Searching for a kidney Terri Hites-Suter is normally doing for others. In her job at the Hardin County Job and Family Services office, Hites-Suter is known to go the extra mile and beyond for clients. Read More
Five injured in U.S. 30 crash WILLIAMSTOWN — Five people were injured, two seriously, in a two-car crash Friday evening on U.S. 30 about two miles east of Williamstown. According to the Findlay Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred in the westbound lanes of U.S. 30 at Hancock County Road 183 at 6:02 p.m. Read More
Elks honors top teens for April The Kenton Elks Lodge honored teenagers of the month of April at their luncheon last week. Read More
Health department offering more vaccines, returning to schools for immunizations 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. Read More
Players plan humorous dinner theater 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. Read More
Riverdale Elementary honors top readers 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. Read More
Kenton students hear from illustrator of popular book 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. Read More
Accident clean-up 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. Read More
Honor Society Inductees 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; Read More
KMS Upstanders point to improved school climate 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. Read More