Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, 7 p.m.

A free film and panel discussion at the Little Art Theatre will discuss the impact of various birth practices on the newborn’s bacterial microbiome.

Yellow Springs Village schools are closed Tuesday, Jan. 6 due to snow and cold.

The New Year’s celebration this year was rowdy and joyful, with many friends from afar reuniting to share laughter, songs, and drinks for the night.

On Boxing Day, the Friday following Christmas, my daughter and I sat in a hallway like a pair of chastised students awaiting an uncertain fate. Fate in this instance was a force both kind and generous.

Villagers filled the downtown with music, dancing and kissing on New Year’s Eve 2014.

A memorial service for John Eastman will take place Saturday, Jan. 3, at 10:30 a.m. at the Glen Helen building.

Agenda for Thursday, Jan. 8

Mildred Priser, of Yellow Springs, passed away Dec. 12 at Greene Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. She was 65.

Ronald “The Kid” White, a longtime resident of Yellow Springs, died on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2014 at Grandview Hospital. He was 77.