The Central Chapel A.M.E Church is celebrating its 145th anniversary next weekend, Sept. 17–19, with a Friday evening banquet, Saturday afternoon picnic and two worship services on Sunday.

Valena Randolph died Thursday, Sept. 1, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 61.

Friends of Dan Hotaling are invited to attend a memorial service and celebration of his life on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2–4 p.m. in the Glen Helen Building.

Cliff Robertson, actor and Antioch College alumnus, died Saturday, Sept. 10 in Long Island. He was 88.

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the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine no longer plans to rebuild the school’s health clinic that was located in Yellow Springs; however, the Miami Township Fire-Rescue department hopes to provide a new community use for the site.

In 1886, as the area’s educational opportunities continued to attract African Americans 23 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, 13 families from Yellow Springs and Miami Township formed a local chapter of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Over the summer Home, Inc. came to the Village with a plan to develop a senior apartment building on the Barr property, with the help of development partner, Buckeye Community Hope Foundation, based in Columbus.

A memorial service for Douglas M. Abner of Yellow Springs will be held at the Lower Shelter House in John Bryan State Park on Sunday, Oct. 9, beginning at 2 p.m

In its 90th year, the Antioch School — one of the nation’s oldest — will once again craft lessons around the passions of its students, all the while continuing its longstanding traditions and tested instruction methods, teachers said last week.