Retiring Hardin County Board of Developmental Disabilities Superintendent Mark Kieffer and incoming Superintendent Kara Brown stand with some of the items to be auctioned off at the 27th annual ARC Auction, which will take place Sunday at 1 p.m. at Simon Kenton School. The Hardin County ARC assists adults and children with disabilities in Hardin County. Submitted photo

Dog tags for 2017 go on sale today at 14 locations throughout the county. The tags are needed for any canine at least three months of age.

DOLA — Hardin Northern 7-12 principal Drew Cano, with the help of teachers and staff, has been working to change the cultural mindset of the current generation of students. Cano is in his first year at the position, taking the job after spending the previous 15 years teaching at the school where he had a daily interaction with students.

Last spring, Seth Davis was looking for someone to job-shadow. At that time, he was an eighth-grader at Ridgemont and was hoping to find someone to show him the advantages of a career in maintenance. He turned to Dave Manns and that choice has changed his life.

One of Hardin County’s most visible eyesores may be on borrowed time. The abandoned gas station known as Highway Oil, located at the corner of Ohio 309 and Ohio 235, south of Ada, has gradually deteriorated into a nuisance over several decades of inactivity.

The star of Tuesday evening’s Lions Club Christmas Parade in Kenton was Santa Claus.

In the end, the race for the Jan. 3 Hardin County commissioner’s seat was decided by just two votes. The board of elections met today starting at 2 p.m. and at 4:45 p.m. announced the results of the tally.