboo so far this season and another one came back to haunt the Lady Falcons on Saturday afternoon against Kenton. The Lady Wildcats forced the Falcons into the 11 first quarter turnovers in jumping ahead 23-2 after eight minutes.

MOUNT BLANCHARD —Playing their third game in five days, Kenton coach Matt McCullough was worried his team might be getting a bit wary when the Wildcats traveled to Riverdale on Saturday night. The Wildcat mentor had nothing to be worried about as the Wildcats forced the Falcons into eight first-quarter turnovers and scored the first 20 points of the game on the way to a 74-43 non-league victory.

MOUNT VICTORY — A slow first half by the Ridgemont Gophers and five first-half three-pointers from Triad allowed the Cardinals to build up a 31-14 lead at halftime in a boys basketball contest on Saturday. While the Gophers more than doubled their first-half score in just the third quarter with 16, the halftime deficit proved too large to overcome as Triad took the 75-48 win.