Improving the appearance of the community and getting some exercise in the process is the goal of a program developed by a Kenton family. Jerod and Amanda Hewitt, with their sons Ethen, 10 and Liam, 8, walked the length of North Main Street and back, picking up trash on Tuesday evening.

Christmas on the Square has been a Hardin County tradition for 30 years, but there will be no craft show or auctioning of baskets in the courthouse this fall. Jesse Purcell, Director of Chamber and Tourism at the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance, said the decision has been made to discontinue the event.

With classes scheduled to begin in Kenton City Schools on Thursday, the staff was invited to get the school year off to a positive start by a man known at “America’s Educator.”

McGUFFEY — Beginning this school year, students at Upper Scioto Valley will be visiting the battlefield of Gettysburg, touring the White House and seeing the peak of Mount Everest without ever leaving the district. The “field trips” are being made possible with new Google Goggles.

Kenton had a glimmer of good news on the income tax revenue front last month. For the first time since January, city income tax revenue increased during July when compared to last year’s figures, Mayor Randy Manns reported at Monday’s City Council meeting.

The Kenton Fire Department will be purchasing a new heart monitor for its medic engine thanks to a grant. Chief Tim Clark reported to City Council on Monday night that the KFD was awarded the $30,946.54 grant from Firehouse Subs.

ALGER — The Alger council started fresh with its plans to create a village administrator’s position and disband the board of public affairs at its meeting Monday night. In June, council had announced it would take action on an ordinance passed in 2000 which had established the post of a village administrator, but was never acted upon.

ALGER — A couple finishing a pre-fabricated home just outside the limits of Alger turned to the town council for help in annexing the property into the village and tying into the sewer system. Dean and Lisa Gamache said they had been to the township trustees and were given their blessings.

DOLA — Among the corn and bean fields of Washington Township in northern Hardin County, a small city has sprung up this summer. Complete with a series of new gravel roads to transport the beehive of activity in the crowded parking lot of the trailer community, construction workers, electricians and engineers are hard at work preparing for the arrival of parts which will become the 30 turbines of the Hog Creek Wind Farm.

A missing gun from a display at the Hardin County Courthouse has called attention to the need to increase security at Veterans Hall. In a letter sent to the commissioners Thursday shortly before he met face-to-face with them, Veterans Service Officer Steve Gossard reported he had been contacted by the Department of the Army regarding some rifles loaned out to be used for ceremonial purposes to the county.