Sara Reese of Kenton, VP/Retail Administrator for Liberty National Bank, was awarded a diploma with Certificate of Executive Leadership Certificate on Aug. 9 at commencement exercises during the 75th annual session of the prestigious Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is the highest-level certificate available through the Wisconsin School of Business.

Kenton Tractor Supply Company on Saturday, Aug. 24, will host animal adoptions, a pet supplies drive and more during their annual Out Here with Animals celebration – a monthlong event that recognizes pets, animals and the people who care for them.

For more than a century, the stone chapel at Grove Cemetery in Kenton has been a central icon. But today it is a storage building and the price tag for repairing the aged chapel has exceeded its worth, the board of trustees has determined. As they look for ways to remove it, the board members are seeking someone who can keep the stained glass windows and concrete gargoyles away from the wrecking ball.

MONDAY, AUG. 19 Kenton Board of Education – 7 p.m., board of education office; preceded at 6 p.m. by a board work session BKP Ambulance District Board of Trustees – 6 p.m., board office

ADA — The congregation of the New Birth Living Word Ministries has seen many changes in recent years, but it has a home now and its leaders believe God was with them every step of the journey. The church was founded in Alger by Wayne Vaughn. The Kenton resident had found a vacant church building in the village and made arrangements for his new church to be housed there. After much remodeling, the congregation grew. But after six years, a disagreement with the owner of the church forced Pastor Vaughn and his followers to seek another home.

I love coffee. My love affair with coffee is probably bordering on inappropriate. I am nerdy about my coffee. I buy green coffee beans and roast them myself. I grind them myself and make coffee fresh every morning, either in a pour over machine, a specialty French press, or a coffee maker named “The Connoisseur.” If money and time/energy were not limiting factors, I would open my own coffee roaster and use the profits to fund charitable causes around the world. I love coffee.

One of the corn production scenarios agronomists least like is a wet spring followed by a hotter and drier than normal July and August. The spring of 2019 was one of the wettest on records throughout much of the state and now, as the dry weather that started in July persists, such a scenario seems to be a possibility. A combination of warm temperatures and inadequate rainfall is beginning to stress corn fields across Ohio. What’s exacerbating this problem are the marginal roots evident in some fields. Several factors, including poor planting conditions and/or excessively wet soil conditions in June have inhibited good root development in many fields.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dairy farmers grapple with slumps in milk prices while the cost of feeding their cows keeps rising. For crop farmers, prices for corn and soybeans remain low, and many growers couldn’t plant either crop this year.

ADA — Patrolman Penny Clark must have been thinking about the remodeling project in the Ada Police Department when she fell asleep one night recently because she recalls suddenly waking up with an idea involving the renovated office.

Kellogg Farms received the top conservation awards at the Annual Meeting of the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District on Thursday evening in Kenton.