The Kenton Times will publish a morning edition Friday in advance of the Independence Day holiday on Saturday. The newspaper staff will finish putting the paper together tonight for the early publication time.

BELLEFONTAINE — The Midwest Regional Educational Service Center, which provides educational services to schools in Hardin, Logan and Shelby counties, hired two administrators at its June 25 board meeting. Dave Shellhaas was hired to be the Director of Curriculum and Instruction.

ResponsibleOhio, a group behind a petition effort to legalize marijuana use in Ohio, reports obtaining 1,253 signatures from Hardin County in its effort to qualify for the November ballot. On Tuesday the group delivered 695,273 petition signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office.

LIMA — Rhodes State Community College will present career planning and job seminars every Thursday in July from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Hardin Northern Public Library in Dunkirk.

THURSDAY, JULY 2 Alger Public Library Board of Trustees – 6:30 p.m. at the library; special meeting to discuss library funding needs for 2016

All Kenton Elementary School students will be offered breakfast for free during the 2015-2016 school year. The board, during a special meeting this morning, approved a free breakfast in the classroom program for the students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

The Kenton Board of Education approved the hiring of seven new teachers and a high school guidance counselor, and OK’d a free breakfast program for all elementary students for the 2015-2016 school year during a special meeting this morning.

DOLA — Hardin Northern Elementary Principal Sally Henrick gave her final report to the school board at its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Sam Francisco, 660 N. Detroit St., reported the theft of his cell phone while at Sisters Midway Restaurant, 350 W. Franklin St. He advised that when he went to pay, he laid his phone down at the cash register and paid. He then went back and the phone was gone.