Kenton’s downtown square will receive a spring cleaning in May. During a meeting of the Downtown Revitalization Committee this morning, plans for a spring cleanup of the courthouse square were announced.

There will be more than 200 items up for bid when the annual Hardin County YMCA Radio Days Auction take places from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday on Time-Warner Cable Channel 9 and WKTN Radio.

ADA — The Ada Village Council approved a resolution to participate in the Ohio Department of Transportation’s road salt summer storage program during a special meeting Tuesday.

FOREST — More than 20 community and business leaders attended a reorganizational meeting of the Forest Community Improvement (CIC) Wednesday at the Forest Jackson Public Library.

Correy Osborn doesn’t play with toys as much as many 10-year-old boys might do. But he loves his bike and he loves riding on the school bus every day to attend classes at Simon Kenton. There are many things Correy can’t enjoy, so to find things that give him pleasure is a personal victory, said his mother, Kristi.

A Kenton woman broke down in Hardin County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday morning and said stress had caused her to set a fire at her home last summer. Judge Scott Barrett praised defendant Wanda Ratliff for seeking help in dealing with that stress, but was bound by state law to declare her an arson offender.

BELLEFONTAINE — The current Kenton High School principal will be working in Bellefontaine when the new school year begins in August.

Hardin County posted a 4.9 percent unemployment rate in February, according to information released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

BELLEFONTAINE — A 77-year-old Rushsylvania woman admitted Monday she allowed her mother, Blanche Cowen, to live in squalid conditions for years and to eventually die under the care of a mentally-handicapped man barely capable of caring for himself.

Jeremy Petty and his three-year-old son had just returned to their West Carrol Street home in Kenton on Saturday afternoon and he was preparing to let the family dog out in the fenced-in back yard. But just as he started to open the sliding glass patio door, Petty looked out and saw two big pit bulls in his yard.