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Four Kenton High students attended the Health Occupations Students of America Future Health Professionals Leadership Conference. It was held this past Friday September 30 in Marysville. The students attending were Brock Heckathorn, Angel Forester, Allison Harpel, and Haylee Wise. Students connected with other HOSA members and played ice breaker games. They also discussed upcoming competitions, fundraisers, and ways to serve and give back to their community.

The United Way of Hardin County Board of Directors announced Sean Beck as the new executive director.  Beck has been previously working as the emergency response coordinator for the Kenton-Hardin Health Department and is a current Village of Ada councilor.  He brings several years of customer driven results, event coordination and program enhancement experience to this position.  The Board of Directors stated that they are excited for this new chapter […]

Ohio Northern University and the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to announce that the 57th Town and Gown Banquet is to be held Monday, November 7th at 6:00 PM in the McIntosh Ballroom at Ohio Northern University. Doors open at 5:30 PM. We will be honoring the 2022 Distinguished Person of the Year & welcoming new businesses and persons to the Ada/ Ohio Northern community. Tickets for the […]

(l-r) Chief Deputy Dennis Burns, Deputy Amber Joseph, Sgt. Chuck Mulligan and Sheriff Keith Everhart Hardin County Sheriff's deputies Sgt. Chuck Mulligan and Deputy Amber Joseph recently completed and graduated from the D.A.R.E. Officer Training Course.   The 2 -week high intensity course provides certification for teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education curriculum to elementary and high school students.   Sgt. Mulligan serves as the School Resource Officerat Upper Scioto Valley School. […]

Sandusky County – The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reminding both pedestrians and motorists that safety is a shared responsibility. Since 2017, there have been 14,466 pedestrian-related crashes on Ohio’s roadways. Of those, 843 were fatal crashes involving the deaths of 847 pedestrians.During this time, 48 percent of pedestrian-related crashes occurred between 6 and 11:59 p.m. One in three pedestrian-related crashes occurred on a Friday or Saturday. Pedestrians were at […]

ADA, Ohio Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering received a $748,839 grant from the National Science Foundation to assist academically successful students who are financially challenged. The grant will enable ONU to provide them with significant scholarships and programming. Beginning in Fall 2023, the S-STEM grant, the first NSF S-STEM award for ONU, will support 15 Scholars. Students who are accepted into the program will receive a $7,750 […]

Hardin County Business and Professional Women’s Club met on Sept. 28 at 5:30 p.m. at Kenton’s Royal Buffet. Five members and two guests, Denise D’Arca and Carol Steegman, were welcomed by Pres. Sandy Moore. Hostess Norma Frederick introduced speaker Carol Steegman, Program Assistant and Kenton Historical Courthouse District Coordinator for the Hardin Co. Chamber & Business Alliance. She began in May after working in Hancock Co. and brings 13 years […]

Dr. Luke Myers BLUFFTON, Ohio—Dr. Luke Myers, associate professor of physics at Bluffton University, will present the Colloquium, “New Deuteron Compton Scattering Results from MAX IV.” It will start at 4 p.m. on Friday, October 14 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall on the Bluffton campus. During the presentation, Myers will discuss a new way of analyzing data taken from deuteron Compton scattering. Myers states that “deuteron Compton scattering is […]

COLUMBUS – AAA, The Ohio Department of Insurance, Ohio State Highway Patrol and Ohio Department of Natural Resources want to remind motorists of the increase in deer-related traffic crashes this time of year. Since 2017, statistics from the Ohio State Highway Patrol show there were 101,912 deer-related crashes on Ohio’s roadways. While 95 percent of deer-related crashes only resulted in property damage, 29 crashes resulted in fatal injuries to motorists, […]