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.

Janie Bradley and her husband Phillip have been through some hard times. But it’s surviving those hard times that have taught her valuable lessons that help in her job. Bradley is in her 27th year working clerical support at the front window of the Hardin County Job and Family Services Office. It’s at the front window that Bradley meets all sorts of people, each with a different need.

Master gardener Kim Thomas holds an umbrella for Gaia Smith as the pair join Hardin County YMCA volunteers and other master gardeners as they establish a butterfly garden south of the YMCA building Saturday.

Austin Heil’s family has had its roots firmly planted at a Pleasant Township farm for six generations and the Kenton High School graduate is diversifying from the traditional farming work to guarantee the future of the homestead. Heil was featured recently on the Growing Our Generation email newsletter produced by the Ohio Farm Bureau for being the sixth generation to farm the same land.