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A new memorial wreath marker adorns the Milton grave of Trimble County native and slain Cleveland, Ohio police officer Virgil T. Bayne.

The commemorative marker was donated by the Greater Cleveland Peace Officer’s Memorial Society in memory of Bayne, who at the time of his death in 1937, had served for 17 years as a patrolman with the Cleveland Police Department.

Daylight Savings Time will begin this year on Sunday, March 10. Many remember April and October as being the months for the annual time changes in years past but federal law moved the time changes to March and November.

Daylight Savings Time will end and we’ll return to Standard Time on Sunday, Nov. 3.

Clocks will advance one hour at 2 a.m. on March 10. In November, clocks will drop back one hour.

King’s Daughters’ Health and Trilogy Health Services, LLC have reached an agreement for Trilogy to purchase the downtown hospital and convert it into a senior living facility. Trilogy Health Services will take possession of the hospital on April 1, 2013 and immediately begin renovations at a cost of three to four million dollars. The new facility, which has not yet been named, will open in early 2014 and will provide an estimated 100 to 120 new jobs in the local area.

The much-anticipated “slide” of the new, wider Milton-Madison Bridge is scheduled to take place this summer, marking near-completion of the bridge replacement project. While the event is currently expected to occur in mid-July, the schedule is dependent on weather and subject to change.

Meanwhile, work continues when weather permits on installation of the stay-in-place decking materials preparatory to pouring the concrete decking on the new bridge truss and the Milton approach ramp.