In this second entry of News columnist Iden Crockett’s “Ask a Transperson” blog, Crockett answers several questions on her experience with the physical and emotional adjustments related to gender transition, including surgery, hormone replacement therapy, sex and physical intimacy and effects on family members.

Over 100 properties throughout the village have been certified with the National Wildlife Federation, or NWF, as official native wildlife habitats. Each of these properties — 108, to be exact — have met the NWF’s criteria of providing local fauna with sources of food, water and shelter, while abiding by stringent sustainable practices.

Last month, about a dozen Yellow Springs bartenders and servers gathered to learn how to recognize and curtail sexual harassment and assault in their establishments.

The Antioch School will hold its Scholarship Gala fundraising event at the Foundry Theater on Friday, April 21. Headlining this year’s gala event is Grammy-nominated blues musician Guy Davis.

Rachel Eve Moulton will read from “The Insatiable Volt Sisters” Sunday, April 16, 3–5 p.m., at Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe, with an introduction by author Katrina Kittle.

A recital featuring scholarship students and performers affiliated with the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association, or YSYOA, will be presented Sunday, April 16, 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church.

A memorial service for award-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert, who died Dec. 1, will take place Saturday, May 6, at 4 p.m., under a large tent to be erected in the “horseshoe” in front of Antioch’s Main building.

A graveside service for Jackie Davenport, who died March 11 at age 77, will be 2 p.m. Saturday, April 15, at Glen Forest Cemetery.

A memorial service for Donald Deardorff, who died March 29, at age 91, will be Saturday, April 15, at 11 a.m., at Yellow Springs United Methodist Church.

Daniel L. Pelzl died April 6, 2023, at Hospice of Dayton. A full obituary will appear in an upcoming edition of the News.