Standing with the new sign for the newly renamed Hardin County Heritage Farm are (from left) Tim Striker, Linda Iams and Sheena Striker. The site traditionally had been known as the Hardin County Farm Museum.

DUNKIRK — In his 26 years coaching football at Hardin Northern, Pete Brunow helped take the Polar Bears from bottom dwellers to eventual conference and state champions. Brunow is being recognized for his coaching efforts on Friday in Columbus by being inducted into the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

The mood was somber as the members of Kenton High School’s football team drifted into their morning weight-lifting session this morning. Their minds were obviously on the passing of one of their own, Tyler Heintz, a 2017 KHS graduate.

The Hardin County Family YMCA is sponsoring a program this Saturday which it hopes will be a new experience for the entire family for Father’s Day weekend. Go Fly A Kite Day is slated from noon to 3 p.m. at the Corner Kick Soccer Complex (next to the Kenton Little League fields) off Ohio 292, just south of Kenton.

Coach Jared Manns (center, right) leads a group of young distance runners in warmups during the Kenton youth track camp at Robinson Field on Tuesday.

Members of the Kenton Area Swim Team’s StingRays beat the early summer heat wave on Monday morning as coach Emily Schaub helps them with their starts in preparation for a meet.

Laurie DeLong said she was sleeping at her home at 3472 Ohio 67, at 7 a.m. Sunday, when a passing motorist knocked on her door to tell her the barn near her house was burning.

A pile of 15 fire hydrants wait to be hauled to a junkyard in Forest. A grant has made it possible to replace the aging hydrants with new units, while also replacing valves and installing a water line loop in the business district.

The second farm Reds beat the Dodgers 6-4 in Kenton Little Leauge action on Monday. Leading batters for the Reds were Kole Anspach with a triple and two singles, Oliver Sneary with four singles, Lucas Klotz with three singles, Parker Risner and Slade Taylor with two singles each, and Malachi Blankenship and Cahner Brim both had a single each.