The YS Chamber Orchestra and Community Chorus will present the final concert in this spring’s Langston Hughes retrospective. “Harlem Renaissance Revisited,” a program of music and poetry, will be performed Sunday, May 7, 7:30 p.m., at the Foundry Theater.

Local policing was in the spotlight at Village Council’s April 17 meeting. Council members discussed proposed new guidelines for Village policing, as well as next steps in the Village’s search for a permanent police chief. In addition, a new full-time police officer, Mariah England, was sworn into the local department.

Next Monday, April 24, needlework artists from across Ohio and states such as California, New York and Rhode Island will take up residence in the Mills Park Hotel for four days, and they’ll stitch, and stitch some more.

Colleges have them. Private secondary schools have them. But until recently most public schools didn’t have them — alumni associations, that is.

27-year-old Kamar Thomas is currently a visiting assistant professor of visual arts at Antioch College. His Herndon Gallery show, titled “Schizomaica”, which features 19 works in oil and charcoal, combines elements of performance, photography and painting.

A recent proposal by Enon Sand & Gravel to significantly expand mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs, has many area residents deeply concerned.

With 75 years of continuous publication and a knack for picking and publishing a host of vital American voices, the The Antioch Review is a “little magazine” with an undeniably “big” impact and influence.

April 13, 2016 Bulldog sports round-up

We took the long way around Ellis Pond, stopping to observe a kingfisher pair. Big dark heads, a call like a rattle and wings that opened smartly as scissors. We looked for the Great Blue Heron, but didn’t see him — or her — solitary dweller in the stream and weeds.

Citizens Against Mining is holding an ice cream social and sign-making party at Young’s Dairy this Sunday, April 9, from 1 to 3 p.m. The group opposes the expansion of mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs.