Area teams featuring more than 600 swimmers are participating in the Western Ohio Aquatic League meet.

As this year’s Hardin County Relay For Life steps off on the courthouse square this evening, few people have more reason to see it succeed than leader Amy Cyrus. Four times, the mother of two daughters, has been told she had cancer.

WHARTON — Wharton Community Festival has been offering family-friendly entertainment, food and fun for more than 45 years. The annual event is set for Saturday at Wharton Community Park.

“Tiny” Holbrook makes his way around Alger in a kayak following the storms that dropped up to 5 inches of water in Hardin County on Thrusday morning. Flooding was reported downriver in communities on the Blanchard River to the north and the Scioto River to the east and south.

Traffic was detoured around the village of Dunkirk this morning when a reported 4.8 inches of rain fell in a short time overnight.

Natalie Walton, head of youth services at the Ada Public Library, dumps a tub of slime all over library director Rhett Grant during the summer reading program’s year-end pool and pizza party on Wednesday. Times photo/Ty Thaxton

ADA -- There is a certain science to becoming a scientist. It doesn’t happen overnight, and it certainly isn’t easy. But for those with a passion for discovery, it is worth every painstaking effort. Fortunately for three of Ohio Northern University’s molecular biology majors, a new on-campus summer research program has taught them just that.

With just four members on the Kenton Fire Department’s dive team, Chief Tim Clark is working with the Kenton Police Department and Hardin County Sheriff’s Office to get some new guys interested.

Participants in the Hardin Northern Public Library’s summer reading program look on warily as Javon Stacks, of the Exotic Zoo Educational Wildlife Program, shows off a 17-foot reticulated python on Tuesday during the final program of the summer.