Maj. Gen. James Rainey assumed command of the U.S. National Support Element - Afghanistan and duties as the U.S. Forces Afghanistan, Deputy Commanding General - Support from Maj. Gen. Mike Murray during a change of command ceremony Saturday.

Often people have to make sacrifices, or tough choices, to go after their goals. That’s exactly what 2013 Kenton High graduate Terrill Webb has had to do.

A Kenton man spent two weeks on his hands and knees in an Israeli cave this summer searching for human remains and tools at an archaeological site estimated to be at least 50,000 years old. John Dulin was part of a group of students and professors from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland to travel to the Manot Cave in western Galilee.

The crew at Helping Hands Outreach feels as if they have “too many irons in the fire” at this time of the year. The volunteers are preparing for Saturday’s Kids Day at Kenton’s Wharton Park, they are also taking applications for school supply assistance, planning a community spaghetti dinner, a Thanksgiving meal and the annual Christmas support program.

The construction crew and architects for the new Mid-Ohio Energy Cooperative facility are joined by the company’s CEO John Metcalf (second from right) in breaking ground this morning for the building, located on Ohio 309 at Kenton’s west edge.

Workers from the DMK Development Group place the expansion joints for a roof for one of the buildings at the new Ada retirement center on the town’s northern limits. According to Project Superintendent Benji Curtis, when the facility is completed, it will feature 42 units in the skilled care portion and 37 assisted living units.

FOREST — From playing a cop in a game of “cops and robbers” while growing up in Forest, Donny Southward now serves the village as its police chief. Ever since those times a child, Southward said, he’s always wanted to be in law enforcement.