Pamela A. Bradds passed away peacefully at her sister’s home in Minnesota on Aug. 6 in the morning light, in her sister’s arms, surrounded by love and friends. She was 59 years old.

A week after the filing deadline for candidates, this fall’s races for Village Council and Miami Township Trustee look robust, while the school board contest is decidedly calmer, with no challengers for two incumbents. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

Here in the heart of industrial agriculture, a quiet revolution has begun. It’s small-scale, and plans to stay that way. Its dimensions are measured not in acres, but millimeters.

On Aug. 5, 2015, over 200 people gathered in the parking lot of the Beavercreek Walmart to commemorate the life and mourn the death of John Crawford III.

A nine-year effort to protect Glen Helen finally came to a successful conclusion last week, with the Glen now preserved as a wild place into perpetuity.

David Allen Boughan, of Yellow Springs, ascended peacefully to the Lord on Monday, Aug. 17, 2015, after a long illness. He was 63.

Last month, nearly a year after the Community Children’s Center lost its director, the local preschool and daycare hired Rebecca Lowry as its new executive director.

“Raising sprouts isn’t something I ever saw myself doing, but isn’t that how most people end up in life – not really doing what they thought they were going to do?”

Monday, August 31, 2015 TIME: 7:00 p.m.

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