Choreographer Kyle Phillips goes over the dance moves for the song “Shut Up and Dance With Me” during show choir camp for the Kenton Middle School Dimensions on Thursday afternoon. The Dimensions is preparing for the show choir showcase at the Hardin County Fair on Sept. 7, where they will present a show called “We Stand For Music.”

Bailey Wagner got a new appreciation for family life thousands of miles away from her own family. It happened while Wagner, a rural Kenton resident and 2014 Ridgemont High School graduate, participated in a study abroad trip to Honduras earlier this summer.

Nearly 80 Kenton High School students are learning their marching routines for the Wildcat Marching Band as part of band camp this week.

In the not too distant future, residents of Hardin County may be hopping a train to shop for school clothes in Chicago or leaving their cars in the garage while they catch a flight at Port Columbus. While those days may be 10 to 20 years in the future, the Hardin County Commissioners on Tuesday met with developers and local business leaders to consider an initial investment...

MARSEILLES — The gardens around the country home of Lovena Trautwein are a gardener’s dream. Hundreds of geraniums, marigolds, daisies and other annuals follow paths around a shallow fish pond and a small shelter house. The plants came from Lovena’s Greenhouse, the nursery the 89-year-old operates with her family just northwest of Marseilles in Wyandot County.

Judge Randall Basinger fell in love with the law at an early age. He is hoping voters will elect the 28-year Putnam County judge to a seat on the bench of the Third District Court of Appeals this fall.

Having practiced law as an attorney for 37 years, Scott Barrett is now in his third year as Hardin County Common Pleas Court judge and thinks it’s a great way to end his law career.

Giovanni Olivieri, 7, is all smiles as he prepares to have the mud washed off his face following a dive into the mud pit at the Abundant Life Church in Kenton. Giovanni is one of 225 young people taking part in the church’s summer camp, which began Thursday and continues through Sunday.