Female leaders of Holland throughout the village’s first 100 years were recognized by council at the March 21 meeting. They are Mabel Hovey, the first mayor, and council women Gladys Caulkins, Joanne Leonard, Patricia Kaiser, Mary Visco, Sandy Burditt, Heather Eppard, Helen Darrah, Elaine Olsen and Bonnie Ostrander.

Springfield Township is ordering a new fire truck, but it won’t be arriving anytime in the near future. At the March 20 meeting, the trustees authorized the purchase of a fire engine from Sutphen Fire Apparatus at a cost not to exceed $800,000.

To continue the summer concert series in downtown Toledo this year, the Lucas County commissioners approved the allocation of $100,000. At the March 14 meeting, the commissioners agreed to help ProMedica continue the summer entertainment at Promenade Park, contending that the concerts “attract tens of thousands to the downtown riverfront each summer, stimulating robust economic activity.” ProMedica has had to scale back its funding for the program and has, as a result, cut the series in half from eight to four acts this summer and seek alternate sources of funding.