Sheriff Keith Everhart shared those statistics with the Hardin Northern community Wednesday night during a drug awareness program in the school cafeteria. The latest victim was young mother who died Tuesday alongside a county road while emergency responders attempted to revive her, he said. In the car was the victim’s 6-year-old daughter who “saw everything,” Everhart said.

ADA — An Ada couple has taken an aging village landmark and polished it into a community gem. Wayne “JR” and Linda Mason purchased the structure known as the “N” Men’s building and opened it up, cleaned it up and “moderned” it up in order to rent it out for weddings, reunions and parties. The public will see the progress made at the building tonight when the doors will open for what is to be a returning weekly event - Bingo.

Kenton High School's mock trial team joined more than 3,000 other Ohio high school students on Jan. 20 by entering courtrooms across the state to take part in the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education’s (OCLRE) 34th Annual Ohio Mock Trial's District Competition. Kenton’s team is named "Operation 8" with eight KHS students playing the following roles: Brittany Archer portraying plaintiff's expert witness; Chase Fleece as plaintiff's attorney, Josh Freshcorn as plaintiff, Tiffany Geberin as plaintiff's attorney, Alex Haushalter as defense attorney, Andrew Kinter as defense attorney, Abigail Saylor as defense expert witness and Colt Worthington as key defense witness.

Two huge inflated rats met the workers on the Marathon pipeline when they came to work this morning at the former Rockwell plant site in Kenton. With the intimidating rodents were about 70 protesters from the Laborer’s International Union of North America with representative of the Pipeliners Local Union 798 and Ohio Laborer’s District Council.

In recent years, Kent State has become a destination of sorts for Kenton High School football players after their high school playing careers are finished. When offensive lineman Tyler Heintz signed his letter of intent this morning to continue his education and football career at Kent State, he became the fourth Wildcat in the past seven years who will continue his education and playing career as a Golden Flash.

McGUFFEY — With three long-range buckets from Emily Patton and 10 points from Shelby Spradlin in the first quarter, the two helped Upper Scioto Valley to a 23-9 lead against Hardin County rival Ada Tuesday night.

The Kenton and Ada swim teams split a dual match at the Hardin County YMCA on Tuesday night. Kenton won the girls meet 90.5-72.5, while the Bulldogs were 85-67 victors in the boys meets.

The Benjamin Logan robotics team, BLHS Reach, placed 13th out of 32 teams in the Van Wert state qualifying tournament on Saturday, Jan. 29. Team members included (from left, front) Thomas Seeley, Tim Seeley, Sarah Seeley;

ADA — Before becoming Wilson Sporting Goods, the Ada-based factory on North Liberty Street was home to Ohio-Kentucky Manufacturing and produced everything from basketballs, baseball gloves, boxing gloves, punching bags and footballs, just to name a few. Flash forward to 1955 when Wilson purchased the building, the site became the world’s only football-specific factory and the location of every football produced for the National Football League, including those for the biggest sporting event in the country, the Super Bowl.