This year’s Hardin County Council On Aging Senior Day celebration featured a prom theme with decorations, dancing and gowns.

Defensive driving skills, part of the Maria’s Message campaign, were brought to Kenton High School on Friday for prom awareness. Newland-Heydinger Insurance Agency in Kenton teamed up with the Maria Tiberi Foundation and Kenton City Schools to promote the program.

Members of the YMCA board and friends of the Y organized a county-wide Father Daughter Spring Fling which was held Saturday, April 25 at the Hardin County YMCA. More than 300 fathers and daughters attended the event, which was an evening filled with memory-making fun.

Ohio 67 west from County Road 75 to Township Road 85 may be restricted to one lane through the work zone during the week for a drainage project, according to the Ohio Department of Transportation in Lima.

Wade Travis Stauffer, Lima – speeding 49 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25.

Ross O. Stevenson to Ronald E. Stevenson and wife, .115 acres, Ada Lands, in part of Section 22, Liberty Twp. Tax $260.

BELLEFONTAINE — For the third straight year, Mary Rutan Hospital was among an elite group of hospitals to achieve Healthgrades’ 2015 Outstanding Patient Experience Award.

COLUMBUS – Growers who want to make sure they get their corn crops off to a good start this season should make sure they perform tillage only when necessary and under the proper soil conditions, cautions a field crops expert with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.

COLUMBUS – While cold weather and cool soil temperatures have made many Ohio corn fields unsuitable yet for spring planting, growers who haven’t begun planting shouldn’t worry because there’s still time to plant and expect good yields, said an agronomist with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.

WOOSTER – Large populations of black cutworms reported last week in Indiana and Kentucky means Ohio farmers can soon expect to see the migratory moths in the Buckeye State, an entomologist with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University said.