MOUNT VICTORY — The January meeting of the Ridgemont Public Library Board has been moved to Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. at the Mount Victory building, 124 E. Taylor St.

The Hardin County Board of Elections will close at noon on Friday, Dec. 22.

Kenton City offices will be closed on Monday, Dec. 25 and Tuesday, Dec. 26 for the Christmas holiday.

Kenton police Cherry A. Berry, 533 S. Wayne St., was traveling west on E. Franklin Street, approaching the intersection of Memorial Drive.

The Kenton City Schools Board of Education on Monday night voted unanimously to begin the planning process for a new grades 7-12 school. The action doesn’t commit the board to pursue local funding toward construction of a new building.

Upper Scioto Valley fourth-grader Olivia Faszler is excited to hold Twix, the Guinea pig owned by junior Maddisyn Dunifon, during Monday’s Career Day at the school.

K-9 officer Riley models his new bullet-proof vest at the Jacob Parrott Safety Center as (from left) Hardin County Sheriff Keith Everhart, handler Deputy Joe Carl, Kenton Elks representative Julie Crowe and Chief Deputy Dennis Burns look on.

The majority of people participating in an online survey believe Kenton City Schools should have a random student drug testing policy. The board presented results of the survey at its monthly meeting Monday night.

Nominations are being sought for the first class of the Kenton City Schools Alumni Hall of Fame. The initial inductees will be selected in March of 2018, it was announced at the KCS Board of Education meeting on Monday night.

It has taken about ten years for them to arrive, but construction on the wind turbines to be located on the Upper Scioto Valley farm land is slated to begin this week, according to Superintendent Mike Kis. The school leader reported to his board of education Monday night that Kent Truckor, Senior Manager for Business Development at Invenergy, contacted the school and announced crews are prepared to start building the turbines.