The Springfield Beautification Committee has been up and running, and brought back a building favorite– Ceiling Tile Student Art. The members held their first round of inviting student input of the selection of tiles back in the fall.

Springfield Local Schools remains committed to providing students with career exposure through the use of multimedia. Over the past two years, funding secured through an Expanding Opportunities Grant has allowed the district to add two digital audio recorders providing students the ability to conduct remote (not in classroom/studio) interviews.

March is National Reading Month and two local children’s authors have teamed up to inspire young readers through animals, illustrations and art. Katie Maskey and Allison Aey were scheduled to be part of the Katherine Schwarzenegger Book Fair at Lourdes University on March 4.

As climate disasters, blood donation needs and other emergencies upend lives, local community heroes are stepping up to care for one another. This March, the American Red Cross Northern Ohio Region is honoring those who make its mission possible during the 80th annual Red Cross Month celebration–a national tradition that began in 1943 when President Franklin D.

The Hibernians, an Irish-American Catholic organization, will host their annual St. Patrick’s celebration on Friday, March 17, from 4 to 10 p.m. at St. Clement Hall, 2990 Tremainsville Road, Toledo.

Concept2—an American manufacturer of rowing equipment and exercise machines— confirmed that Notre Dame Academy’s rowing team broke the world record in large team longest continual row. The 64-hour record was set over President’s Day weekend.

The City of Toledo passed an ordinance that requires all 1-4 unit residential rental properties and family childcare homes built prior to 1978 to receive a Lead-Safe Certificate from the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.

The annual spring clean-up of the Springfield Township Cemetery by the Department of Public Services will begin in April. Andrew Hohlbein, cemetery sexton, is asking that all winter grave decorations and other items, including shepherd hooks, which are not permitted, be removed from gravesites by April 1, or the cemetery attendants will remove them.