Trevor Zahara has been a volunteer usher at Ohio State home football games for 18 years. But that ended two weeks ago. When he begins his 19th season in the fall, Zahara said, all ushers will be paid, he told members of the Ohio State Alumni Club of Hardin County at their annual dinner and business meeting on Tuesday night in Kenton.

MOUNT BLANCHARD — The Riverdale girls track and field team recently held its awards ceremony and handed out several special awards.

The KHS summer football camp, which is being attended by approximately 70 youth, runs in the morning through Thursday.

There are a variety of ways to control algae bloom and vegetation growth in a pond ranging from treating it with chemicals to natural methods. Steve Fender prefers natural methods of stocking a pond with White Amur, also known as grass carp.

When two members of the Tender Loving Care Mother’s Club each lost a son in 1998, their fellow members planted trees at Kenton High School in their memory the following year.

The Northwest Ohio Envirothon was sponsored by the Area 1 Soil and Water Conservation District and was held at Paulding County Fairgrounds.

COLUMBUS — Hardin Northern’s Nicholas Bame and Upper Scioto Valley’s Megan Carey made the most of their trips to Columbus for the Division III state track and field meet, reaching the podium in their respective events on Saturday morning.