“Peace Corner” — which follows Chiddister’s debut novel, “One More Day,” published in 2021 — explores the lives of four central characters who move through Yellow Springs carrying different ideas about what it means to be useful, be active and belong.

At its regular meeting Monday, Aug. 17, the Miami Township Board of Trustees moved through a relatively light agenda, approving a new part-time EMT and the sale of two aging Miami Township Fire-Rescue vehicles.

Yellow Springs Schools expects to lose about $2.4 million in local revenue over the next five years due to several recently enacted property tax laws, according to an updated five-year financial forecast presented to the school board Wednesday, Aug. 12.

The Foundry Theater at Antioch College is preparing to kick off its fourth season of programming next month, with a lineup that — as has been the theater’s bread and butter the last three years — spans a range of cultural traditions and artistic forms.

The free gathering asks participants to bring food — “something for themselves and something to share,” organizers told the News last week — along with their own plates and utensils, and sit down to eat with neighbors.

Amy Wamsley will hit the open water again this month for a two-mile swim in the Chicago River to benefit A Long Swim, a nonprofit that raises funds for ALS research. In sharing the news of her upcoming swim with the News, Wamsley also reflected on the year since her monumental swim across the English Channel, and the unexpected challenges that came after.

Villager Chris Westhoff is running in the New York Marathon for Team Komera, raising money for a nonprofit enriching the lives of girls and young women in Rwanda, whose managing director, Ashley Lackovich, also lives in the village.

The Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival returns Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28–29, bringing more than 50 artisan vendors, about a dozen food vendors and a full slate of live music and dance demonstrations to the village.

Friends of local resident and artist Bill Mischler are rallying around him after a diagnosis of West Nile virus has kept him hospitalized for the last two weeks.

YS Schools students are still expected to return to classes Monday, Aug. 31, but many will begin the year in temporary locations as construction continues at the middle and high school campus on East Enon Road.