Issue 3, the senior services levy on the May 6 ballot, will, if passed, provide funding to help about 30 older villagers stay in their own homes by ensuring regular meals, homemaker services and visits.

Agenda for Thursday, May 8

Council for the Village of Yellow Springs Seeks Interested Persons to Serve.

Wilberforce University will host Bishop Reginald Jackson and Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., who will speak at the 2014 commencement ceremonies Saturday.

Enrollment at Antioch University Midwest has dropped to an all-time low this spring. While many colleges and universities have shown signs of suffering from the recession, Midwest’s decline has been steeper than that of its sister institutions in the region.

The response to the downtown “fence gallery” has been so positive that organizers are trying to figure out how local artists can do a similar project every year.

In an unexpected move, Village Council members at their April 21 meeting took sourcing water from Springfield off the table, so that rehabbing the Village water plant or building a new Village plant remain Council’s only choices for how best to source local water.

It is with great sadness that the family of Drew R.E. Wallen shares the news of his passing in Davie, Fla., on April 2, after a brief illness.

Byron Keys Dann died at Hospice of Dayton on Jan. 3, 2014.

“Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”