Metacognitive thinking, according to one definition, is an awareness of one’s own thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them.

Local resident Caroline Mullin recently was named the executive director of the Yellow Springs Senior Center, or YSSC, and she brings with her a vision for the center as a place for resources and meaningful engagement for people of all ages.

Tie-dyed T-shirts and joyfully shrieking kids can only mean one thing: Perry League T-ball, with Coach Jimmy, is back again after a year’s absence.

Joy Schweizer (Merry Joyce Baldwin) was born in 1934 in Springfield, Ohio, the daughter of Frances Knox Baldwin and Robert Francis Baldwin, of Yellow Springs.

Kumasi Hampton passed away on May 29, 2021, at his home in Springfield, Ohio.

Village Council Regular Meeting • Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 7 p.m.

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Ray was born on June 2, 1930, in Pittsfield, Mass., the sixth and youngest child.

Francis “Fritz” Xavier Leighty passed away peacefully at home on June 20, 2021.

“And so I offer you — graduates of Antioch — advice grounded in my Anishinaabe teachings of a way forward in all four directions. East is the direction of beginnings, and the teachings from the east remind us that all life is spirit — the wind, earth, fire, and water, all those things that are alive with energy and movement.”