Grace Springer
News InternGrace Springer is a journalism student at Kent State University. She is the General Assignment Editor for KentWired and covers executive administration for student media.
Grace plays piccolo in the Marching Golden Flashes and is a member of Kent State Club Figure Skating.
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Progress Through Preservation successfully campaigned for the Glendale Steps to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. Now, they will begin a restoration project of the 100-year-old landmark.
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Five Akron firefighters will help staff local stations while local firefighters battle wildfires. The department is still stretched following the end of the city's contract with private ambulance service AMR.
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Pride is coming to Akron this weekend with an agenda of entertainers, vendors, a march and the first annual 5k race.
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Aug. 28 marks the anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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The U.S. EPA will hold free lead soil testing on Saturday at the Concerned Citizens Community Council at 13611 Kinsman Rd.
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The year's May 4 lecture will focus on Erica Eckert's research into how Kent State University's leadership responded in the days leading up to May 4, 1970, when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four and injuring nine others.
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This is the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Clinic has had an optional policy on masking. Officials say the decision comes as respiratory virus numbers are improving.
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A webinar addressing changes to citizen amendments to the Ohio constitution will be held on Zoom Tuesday. Ohio state lawmakers are trying to make citizen amendments harder to pass.
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Residents living in public housing in Cuyahoga Falls are getting free Wi-Fi through a partnership involving the city, Woodridge Local Schools and the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority.
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The counties receiving grants will use the funding to implement local projects to increase the quality of recyclable material, decrease contamination of recycling bins and improve drop-off recycling programs. The Ohio EPA estimates this project will impact over 190,000 households across the state.