Danny L. Risner (left) puts the finishing touches on the barber’s pole at Espy Barbers as Lewis Meddles looks on. Risner, who has been a lifelong customer at Espy Barbers, said he volunteered to paint the pole out of a spirit of community pride.
Shaffer’s Auto Body and Paint has donated two colorful afghans to be raffled off to raise money for Not By Choice Outreach. The purple Survivor Afghans will be on display at the NBC office on the square in Kenton and the pink afghan can be seen at Shaffer’s offices on Harris Street in Kenton.
“Duke” Rapp was born to be a farmer. He was born on a farm in Hale Township and has spent nearly every one of his 100 summers farming including working on this year’s wheat harvest at the age of 99.
Kenton High School’s Top Twenty will be in a “glass house” for everyone to see during this season’s performances. “The Glass House” is the theme for the show choir’s competition performance, where “someone’s always watching.” “It’s kind of like ‘Big Brother,’” Director Todd Daquino said.
Visitors coming to or driving through northern Hardin County on U.S. 68 are greeted by four decaying houses on the eastern side of the roadway. The days of those dubious landmarks appear to be numbered.
DUNKIRK — Rebecca Shirk recently discovered she had a message to share with others, and the best way for her to do that was through writing a book. “To You With Love” is the result of her work, a story about God’s love and “how he had re-built his love to me in my life, and how it can change a person’s life.”
With Kenton’s street department garage in need of major repairs, City Council’s choice seemed to be between repairing the structure or constructing a new building. Instead, a third option materialized which council decided to pursue.
An Amish farmer harvests the wheat crop at his farm in Buck Township on Monday afternoon.
Despite the hot weather, a large crowd gathered at the park for a day of activities, food and fun.
As soon as Rev. Tomas Pistora came to Kenton’s Trinity United Presbyterian Church in 2003, he knew he’d joined a community that embraces everyone. Pistora was asked by Trinity to be its pastor while he was working for a presbytery in Toledo. Because he is originally from the Czech Republic and not Ohio, it signaled to him that the church was a welcoming one.
