Jennifer Sharp’s film “Una Great Movie” debuted digitally this month on Amazon. The film, which the village native wrote, directed and edited, was shot primarily on an island in Mexico to which Sharp has strong personal ties.

Elves must have visited Gaunt Park this week. The T-ball infield looked professionally maintained starkly different than last week’s muddy swamp. We send our gratitude to those elves.

In a presentation made at the YS Development Corporation’s July 5 meeting, villager Dirk Lackovich-Van Gorp asked the organization, amid a months-long process to determine the organization’s future direction, to consider affordable housing as it continues its deliberations.

Public Meetings

Geoff Freeman, a former resident of Yellow Springs, died Monday, July 25.

YELLOW SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, REGULAR MEETING; TUESDAY, August 2.

Evelyn J. (Sims) Milligan, formerly of Yellow Springs, Ohio, passed away peacefully at her home in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 25, 2022.

Carolyn Treadway died Friday, July 15. She was 88.

The majority of comments from the public, including letters that had been submitted by those who could not attend, focused on the physical safety of students in consideration of the deadly May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

At its Monday, July 18 meeting, Village Council passed a resolution to allow Village Manager Josué Salmerón to negotiate a contract with Amy Blankenship of Frost Brown Todd LLC as the new village solicitor.