Kenton City Council approved vacation days to part-time police dispatchers as part of legislation adopted at its meeting Monday night.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Voters in the Riverdale School District will have a decision to make in this November’s election regarding a three-year, one-percent income tax renewal. At its regular monthly meeting on Monday, the Riverdale School Board approved a resolution to place the income tax renewal on the Nov. 8 ballot.

FOREST — There were many winners at this year’s Tree Town Festival in Forest. The event is sponsored by the Forest Fire Department and Jackson Forest Emergency Medical Services. It took place in the village’s Gormley Park earlier this month.

The Kenton Police Department is looking for a white male who ordered a sandwich at Subway and then pulled a gun on the clerk on Saturday evening. The suspect is described as being in his early 20s with possible tattoos on his face, arms and/or neck. He was approximately 5’10” tall and weighed about 169 pounds. Following the holdup, the …

A suspicious vehicle was reported in the 600 block of East St.

Despite the hot weather, a large crowd gathered at the park for a day of activities, food and fun.

As soon as Rev. Tomas Pistora came to Kenton’s Trinity United Presbyterian Church in 2003, he knew he’d joined a community that embraces everyone. Pistora was asked by Trinity to be its pastor while he was working for a presbytery in Toledo. Because he is originally from the Czech Republic and not Ohio, it signaled to him that the church was a welcoming one.

ALGER — Motorists traveling past the small chapel on County Road 110 within eyesight of Ohio 235 will notice the quaint building of worship in the woods beside the home of Mark Lowery.

Two out of every three people diagnosed with cancer today are survivors. “We’re celebrating more birthdays,” said Heather Wedertz, chair of the 11th Hardin County Relay For Life which began Friday evening and was set to end about 8 a.m. today.