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.

Members of the Hardin Memorial Hospital physical therapy staff participated in the Physical Therapists’ Day Of Service on Friday.

Sheep is a major part of the diets of residents of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and a group of local sheep producers just returned from a tour of those countries to gain a better insight of their methods. Steve and Madelyn Lowery, Nancy Wilcox, Dave Burkhart and Ohio Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator Mark Badertscher took part in the tour sponsored by the OSU Extension Office and the Ohio Sheep Improvement Association.

Due to the ban on poultry exhibits in Ohio, all 4-H and FFA poultry exhibitors across the state, including Hardin County, were unable to bring their poultry project birds to the county fairs. The Hardin County Fair Board stepped up and provided a generous poultry program at this year’s fair, including extensive poster display and contest, full showmanship show with fair board-purchased fake birds and full junior fair livestock sale participation to all with market poultry projects.

The real world is closer than ever for Kenton Middle School students. Instructor Jared Manns said the 7th and 8th graders are being exposed to engineering concepts used by working engineers.