McGUFFEY — The Village of McGuffey is hoping a Community Development Block Grant will be approved for its sewer project within the next two weeks. If the application is denied, the village could be forced to return a different $500,000 grant.

At Blanchard House in Kenton, the residents, staff, families and Executive Director Starla West all consider themselves one big family. Starla is nearing her sixth year with Blanchard House, and the best part of it all, she said, is that family atmosphere.

Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze at 0532 County Road 80, west of Alger, on Sunday evening, which has developed into a mystery. When the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher received a call, the caller said there might be someone trapped inside the burning house.

When the Make A Wish Foundation told Kaylee Ritter she was eligible for a trip with her family, the Kenton High School sophomore at first thought of attending a concert or seeing the sites of Europe, but then settled on a trip to Hawaii.

FOREST — Forest village officials call one of their workers a “hero,” but Jeff Moore brushes off such talk and said he was just in the right place at the right time to potentially save a life. Village Administrator Wes Davis made the town council aware of Moore’s response to an incident which took place on Jan. 10.

A lone gunman robbed the Kenton Rite Aid store of an undisclosed amount of narcotics Thursday night. According to a release from Kenton Police Chief Dennis Musser, a the gunman entered the store at 130 S. Detroit Street shortly before 8:45 p.m., brandished a handgun and demanded specific narcotics.

MOUNT VICTORY — The work being done by Mount Victory Mayor Mike Trout and the village council is not going unnoticed by residents. Laura Williams, former village mayor and co-owner of Mt. Victory Drive Thru, came to Thursday’s regular meeting to thank all the village officials for their continued work.

McGUFFEY — Every day in the United States, an average of 950 plus people suffer what we know it as sudden cardiac arrest,” said Doug LaRue, EMS Manager at Lima Memorial Health System and EMS Chief of USV Alger EMS. This equates to 350,000 people across the United States who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest event each year.

ADA — The Village of Ada has been named the ninth safest city in Ohio by HomeSnacks.net. According to a release from HomeSnacks, it based its rankings on numbers from the FBI's most recent report of crime (September 2017).

A Kenton man was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison after he was found guilty of theft charges in cases heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Zachary Tyler Ray, 627 E. Franklin St., Kenton, appeared in court on two separate cases.