RIDGEWAY — Ridgemont students and staff will extend their school days to make up for time lost due to recent weather. The board of education Thursday night approved a memorandum of understanding with the Ridgemont Education Association which involves a change only in the current school year calendar and is non-precedent setting.

For over 10 years, the National Weather Service (NWS) from Wilmington has provided weather spotter training classes in Hardin County, usually in the month of March.

Work began this morning on the demolition of the former Espy Elementary in Kenton.

ADA — For the past five months, senior citizens have been encouraged to make their way to the ReStore Community Center in Ada, find a dance partner and move to the music. On the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, from 2 to 4 p.m., ReStore opens its doors to any seniors who want to get up and dance.

Eighteen students participated in the 2014-2015 Kenton Elementary School Robotics Club.

The Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Hardin County is hosting an Easter Silent Basket Auction as a fundraiser for the local chapter.

DUNKIRK — The Kenton-Hardin Health Department will offer free blood pressure screens on Friday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Hardin Northern Public Library. The library is located at 153 N. Main St., Dunkirk.

THURSDAY, FEB. 26 Ridgemont Board of Education – 5 p.m., high school library

ADA — There is a lot of local history in Ada and Ohio Northern University students have studied the past of their host town for many years. Some have researched Dr. Martin Luther King’s visit in the late 1960s. Others have turned in papers, no doubt, on the founding of the university and the people who made that happen.

Coming off what may be the best year for economic development in the county’s history, leaders of the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance hope to continue to capitalize on that momentum with a new five-year strategic plan.