FOREST — The Village of Forest will honor three people who have dedicated endless hours to the community during the Tree Town Festival parade on July 8.

More than a thousand people flocked to downtown Kenton on Friday night for the second Eats on the Street Food Truck Fest.

ADA — With a new wastewater treatment plant in place, the Village of Ada will be able to grow. Located on the east side of the village just off of County Road 44 (East Lincoln Avenue), the $15 million project is up and running and nearing 100 percent completion, with an estimated finish date of October.

Jack Riley and Bob Boyd of the Penn-Ohio Model A Club look at Chris Shafer’s 1929 Model-A-racer during the club’s cruise-in stop in Ada on Thursday afternoon. About 40 members of the driving club made the trip to Ada from Tiffin, which is where the group is staying this week during the club’s annual hub tour where members meet in a location and then tour different cities in the area.

The Silver Creek Center for Environmental Studies provided educational opportunities for area school age youth on a regular from 1986-2001. Due to budget reductions over the years, the center’s operator, the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District district, was forced to eliminate an educational specialist and the programs fell by the wayside in the early 2000s.

Firefighters from McGuffey and Alger responded to a house fire this morning at the intersection of Ohio 195 and CR 110.

Buck Township is in a financial bind. There is money available to repair roads and bridges within the township, said Fiscal Officer Roger Crowe, but the money is needed desperately in the general fund.

For Jan Layman, farming has been a way of life ever since he can remember. He is the owner of Layman Farms, located southwest of Kenton on Township Road 119.