Alger BPA, mayor and council disagree on use of village workers ALGER — There seems to be more work to do in Alger than workers to get it done. During the board of public affairs meeting on Monday night, Mayor James Summa and council members suggested that one of their workers could be freed up to assist village worker Bill Shepherd with repairing streets.... Read More
Red Cross campaign team to visit mobile home parks in Kenton Red Cross Home Fire Preparedness Campaign teams will visit two mobile home parks in Kenton during May to install smoke alarms in homes that need them. It is part of a nationwide campaign to reduce the number of deaths and injuries due to home fires by 25 percent by 2019. Read More
Police Reports: May 2, 2016 A report was received of a stolen firearm from a vehicle at 139 E. Railroad St. Read More
Top teens in county Each of Hardin County’s six school districts named their Teenagers of the Year. They were recognized at a banquet at the Kenton Elks Lodge on Sunday evening with their parents and school administrators looking on. Read More
Prosecutor says county’s drug treatment efforts misrepresented by ’60 Minutes’ A week ago, the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes aired a segment which featured Hardin County and the heroin epidemic it faces. Prosecutor Brad Bailey, who was a central part of the report, said “60 Minutes” misrepresented his office and failed to report the progress made in the county in dealing with the opiate problems. Read More
Downtown cleanup Helping to spruce up Kenton’s downtown on Saturday morning by planting flowers in the big pots around the square are (from left) Peg Wren, Jacqualine Fitzgerald and her son, Riley. Read More
Shade at the pool Mayor Randy Manns (right) proclaimed Friday as Arbor Day in the city at a tree-planting ceremony at the Kenton Municipal Pool. Read More
Tree talk Ada Assistant Village Administrator Jamie Hall (center) shares the three “Ps” of planting a tree with the third-graders at Ada Elementary School. Read More
Robotic movement Ridgemont sixth-graders Shaina Hamilton (left), Whitney Bailey and Aliyah Musson try their hand at maneuvering a wooden block at the Ohio Northern University’s Taft Hall on Friday. Read More
Veterinarian retiring Dr. Gary Kinnison (left) announced he is retiring and closing his Kenton Animal Care Clinic, located on West Franklin Street in Kenton. Read More
