The Hardin County Shelter for the Crossroads Crisis Center is being closed later this month, but its director said the intended plan when it opened more than five years ago to give sanctuary to victims of domestics violence never materialized.

Kenton City Council, at its meeting Monday night, received an update on a project to line the city’s downtown with banners of veterans and active duty personnel. Roger Crowe, a Hardin County commissioner who is leading the project, said community response has been strong.

McGUFFEY — The days of McGuffey residents paying a flat rate for water they use are drying up. Council took steps Monday evening to buy equipment needed to read the meters which have been installed for several years and to adjust the water bills to residents to meet Ohio Environmental Protection Agency demands.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — A former Riverdale teacher/coach was sent to prison for three years after admitting to a sexual involvement with a female student. According to a report from the Findlay Courier, Brooke Rosendale had been a fifth-grade intervention specialist at Riverdale.

In helping to battle the drug issue in Hardin County, Diana Carroll-Aghdam’s work is all made worthwhile when she sees how the data she collects is helping individuals. Diana is nearing one year with the Kenton-Hardin Health Department as part of a three-year Prescription Drug Overdose (PDO) grant through the Ohio Department of Health.

The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate an two-vehicle crash just south of Kenton which took the life of a Ridgeway man on Saturday evening. Killed in the crash was Brian Ansley of rural Ridgeway, according to a release from Sheriff Keith Everhart.

For each of the past two years when Hardin County residents gathered for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration in January, organizers and participants agreed the dialogue about race and other issues in the county needs to continue.

For several years, John and Traci Kraft thought they would not have children. So when Traci went to the doctor during her first pregnancy and quickly learned the child she was carrying had abnormalities to her brain, the couple was devastated. But in the six years since Mary was born, their daughter has been anything but a burden, the Krafts agreed. She is a ray of sunshine in their lives and teaches them life lessons on a daily basis.

FOREST — The water and sewer funds in Forest have been showing positive numbers in recent reports and if one member of council has his way, the residents will be fiscally rewarded for being good consumers.

MOUNT VICTORY — With the blocked railroad crossings in Mount Victory, those waiting in their vehicles haven’t been the only one’s to suffer. At Thursday’s regular council meeting, the train issue was once again brought up for discussion, this time from the point of view of property damage caused due to semi trucks taking alternate routes on smaller side streets to avoid the blocked crossings.