The Yellow Springs High School cross country team will sponsor the annual Village Fun Run on Sunday, Aug. 16, at 6:30 p.m., as an opener to the cross country team’s parent-coaches meeting at 5:45 that evening at the high school.

Games and practices for the fall season of the Youth Recreational Soccer program is scheduled to begin soon at Gaunt Park. The Morgan Building soccer fields are undergoing a major improvement project and will not be ready for play until 2009.

The annual Yellow Springs High School Soccer Alumni Games will be played on Saturday, Aug. 16, at the YSHS stadium. The girls’ game will kick off at 5:30 p.m., with the boys game beginning at 7:30 p.m.

More than 1,480 academics from liberal arts faculties and state and private universities around the country have signed a petition expressing their support for the efforts of the Antioch College alumni and faculty to save the college.

At a time when it seems to many that nothing can be done until everything is done to revive Antioch College, core alumni negotiators urged simplicity and focus on the number one task: separation of the college from Antioch University.

Three authors, three books, three very different journeys on the road to getting published. Chuck Colbert, Jaime Adoff, and Joanne Caputo talked about their recently published works and what they hope to bring to their readers.

The Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute will host a Community Open House at its new office at 113 East Davis Street on Friday, Aug. 15, beginning at 9 a.m. Numerous activities are planned for what organizers hope will be an entertaining and informative day-long event.

“Help create a teen space mural for the Yellow Springs Public Library. Make new friends! Wear fashionable safety glasses! Learn how to master a jigsaw, cutting intricate shapes out of wood with the blade only inches from your fingers! Amaze your friends! Worry your parents!

How do you say goodbye? Parting is such sweet sorrow. (Remember the 1970s best seller, Love Story by Erich Segal, and its promotional line, “Being in love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

Charles D. Dorsey died suddenly on Saturday, Aug. 2, during a visit with his grandmother, Mae Brown, at her residence in Yellow Springs. He was 43. Charles was born in Dayton, Ohio, on July 29, 1965.