It has been a long four years for Phillip and Katie Gwynn, but they would live them all over again given the chance. Today, the Kenton couple will graduate from the respiratory therapy program at Rhodes State College in Lima.

MONDAY, MAY 11 Kenton City Council – 7 p.m., chambers

Kenton Chief of Police John Vermillion spent time this week removing the pictures and plaques from his office. Starting Monday, it’s not his office any more. Vermillion announced his plans to retire earlier this year. This week marks the 38th year since he took on a uniform at the Kenton Police Department.

Robert Fortner admitted to killing his step-father Gary Wells Jr. in a 2009 arson fire in Kenton. He was 14 years old at the time. Today, Fortner is 19 and waiting to be released from the Department of Youth Services (DYS) on his 21st birthday in the fall of 2016.

A month ago it appeared Kenton’s Waterworks Park would be the focus of improvements through a proposed $300,000 Neighborhood Revitalization Grant. However, after Thursday night’s grant meeting, some City Council members said Waterworks Park is the last place money should be spent.

Kenton Head Start preschool teacher Pattie Ruvoldt and her students (clockwise from bottom left) Heather, Izabella, Baikyr and Andrea try to decide which healthy dairy item to put on their plate during the Lunches in a Bag program on Thursday afternoon.

John F. Gunn, 427 E. Ohio St., reported an unknown person or persons cut the two driver’s side tires on his vehicle while it was parked in front of his house. An officer responded to a report of domestic violence at 721 Lick St.

A Dola man was sent to prison for 11 months on a single drug charge in a case heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Kim Duane Gibson, 2411 Anthony St., Dola, entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of heroin and received the 11-month prison sentence.

Spring planting season started in earnest this past week in Hardin County. Farmers were in the fields doing tillage work, spreading fertilizer and manure, spraying for weeds and termination of cover crops, as well as planting corn. Warm dry temperatures aided in this progress, with the exception of some fields that were not quite fit to begin field work.