After more than 75 years in business, the Price Funeral Home is about to have a new owner. Members of the Price family are working on the final steps of selling their funeral homes in Kenton and Mount Victory to Blake McElroy, who has worked for them for the past three years.

For many years, the firefighters at the Kenton Fire Department have heard ambulances called into service with no EMTs available to respond to the call.

Much to the delight of Brylee Bostelman, 5, Yankee’s Dairy Queen in Kenton opened for the 2015 season on Thursday despite frigid temperatures. Bostelman braved the weather to make sure she could get her first ice cream cone of the year. Times photo/Ty Thaxton

The Kenton Elks honored the February Teenagers of the Month during a luncheon Thursday, Feb. 12. The students from five area schools were selected for their character, leadership, service, citizenship and scholarship. There were no students nominated from Hardin Northern.

A three-ton piece of history was purchased recently by a Hardin County native. The safe in the Erie Street Market in Toledo had made its home at the market for a century, but when the City of Toledo purchased the property, the safe and building were sold to the highest bidder. The purchaser was Charles Prater.

RIDGEWAY — June Titus was a junior at Ridgeway High School when she was handed a note from a senior boy. Dewey Ford was asking her to go with him to the Logan County Fair. She sent a message back saying she would like to go. Those handwritten notes began a relationship that was to make the couple inseparable for the next seven decades.

The last time a Hardin County history was published was more than 30 years ago. A group of volunteers is putting together an update which they hope to have available in time for this summer’s centennial celebration of the opening of the Hardin County Courthouse.

The Kenton Elks honored the January Teenagers of the Month during a luncheon Thursday, Feb. 12. The students from the six area schools were selected for their character, leadership, service, citizenship and scholarship.

Kenton Full Gospel Church (KFGC) Pastor Anita VanBuskirk and secretary Barb Manns accompanied the West Ohio Food Bank to the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday to share the experiences of the food pantry the church operates in Kenton.