McGUFFEY — The Upper Scioto Valley School District came up with a glowing report card from its students. Guidance counselor Michelle Underwood and Student Advocate Danny Holbrook told the board the students in grades 6-12 were recently surveyed and asked questions on everything from family support to how much they are personally valued...

With little fanfare, the Kenton Board of Education on Monday night accepted the district’s five-year forecast through fiscal year 2020. It shows expenditures exceeding revenue for the next five years and a resulting narrowing of the district’s carryover from $4,364,673 at the close of fiscal year 2015 to a forecasted $1,728,470 by fiscal year 2020.

ALGER — The water meter system is nearly completed and the Alger Board of Public Affairs is preparing for the coming changes. Alger water consumers have paid $52 per month as their bulk rate, and the board is hoping to make the change in billing as painless as possible, members said Monday night.

ADA — With the help of a second .75 income tax levy approved by the voters in 2013, Ada Schools Treasurer Christy Beaschler’s five-year forecast for the district is looking up. While the five-year forecast uses some assumptions and is not 100 percent accurate, it offers the district a look at where it currently sits financially and where things are possibly headed.

ALGER — Concerns with safety on the main street through Alger was discussed by the town council Monday evening. For several years, council has discussed semi-trucks driving into people’s yards and close to their homes as they pass through Alger on Ohio 235.

The search for a new chief of police for the city of Kenton continues. Five officers who took the second test to become chief all came up short of earning a passing grade, the Kenton Civil Service Commission confirmed today at a meeting at the municipal building.

The history of Hardin County has been a subject Tim Striker is fascinated with, and it has been a great influence on his life. Striker is not originally from Hardin County.

In the early days of the 20th century, the happening place to be in Hardin County was Lake Idlewild. In its heyday the resort, just north of Kenton, was the meeting place for families, sports fans and fishermen throughout the state.

Sheep is a major part of the diets of residents of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and a group of local sheep producers just returned from a tour of those countries to gain a better insight of their methods. Steve and Madelyn Lowery, Nancy Wilcox, Dave Burkhart and Ohio Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Mark Badertscher took part in the tour sponsored by the OSU Extension Office and the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association.

A Kenton woman was placed on community control for five years after she was found guilty of possession of heroin and child endangerment in a case heard in Hardin County Common Pleas Court. According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Lindsey E. Holland, 16039 CR 115, Kenton, entered guilty pleas to the two charges.