Beginning Monday, Ohio 31 between Township Road 265 and Ohio 273, north of Mount Victory, will close for 14 days as part of the bridge repair project than started Aug. 14. According to the Ohio Department of Transportation’s District I office in Lima, traffic will be detoured onto Ohio 292 and Ohio 273 back to Ohio 31.

MONDAY, OCT. 2 USV Board of Education - 6 p.m. board room. Special meeting to discuss recent issues.

The Hardin County Probate and Juvenile Courts will be closed Monday from 10:30 a.m. to noon to allow the staff to attend a funeral.

Leslie A. Tidd, 608 N. Main St., called to report an assault. Drug activity was reported in the 700 block of W. Franklin Street.

ADA — The Ohio Northern University Freed Center for the Performing Arts has announced its schedule for the 2017-2018 season. Events continued this weekend with the play, Angels In America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner.

ADA – Guest artist Staff Sgt. Mike Forbes will present a tuba recital at 8 p.m. on Oct. 5 in Ohio Northern University’s Presser Hall recital hall. The event is free and open to the public. Forbes will be accompanied by Eric Jenkins on piano.

BLUFFTON —Rehearsals for Bluffton University’s 122nd performance of Handel’s “Messiah” will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays beginning Oct. 2, in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall on campus. Anyone interested in singing, from high school students to adults, is invited to join the chorus, which typically ranges from 70-90 members, including Bluffton students, faculty, staff and community members.

ATTICA — Seneca East High School is sponsoring its sixth annual So You Think You Can Sing vocal talent competition on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. If you are a middle (grades 5 - 8) or high school student (grades 9 -12) and have a gift for singing on stage, this competition is for you.

ROUNDHEAD TOWNSHIP — A cluster of homes along Township Road 21 in Roundhead Township is located in a quiet, remote southwestern corner of Hardin County. The residents like it that way, but in recent months their peaceful retreat has been disturbed by commercial semi trucks speeding over the hills on the narrow road past the hidden driveways.

Kenton street workers and the city administration observed a Dura Patcher in operation on Wednesday morning to repair a section of pavement in the 200 block of East Columbus Street.