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Logan Mark Bensavage celebrated his 7th birthday on Feb. 10. He shared his special day with family.

Dr. Jason Scotti, a board-certified family medicine physician and sports medicine specialist, values the patient-doctor relationships he develops at The Wright Center for Community Health Kingston Practice.

Lent is being observed from March 2 until April 14. Every season local eateries create a special menu for those who abstain from meat during the 40 day period, traditionally these menus will include seafood and pizza.

Inching closer to spring brings much to look forward to, and for many local businesses this means more events happening. For those looking to get into some fun in the next coming weeks, you’re in luck. Here’s a rundown of what’s happening in the community in the next few weeks. You may actually find it hard to choose between which events to go.

When Ava Groth participated in “Wreaths Across America” as a member of Mountain Top American Legion Junior Auxiliary Unit 781 last year, she noticed there were many graves that lacked attention.

Rice Elementary and Crestwood Secondary School’s Odyssey of the Mind teams competed in the NEPA regionals tournament and placed third and first place, respectively.

WILKES-BARRE TWP. — No students were injured as the driver of Crestwood Area School District bus suffered a medical emergency and became unresponsive while driving a bus with 13 Holy Redeemer High School students on board near the 600 block of Blackman Street.

Jars of peanut butter, canned spaghetti sauce, pasta and cereal; all things you would find in a donation box for the local food pantry. Balloons, vegetable oil, cake pan, streamers; usually not among those items collected. Yet the Saint Jude eighth-grade class decided that is just what they should collect to help those in need. Often food pantries do not stock items for visiting families to help them have a happy birthday. The eighth-grade class had the school community donate various items and the class then assembled the goodies into a “birthday in a bag” celebration. Items will be donated to local food pantries.

Crestwood High School’s football program will be hosting it’s second annual Food Truck Frenzy.

Two businesses hosting coloring contests this month are still accepting submissions from local child artists.