Our immortal beloved Karen lost her year-long battle to pancreatic cancer on Jan. 2, 2015.

Thomas T. Blake passed away Sunday, Dec. 28, at 8 p.m. at his residence in Sidney, Ohio. He was 71.

Marilyn (Kelley) Dowdell, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully at Miami Valley Hospital on Dec. 31. She was 75.

The Yellow Springs Board of Education has placed village schools on a two-hour delay for Wednesday, Jan. 29 due to the continuing extreme cold.

The YS Senior Center has announced that it is now accepting submissions for the second issue of Ripples, an elder literary journal.

Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, 7 p.m.

Yellow Springs Village schools are closed Tuesday, Jan. 6 due to snow and cold.

Agenda for Thursday, Jan. 8

Mildred Priser, of Yellow Springs, passed away Dec. 12 at Greene Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. She was 65.

Ronald “The Kid” White, a longtime resident of Yellow Springs, died on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2014 at Grandview Hospital. He was 77.