McGUFFEY — Upper Scioto Valley’s National Honor Society chapter inducted nine new members Wednesday at the school. The new inductees are Croft Bauer, Kayla Broseke, Winona Clark, Dakota Cornell, Keaton Cox, Peyton Dyer, Aaron Goubeaux, Tayler Lawrence and Alexandra Shirk.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale seemed to be in trouble Wednesday night against Bluffton in a Division III volleyball postseason opener. The Falcons dropped two straight games and were trailing 8-5 in the decisive fifth game.

The remote Fort McArthur Cemetery, west of Kenton, contains sixteen graves marking the resting place of some of Hardin County’s earliest white residents. Despite its off-the-road location, the cemetery is well-maintained by the Cessna Township trustees and is visited regularly as is evident by the many coins and mussel shells left on top of the gravestones in honor of those …

MOUNT BLANCHARD — Riverdale boys soccer coach Jon Hayfield saw almost everything he wanted to from his team Saturday night in the Falcons’ regular-season finale. “I was about 95 percent fully impressed and that is a rare utterance out of my mouth,” Hayfield said after a 2-1 victory over Ottoville.

The history of Hardin County has been a subject Tim Striker is fascinated with, and it has been a great influence on his life. Striker is not originally from Hardin County.

Colorful pumpkins are created by members of the Manns family, (from left) Jackie, Alysa, Bobbi and Lyric at Saturday’s annual Fall Fest at Wharton Park in Kenton.

In the early days of the 20th century, the happening place to be in Hardin County was Lake Idlewild. In its heyday the resort, just north of Kenton, was the meeting place for families, sports fans and fishermen throughout the state.