ADA — An afternoon house fire in Ada has sent one person to jail for allegedly operating a meth lab. According to a press release from Ada Police Chief Michael Harnishfeger, Karen Troglin, of 409 N. Main St., Ada, was taken into custody following an investigation and faces charges.

A commercial truck lost a battle with gravity Wednesday as it traveled north on Detroit Street in downtown Kenton. The incline in the road caused the empty containers in his trailer to shift.

Logan Austin, 14, of Kenton, said, “This is amazing” several times Wednesday afternoon as he took a virtual reality tour of The Night Cafe, a painting by Vincent van Gogh.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Leipsic took advantage of two Riverdale errors and a passed ball to plate four runs in a 5-0 win over the Falcons in a Blanchard Valley Conference baseball game Wednesday afternoon. The Falcons, who fall to 9-9 overall and 3-5 in the BVC, outhit the Viking 6-4 but were not able to push a run across the plate.

Kenton High School students on Tuesday erected a cross and established a memorial on County Road 60, south of Dunkirk, complete with soccer balls, to Layton Rogers, a sophomore at KHS.

Madison Baldoza, a third-grader in Julie Butterfield’s Ada classroom, tries her hand at writing with a quill on Tuesday at the Beech Grove School at the Hardin County Heritage Farm, east of the county fairgrounds.

Kenton High School student Layton Rogers, 16, of Dola, was killed Monday evening when the car he was driving was struck by a southbound CSX train at 3:50 p.m. at a railroad crossing on County Road 60, south of Dunkirk.

For nearly six months, the Kenton governmental building at 555 W. Franklin Street has been known as the 555 building. However, a new sign was installed Monday to officially name it the Kenton Municipal Building Annex.

Kenton wasted little time in taking control, scoring seven runs in the first inning and adding eight more in the second in the way to a 16-0 win over Upper Scioto Valley in a non-league baseball game on Monday.

DUNKIRK — The support of the community has allowed the Northern Hardin County Fire District to replace all of its trucks over the past three years. An operating levy approved five years ago is about to expire, said Chief Ron Dysert, and the fire department has no plans to ask for a renewal.