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If the final week of February felt like winter’s last stand, this weekend offers the first real sign that the season is finally turning. This Sunday, March 8, the clocks officially “spring forward” one hour at 2:00 a.m., giving the region its first stretch of late-evening day-
light since last fall. While nobody loves losing an hour of sleep on a Sunday morning, the trade-off is finally here… the sun will set an hour later starting Sunday night! Let’s face it, that extra hour of light is truly a welcomed shift. This weekend is also the best time to handle some needed safety tasks. While you are going around
the house to reset your stove, microwave, and wall clocks on Saturday night, take a moment to test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Fire officials recommend swapping out the batteries in these devices twice a year, and there is no easier way to remember than doing it when the clocks change. There’s been plenty of local debate this week about whether
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March “came in like a lion or a lamb”. Typically, the folklore says that if the month starts with a roar, it ends with a whisper. Interestingly, March 1 was actually pretty tame. After the freezing wind chills we saw at the end of February, the month officially started like a lamb. The big question now is whether that lateFebruary cold was the only “lion”
we had to deal with, or if winter has one more surprise waiting for us before the official start of spring on March 20. For now, the hope is that the milder weather is here to stay. With spring just two weeks away, the countdown is officially on. Even if the weather takes another turn, at least we’ll be able to see it coming in the daylight!