The Kenton Elks Lodge honored teenagers of the month of April at their luncheon last week.

Meningitis and shingles are serious health concerns, but can be controlled through immunization, said nurse Mindy Hensel of the Kenton-Hardin Health Department. The vaccines are now offered at the health department.

The Hardin County Players will present a humorous and emotional interpretation of the play, “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” as a dinner theater April 8-10 at the Kenton Elks. An adult content play, it features monologues and ensemble pieces “about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects: mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black,” according to a release from the Players.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale students in grades 2-6 competed in the district’s Reading Olympics during the month of February. The medal winners were honored Wednesday at the school.

To young readers, pictures in a book are almost as important as the words. Kenton Elementary School students on Tuesday learned how those pictures get on the pages during a presentation by cartoonist/illustrator Wes Molebash.

First responders work to contain and clean up the scene of an overturned truck in the 21,000 block of Ohio 67, eight miles northeast of Kenton on Tuesday afternoon. The driver of the truck, Isaac Wise, was cited for failure to control after his truck blew a tire, causing it to go off the side of the road and overturn, according to a report from the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office.

Nineteen Kenton High School students were inducted into the Simon Kenton Chapter of the National Honor Society at a ceremony at the school on Tuesday evening. Inductees are (from left, front) Daisy White, Madison Blevins, Ryan Oberlitner, Breanna Miller, Shelby Pfeiffer;

Improving the school climate is the goal of the Kenton Middle School Upstanders Club, which made a presentation to the school board Monday night. Teacher Traci Jones said the program developed after hearing an anti-bullying speaker last year encourage students not to be a bystander, but to be an upstander.

No longer in the construction field, Trent Bass is enjoying the newfound free time he has with regular work hours as the assistant Hardin County engineer. Bass spent three years working in the Toledo area for the Fredericktown-based Kokosing Construction as a project superintendent.

Kenton High School students hoping to secure jobs in the health field have an advantage thanks to the Allied Health and Nursing program. The program is in its first year, noted instructor Deb Purcell, RN, but has already brought benefits to the KHS students.