Students at Hardin Northern Elementary clean the flower beds at the front of the school as a part of the district-wide Day of Service on Wednesday. The high school students worked throughout the community on service projects.

WAYNESFIELD — Hardin Northern’s Nick Bame won three events and was second in another to lead area athletes at the Northwest Central Conference track and field meet on Saturday at Waynesfield-Goshen. Bame was first in the 1,600 run in a meet record time of 4:25.78 seconds.

In honor of Mother’s Day, the Kenton Times is featuring the moms of five people in the community. Marlene Holbrook is the mother of Upper Scioto Valley Student Advocate Danny Holbrook and twin brother, David, who is a veteran law enforcement officer. She has remained the emotional and spiritual rock of the family even through recent tragedy.

Riverdale High School juniors and seniors watch as first responders tend to the scene of a mock crash at the school on Friday morning.

In what has become a tradition at Kenton High School, members of the FFA chapter drive their tractors to school Friday morning. The students parked their tractors in the student parking lot as parents and fellow students took photos. Times photo/Dan Robinson

FINDLAY — The Ohio Farm Bureau and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRSC) joined forces to give the area news media a bus tour of farms in Hardin and Hancock counties which have made changes to control the chemical run-off from their fields into area water supplies.

Since middle school, Madison Blevins has been thinking about a career in dentistry. The Kenton High School junior didn’t know if she wanted to be a dental hygienist or a dentist. But through the Wildcat Community Connectors (WCC) program, she completed an internship at Kenton Dental Care and that experience helped her make her career choice.

Members of the Upper Scioto Valley fourth grade enjoy a game of Red Rover at the Beech Grove Schoolhouse in Kenton on Thursday.

Chase Fleece allows a duckling to walk up his arm during the Kenton FFA’s Ag Day Thursday at the Hardin County Fairgrounds.