Over the last few months, Tim Sontag has been doing his best to settle into a well-earned retirement. After 38 years of running Xenia Shoe & Leather Repair — a shop he founded — the longtime village resident has officially called it a career.

Juana Maria McKenna Gomez passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in her home, surrounded by family.

Charles E. “Eddie” Furay, 81, of Yellow Springs, died Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at Soin Medical Center.

On Saturday, March 13, around 12:30 p.m., a dead body was reportedly found at John Bryan State Park. The skeletal remains were found just north of the Orton picnic area.

Last weekend, local artist Pierre Nagley pasted a drawing of Emmitt Till on top of a Kieth’s Alley mural he painted last year of George Floyd that had been vandalized with white paint earlier in the week.

The Yellow Springs News has once again been recognized by its peers for excellence in journalism, advertising and design. The News was awarded the top prize — Newspaper of the Year — in the 2021 Ohio News Media Association weekly newspaper contest.

Seymour Charles Wexler died at Friends Care assisted living on Jan. 25, 2021, two weeks after his 96th birthday.

On Feb. 25, 2021, Christina “Tuffy” Ferguson returned to her heavenly home due to COVID-19.

Drewry Estes Logan, of Hanover, N.H., died on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at Kendal at Hanover, following a short illness. She was 94.

R. Michael Triplett died suddenly at home March 1, 2021.