April Richards and her son Kyler were among the participants in the mother and son Superhero Dance on Oct. 6 as a fundraiser at the Hardin County Family YMCA. Several little superheros were present.

ADA — Sam Quinones' best selling book "Dreamland" follows how the opioid crisis was spread across Ohio and into surrounding states. But as the author spoke to Ohio Northern University students, faculty and guests on Thursday at the Freed Center, he focused on the cultural changes in America which made the crisis possible.

ST. MARYS — Sidney Plott scored the lone goal of the game two minutes into overtime off a Jazmin Mendez pass to lift Kenton to a 1-0 win over St. Marys and give the Wildcats their first-ever girls soccer sectional championship. Kenton, which won for the second time in overtime in two tournament games this postseason, improves to 10-7-1 on the season.

McCOMB — There’s no question the Carey volleyball team has heavily relied on junior outside hitter McKenzie Row, the team’s most experienced returning player from last year, throughout the 2018 season. Row finished the regular season in the top five in the Northern 10 Athletic Conference in kills and among the conference leaders in aces and serve receiving.

After a 1 1⁄2-hour rain delay, the Ada High School Marching Band and Color Guard took the field earning first place in Class C on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the OMEA “Music in Motion” competition held at Maumee High School. The group earned Overall Best Visual Effect and Best Auxillary regardless of school size.

ADA – The Department of Theatre Arts of Ohio Northern University will present ‘Mystic India: The World Tour’ with the ONU Dance Company at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 27 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. ‘Mystic India: The World Tour, A Bollywood Dance Spectacular’ includes a special guest performance by the ONU Dance Company and is an internationally acclaimed Bollywood dance spectacular that combines authentic Indian and modern techniques bringing the streets of Mumbai and New York into perfect harmony.

Forest Village Administrator Wes Davis (left) and Police Chief Donnie Southward stand at the new firing range built on village property by the town's workers. The range allows for officers of the department to qualify for their certifications without needing to drive out of the community and pay for the testing, said Southward.

Employees at Sumitomo Bakelite High Performance Plastics (also known as Durez) spent Wednesday cutting weeds, picking up trash, spreading stone and other jobs to spruce the Hardin County Veterans Memorial Park for winter.

After an unbeaten regular season, the Kenton boys soccer got one final chance to play on its home field when it hosted Bath in a sectional final game on Wednesday night. The Hardin County Wildcats took care of business as they netted three goals in the first half and added four more tallies in the first 20 minutes of the second half on the way to a 7-0 win over their Allen County namesakes.

ELMORE — Woodmore’s Hayden Heidebrink scored on a penalty kick with 9:53 remaining as the No. 2 seed Wildcats held off No. 5 Riverdale, 3-2, in a Division III sectional semifinal match Wednesday in Elmore. While a match-deciding penalty kick often is disputed, it was the first two goals by Woodmore that were more controversial.