FOREST — About 572 AEP Ohio customers in and around Forest lost power about 6:43 a..m. today, according to the company’s website, as temperatures rose overnight to bring an icy mess into the area. Power was expected to be restored by late morning.

Plans are moving forward for the development of the Hardin Wind Energy farm. Construction of turbines in the western portion of Hardin County are to begin in the summer or fall this year, according to a spokesperson for Invenergy LLC.

Economic development issues highlighted the Kenton City Council meeting on Monday night. Most of the focus was on rezoning land for a 300,000-square-foot warehouse on the city’s south edge to serve Kenton’s International Paper plant.

Kenton Police Department, Chief Dennis Musser praised a collaborative effort between police, council and the administration for many accomplishments during 2016. Speaking at Monday’s City Council meeting, Musser said it was a rough year, but one that proved to be very educational.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — During its reorganizational meeting Monday evening, the Riverdale Board of Education heard the concerns of representatives of the school’s academic, athletic and music boosters. Among the topics of discussion was the needed resurfacing of the school’s all-weather track.

For the fourth consecutive year, Kenton City Schools will close for the Hardin County Fair after it begins the next academic year. The board of education adopted a calendar for the 2017-18 school year at its meeting Monday night.

McGUFFEY — Work on the new Invenergy wind turbines which are to be constructed on the farmland owned by the Upper Scioto Valley School District will not interrupt the crops which will be planted on the land in the spring.

TUESDAY, JAN. 10 Ridgemont Board of Education – 6:30 p.m., school conference room; reorganizational meeting

Friday The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a possible drug overdose at 407 Smith Ave.

Dave Beazley was raised with the mindset that it was his duty to give back to those from which he took. That is what has led him to serve on the Kenton City Council, work for Rogers Nationwide Insurance and participate in Society Singers.