Hardin Memorial Hospital reported an unsteady subject leaving on foot. A report was received of a loud boom heard in the 400 block of Summit St.

MOUNT VICTORY — A new program at Ridgemont High School is arming students with certificates which are expected to help them snare jobs or gain entrance to colleges. The online program, called iCEF. Stephanie Jolliff, the agricultural education teacher and FFA advisor at Ridgemont, said the classes started last January and by the summer the students had their certification.

BELLEFONTAINE — Upper Scioto Valley is part of a three-school consortium through the Midwest Regional Educational Service Center planning to create a Career Network for students. The program is expected to be funded by a Straight A Fund grant through the Ohio Department of Education.

Doug Roberts was elected board president of the Hardin County Community School during the board’s reorganizational meeting on Jan. 26. Eric Hoffman will serve as vice president. The board set its monthly meetings for the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 a.m. in the school’s board room at 400 Decatur St., Kenton.

SATURDAY, FEB. 6 Hardin County Agricultural Society (fair board) – 7:30 p.m., fair office, fairgrounds

A report was received of a vehicle blocking an alley off of Ohio St. A theft was reported at Rent-A-Center.

The heat is on. The exhilarating heat of competition, the verbal heat of talking trash and the spicy heat of homemade chili. All the bragging and name calling will come to a good-natured end on Saturday at the conclusion of the first chili cookoff between members of the area law enforcement agencies and the local firefighters.

ADA — Long-needed masonry repairs to the Ada Municipal Building have finally been approved by council. Assistant Administrator Jamie Hall spoke with council at its regular meeting on Tuesday about the condition of the building.

ADA — The Ada Public Library has been awarded a Books for Children Grant from the Libri Foundation, a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new children's books to small, rural public libraries in the United States).

A suspicious vehicle was reported on Lima Street. An accident was reported in front of the post office on W. Franklin St.