Kenton High School is celebrating homecoming this week with a list of activities including the crowning of a queen prior to Friday's football game against Van Wert at Robinson Field. The senior candidates competing for the crown are (from left, front) Haley Hunt, Elizabeth Heintz and Peyton Flint.

ADA — Kenton proved to be little trouble for Ada as the host Bulldogs swept the Wildcats 25-17, 25-22, 25-17 in a volleyball matchup of the Hardin County rivals.

MOUNT VICTORY — Erica O’Keeffe believes she has landed in her dream job with Ridgemont Local Schools. Erica is in her first school year as Ridgemont’s Principal of Curriculum and Instruction, a position she feels is ideally suited for her.

Nearly 200 people took part in the third annual Hardin County Suicide Awareness and Prevention Walk on Sunday in Kenton.

Teresa Herzog presents a check for $5,000 to Michael Schoenhofer, Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize and Hardin Counties.

Trailing Hardin Northern 24-20 in game one, the Kenton volleyball team could have conceded the Polar Bears the final point and gone into game two down a set. Instead the Lady Wildcats scrapped back to score six straight points to claim the first game and then carried the momentum through the next two games to sweep the visiting Polar Bears 26-24, 25-13, 25-21 in the battle of Hardin County rivals.

WEST LIBERTY — The Ben Logan boys were fourth of 13 teams and Kenton was 10th at the Ohio Caverns Cross Country Invitational on Saturday. Leading the way for the Raiders was Bryson Tipton, who was third of 144 runners in a time of 17:05.7.

Ridgemont student Ruth Eckstein lines up some of the 400 pinwheels which spin in the morning breeze to welcome students to school Friday. Students throughout the school decorated and created the pinwheels as part of the Pinwheels for Peace program.

Alex Rothlisberger (left) and Alec Loveridge were crowned the 2018 Riverdale homecoming queen and king prior to the Falcons’ football game against Vanlue Friday night.

About a dozen walkers circled the Hardin County Courthouse square Friday morning to call attention to the dangers of falling among senior citizens.