After years of planning, Little Art Theatre’s marquee makeover began in earnest on Tuesday, July 15.

At high noon on July 4, a steady stream of village organizations, youngsters, golf carts, firetrucks and horses filtered through the downtown avenues for the Fourth of July parade.

At 84 years old, Yellow Springs resident Sue Parker can recall with pristine clarity who owned what home from years ago, what flowers grew around their porches and what the children playing in the backyards grew up to be.

The Yellow Springs Train Station now has life-saving medicine free for the taking. On Monday morning, July 14, representatives from Greene County Public Health installed a bright purple kiosk, packed with individual doses of naloxone, at the station.

On Thursday, June 19, the YS Juneteenth Committee collaborated with Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center for an event that honored the Juneteenth holiday.

Windsor Companies plans to demolish the derelict Student Union, and in its place on the 2.16-acre site, build two three-story apartment buildings, with 48 market-rate rental units in each; and in the Kettering building, install 43 rentals for persons 55 and older.

“The point is that these war-starved media outlets and pathological huckster presidents should spur us to sharpen our media literacy and heighten our skepticism.”

On Saturday, June 28, hundreds of folks lined local streets — clad in every color under the summer sun — to revel in the village’s annual Pride celebrations.

Last week, local farmland conservation nonprofit Tecumseh Land Trust announced that the group secured an easement on 36 acres of land near the intersection of state routes 343 and 370, less than two miles east of Yellow Springs limits.

The next Village Council meeting — when the group will give second readings and hold public hearings regarding Windsor’s proposed apartment plans at Antioch College’s Charles F. Kettering and former Student Union buildings — will be Monday, July 7, at 6 p.m.