The Latter Rain Southern Gospel Quartet will be performing at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 at Kenton Full Gospel Church, 129 N. Wayne St., Kenton.

FOREST — The roadway which the Forest council has been working on for several years is now officially called Buckeye Street. The street connects Lima Street with Sandusky Avenue just east of Buckeye Machine Fabricators.

The Kenton Little League will be presenting a day of “tributes” during its first ever Outdoor Concert fundraiser from 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Home Run Memorial Park. On the bill for the eight-hour show will be five bands - all hailing from the North Central Ohio and Columbus areas - headlined by New Frontiers, a quintet that is billed as the “definitive” Journey tribute band.

Hardin County Historical Museum Director Sheena Striker is ready to dip ice cream at Saturday's ice cream social at the Sullivan-Johnson Museum in Kenton. The museum will offer Velvet ice cream at the event from 1 to 4 p.m.

Noteworthy Community Choir is auditioning for three choirs in two locations: Ada and Lima, announced Vicki Mills, director. Expressions is an inter-generational choir for singers ages 13-83+, Voices for ages 8 – 18, and Sounds for ages 7 – 11.

The Kenton High School class of 1951 met for its 67th class reunion on Saturday, July 28 at Henry’s Restaurant. The group was welcomed by Marcella Parrott Shepherd, chairperson. Marcella gave the invocation before the lunch.

Matt Rosso, of H.K. Shordorff of Willard, uses a torch to cut out the boiler at the Hardin County Courthouse on Wednesday. The boiler was installed in 1961, said Maintenance Director Richard Lawson, and it replaced the heating system which was housed in the armory and piped heat to the courthouse.

The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Kenton will celebrate summer with its annual festival on Sunday. As usual, there will be a selection of donated baskets to raffle off.

Winners in the coloring contest at the Forest-Jackson Public Library were recently announced. They included (from left) pre-K – Carlington Weaver; grade 3 – Hannah Vent; grade 4 – Jazmyn Robinette; first grade – Clara Tracy; grade 2 – Mackenzie Thiel; kindergarten – Savannah Biship.

Kenton’s Garrett Wise (left) reverses the ball against a Marysville player during the Wildcats’ scrimmage against the Monarchs on Wednesday afternoon. The Wildcats, who open the regular season at 7 p.m. Aug. 17 against Ben Logan, topped Marysville 1-0 and tied Ottawa Hills 0-0 in the scrimmage.