The new part-time pharmacist at Town Drug is a familiar face -— both in the village and at the pharmacy. Emma Robinow, 28, grew up in Yellow Springs and completed her pharmaceutical residency in town under the mentorship of Tim Rogers, who died in January.

Deirdre Roche, of Bass Harbor, Maine, died on April 5, after a period of declining health.

Mills Lawn fourth-grader C.J. Cooper recently spent time in Xenia “Scouting for food,” an annual Boy Scout-led food drive.

Ohio’s newest chapter of the Future Farmers of America Organization was born at YSHS this school year.

The personnel situation at the Yellow Springs Police Department continues to be unstable as two of the newest officers on the local force resigned their positions in the last two months, and a third has been on leave since Jan. 1.

A young couple hopes to quit their day jobs, live closer to the land and raise their toddler in nature. The story is straight out of the early 1970s, and so is the passive solar house the couple plans to build out of old tires and tin cans.

Roberta Dodds Alexander, née Postle, long time Yellow Springs resident, passed away Feb. 19, at Friends Care Community Center. She was 88 years old.

Edythe Okun Powers, of Yellow Springs passed away early on the morning of March 20 at the Friends Care Community Center. She was 86

Patsy L. Amos Demmings, of Dayton, formerly of Yellow Springs, died on April 1. She was 52.

Finn Catalanotto and his twin sister Sophie were very eager to leave the playground next to the Springs Motel, where they have been staying this week away from their home in Cincinnati.