The Cincinnati Enquirer

DEERFIELD TWP. - A familiar face will take over Kings High School's track team this spring.

Jim Brant, Kings' men's cross-country head coach since 1999 and winter track coach, has been named head spring track team coach.

Brant has coached his cross-country runners to five consecutive league championships, and for five years has been named Fort Ancient Valley Conference coach of the year.

This season, Brant coached his men's cross-country team to the Division I state tournament - the first ever for a Kings athletic team - where it finished fourth.

Brant sports an 88.7 percent win record, accumulating 944 wins to 120 losses over five years.

Springmyer students run holiday food drive

GREEN TWP. - Fifth-graders in the Volunteer Outreach Leadership Training program at Springmyer Elementary School led a holiday canned food drive with the Oak Hills Kiwanis and the Green Township Police Department.

Springmyer's 382 students collected more than 5,500 nonperishable food items, some going door to door in their neighborhoods.

Kids help make, stuff stockings for ProKids

EAST WALNUT HILLS - Fourth- through sixth-graders in Mercy Montessori's Little Red School House partnered with ProKids to make hand-sewn and decorated stockings for all 200 of the group's clients.

The students personalized each one with the first name of the child.

They then stuffed the stockings with candy, pens, playing cards and other small gifts.

Science museum brings its programs to Union

UNION - Students at New Haven Elementary School in Boone County spent their last school days before winter break learning about sports and physics by doing both in the gym.

All students participated in the COSI on Wheels program, which brings the Columbus-based hands-on science programs to schools.

New Haven students played games to test their depth perception, learned about Newton's laws of motion and gravity and reinforced the importance of wearing protective gear during sports.

Princeton programs conform to standards

GLENDALE - Princeton City Schools recently received notice that all eight of the district's prekindergarten programs were in full compliance with standards established by the Ohio Department of Education's Office of Early Childhood.

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