Four Kenton residents were cited following a disturbance Sunday afternoon. According to the Kenton Police Department report, officers were dispatched to the 600 block of East Carroll Street to investigate a fight in the front yard. Officers issued citations to: 42 year old Kenneth Johnson 38 year old Daniel Johnson 31 year old Ashley Hudson 43 year old Jonathan Steele. All were charged with disorderly conduct.
A building was damaged by fire in Wyandot County over the weekend. According to the report from the Wyandot County Sheriff's Office, a structure fire occurred at a residence located at 303 West 10th Street in Sycamore that resulted in moderate smoke and fire damage to the unoccupied structure. The Sycamore Fire Department was assisted by fire departments from Upper Sandusky and Wyandot East. Also assisting at the scene were the Hancock County Sheriff's Office and Sycamore […]
KENTON-Hardin Co. Soroptimist International announced the Club 250 winner for week 15. Dustin Cramer will receive $100. Club 250 is a fundraiser that helps to award scholarships to local women and girls.
The average price for a gallon of gas in Hardin County jumped 11 cents from last Monday AAA reported the average price for a gallon of regular grade gas was $2.33 today, compared to last Monday's $2.22. That was the cheapest price in our region to start the week. The most expensive is in Union County at $2.49 a gallon. The statewide average is at $2.47 a gallon, and the nationwide average stands at $2.48 a […]
BOWLING GREEN, OH – Congressman Bob Latta welcomes Congresswoman Liz Cheney, Conference Chair of the House GOP and highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, as the featured speaker at his 2019 Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. The dinner is scheduled for Monday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. and will be held at Sauder Village in Archbold. "As Chair of the GOP Conference, Congresswoman Cheney is on the front lines delivering the message of lower taxes, strong borders, and protecting our Constitutional rights," said […]
Five blood drives are scheduled in Hardin County in March. They will be held on: .March 15 from 2 till 8 S.E. Hardin N. W.. Union Joint Fire District blood drive will be in the community building in Mt. Victory. .March 18 from noon until 6 at the First Baptist Church in Kenton. .Two on March 25, from 11:30am to 5:30pm at Visiting Nurses and Hospice in Ada and noon until 6 at Kenton Moose Lodge. […]
A new report from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) confirms the importance of having working smoke alarms in your home. According to the NFPA report, almost three out of five home fire deaths happened in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. “We can’t underscore enough how critical it is to have properly installed and operating smoke alarms. The early warning from a smoke alarm provides precious time to get out and can be the difference […]
COLUMBUS – The Ohio Farmers Union added hemp cultivation and specific recommendations for Lake Erie water quality woes in its 2019 statement of public policy proposals. Adopted at its recent state convention in Lima, OFU’s ‘Special Orders of Business’ outline the organization’s legislative and executive branch priorities on both the state and national level for the year. Two topics new on OFU’s slate this year are industrial hemp production in Ohio and a call for state political leaders to lessen […]
COLUMBUS — The powerful painkiller Oxycontin, widely blamed for kickstarting the nation’s opioid crisis, will no longer be newly prescribed for injured workers in the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation’s system starting July 1. Following a recommendation from BWC Chief Medical Officer Terry Welsh, the agency’s Board of Directors voted today to drop the drug from the BWC formulary and replace it with what Welsh calls “an equally effective but harder-to-abuse drug” named Xtampza ER. “Xtampza is a sustained-release form […]
WKTN is a locally owned and operated radio station broadcasting from Kenton, Ohio since 1963.
Our broadcast covers Hardin County and into Allen, Auglaize, Hancock, Logan, Marion, Union, and Wyandot Counties including a majority of communities within.