After playing integral roles on one of the most successful baseball teams in school history this past spring, a pair of graduating Kenton baseball players are planning to take their game to the next level. Wildcat starting pitcher Heath Houser and third baseman Nathaniel Leffler inked National Letters of Intent on Thursday to play baseball collegiately.

Workers who have been helping to build the Marathon pipeline project through Hardin County took time out from their jobs on Thursday to pitch in on projects in Kenton.

The Kenton Area Swim Team StingRays split a dual meet with Bluffton on Thursday evening. The StingRays won the girls meet 344-320, while Bluffton took first in the boys meet 457-174.

DOLA — The Hardin Northern Board of Education is moving forward with plans to construct an athletic complex north of the school. The board, at a special meeting Wednesday night, approved a resolution to advertise for bids for Phase I of the project which includes the construction of a softball field as well as renovation of the current baseball facilities and construction of a gravel parking lot between the two.

Two of the six Kenton Elks Lodge 157 shooters took first place in their age brackets at the Northwest District Elks Soccer Shoot-Out in Findlay on Saturday, June 3. Taking first place were Ellie Minter (U8 Girls) and Camden Hicks (U14 Boys).

PORT CLINTON — The Trophy Bassmasters finally got to catch more than 1 or 2 fish per member as they made their first trip up north to West Harbor and Lake Erie. Since the season is closed to possessing bass, the club uses a measure to weight conversion chart.

Miguel Flores takes a tarantula from “Dr. Insecta” during a performance at the Alger Public Library on Tuesday afternoon to kick off the library’s summer reading program, “Build a Better World.”

LIMA — Kenton was represented by four players in the Western Buckeye League’s East-West All-Star game on Tuesday. Wildcats playing in the game were seniors Hanna Legge and Sydney Bolling and juniors Jenna Clum and Molly Pees.

The eighth annual Family Fun Day and Cruise-In is slated for noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Simon Kenton School in Kenton. Organizers (from left, front) Larry Gossard, Bryce Wells-Gossard, Dixie Shepherd; (back) Tonya Castle and Bob Shepherd are hoping for a large crowd to raise funds for the Children’s Tumor Foundation. Gossard said there are more food and craft …