ALGER — Alger Mayor Von Summa asked council at its meeting Monday night to adopt an ordinance addressing the issue of open burning in the village. While there are state regulations establishing the restrictions on the issues, Summa said the village should adopt its own set of guidelines.

ADA -- The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Community Facilities Program has awarded Ohio Northern University a $67.2 million loan to support a variety of campus initiatives, including funds to help construct a new 105,000-square-foot College of Engineering building.

Few businesses who offer their products at the Hardin County Fair have become more of a family tradition than the waffles stand on the midway. Three generations of the Buerger family have used their vacations and weekends to keep the customers satisfied with their product.

Estimated attendance for the Hardin County Fair was 56,415, according to figures released by Judi Cronley, secretary/treasurer. That is an increase of more than 2,000 from last year’s estimate of 54,376.

It was another successful Junior Fair Livestock Sale on Saturday at the Hardin County Fair. New records were set on premiums paid for four animals – champion barrow, reserve champion gilt, reserve champion goat and reserve champion turkey.

ADA — The Village of Ada’s water system will undergo studies next year as part of new environmental protection laws passed by the Ohio Legislature. Village Administrator Jamie Hall reported at Tuesday’s village council meeting that recent high-profile water system neglect case such as in Flint, Mich., have led to the passing of the laws that will be requiring asset management programs for drinking water systems to be in place by October of 2018.

ADA — Ada Mayor David Retterer took American Electric Power to task for its announced plans for a power outage to affect Ada and other communities on Aug. 26 – an outage that never materialized. Retterer, speaking at Tuesday’s village council meeting, said the outage was to occur for a two-hour time period.

Coming from a hospital setting, Regina Comstock has enjoyed the change of pace in seeing the smiling faces of school children each day. Entering her second month on the job, Comstock serves as the cafeteria supervisor for Kenton City Schools, with her office located at the elementary school.

A total of 909 tickets have been sold so far for the Lauren Alaina concert on Saturday night at the Hardin County Fair. Judi Cronley, fair secretary, reported the updated figures on Saturday night at the monthly meeting of the Hardin County Agricultural Society attended by 20 directors and 14 guests.

The man who is slated to take over Hardin County Job and Family Services on Oct. 1 is familiar with the jobs programs offered locally and is dedicating himself and his agency in continuing to address the public assistance needs of the county.