James Franklin “Jeff” Inslee passed away peacefully on Jan. 21, 2022, at Soin Medical Center.

Bernd Dehne passed away on Jan. 19, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio. He was 59.

Brian Carlos Robles passed away on Jan. 21, 22. He was born in New York City on July 15, 1978, to his mother, Carol Robles, and his father, Carlos Robles.

Anthony Henry was born June 7, 1958, in Springfield, Ohio, and transitioned home Jan. 18, 2022, at the University of Cincinnati Hospital. He is at peace and at rest, at home with the Lord.

Doris E. Rowland, 89, of Peoria, Ill., passed peacefully on Jan. 9, 2022, after a remarkable life.

Over a blanket of snow, more than 100 villagers marched through downtown Yellow Springs in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march on Monday, Jan. 17.

Sarah Sinclair-Amend, who served as a voting member, resigned Jan. 13; and Matthew Kirk, who served as an alternate, resigned Jan. 6.

After more than a decade, when changes in school board makeup occurred mostly one new member at a time, amid the constancy of veteran office holders serving multiple terms and carrying over familiar approaches, newcomers are in the super-majority as 2022 begins.

“Who am I, where am I, and where do I want to be?” These questions, along with detailed storytelling and self-discovery, are expressed like a thread through each drawing, collage and poem of local artist Iden Crockett.

The Yellow Springs school board’s annual organizational meeting, conducted in the Mills Lawn gym on Thursday, Jan. 13, began with the swearing in of its three newest members: Dorothée Bouquet, Judith Hempfling and Amy Magnus.