MOUNT VICTORY — The village of Mount Victory will celebrate the fall season with its first Pumpkin Fest next month. The event is being sponsored by the MV Shopkeepers Group and is slated for Oct. 7 at the Henry Martin Park at the corner of Main and Taylor streets in the village.

McGUFFEY — The recent alleged hazing of a Upper Scioto Valley student brought an overflow crowd of concerned parents to the Upper Scioto Valley Board of Education meeting on Monday. Parents of football team players demanded answers to the discipline their sons have faced in the time since the incident was turned over to the sheriff’s office for a criminal investigation.

McGUFFEY — A video of Upper Scioto Valley Ram football players running, jumping and throwing the football on the closed field at Waynesfield-Goshen High School is considered by many as a harmless prank, but it resulted in a coach being suspended.

Kenton income tax revenue is showing some gains in the second half of the year. Mayor Randy Manns, citing a report from Income Tax Administrator Emma Boutwell, said revenue is up $42,000 over the past three months.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Despite some poor grades in the recently released state report card, at least one member of the Riverdale Board of Education is not concerned. According to the state report card, which came out two weeks ago, Riverdale received two B’s coming in K-3 literacy and graduation, two D’s in achievement and prepared for success, and two F’s in gap closing and progress.

McGUFFEY — The grades given to Upper Scioto Valley in the Ohio Department of Education’s annual report card don’t tell the whole story of what is happening at the school, said Education Director Craig Hurley. The scores given to the district were two Cs, three Ds and one F, he noted.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 26 Kenton-Hardin Health Department Board – 7 p.m., health department

Suspicious vehicle reports were received at Scioto Village and parked in the parking lot at Price Funeral Home. Michelle L. Vicchiarelli, Findlay, was stopped in traffic in the northbound lane of S. Main Street near Perry Street, waiting for a train on the tracks.

Five years ago, Bob Emlinger began taking his little Dachshund, Cricket, on walks all around town. Since that time, he’s found $860 and countless items of clothing that people have left behind.

Jon Cross of Kenton received endorsements from several area officials Saturday morning to kick off his fall campaign to become the 83rd District state representative. Before embarking on a bus tour of several communities in the district, the first-time political office seeker received the verbal backing of Hardin County Commissioners Brice Beaman and Roger Crowe, mayors Tom Seem of Forest and Mike Trout of Mount Victory, and Hardin County Sheriff Keith Everhart and Logan County Sheriff Randy Dodds.