Maria Donat, 89, passed away peacefully at the Friends Care Community on April 26, 2023. Maria was born in Valparaiso, Chile, on July 10, 1933, to Carlos and Rosa Cárdenas.

USAF Col. (Ret.) Behrle W. Hubbuch Jr., age 85, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully, Saturday, April 22, 2023, at Hospice of Dayton. 

Karen Sue Ward, age 64, of Xenia, passed away Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

On Monday, April 24, the Board of Trustees of the Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice released a media statement updating the public on the status of the nonprofit’s temporary closure.

On Tuesday, April 18, around 8:23 p.m., longtime village resident Marco Solomon Comegys, 56, was critically injured in a motorcycle accident, leading to his death three days later on Friday, April 21.

Eloise Agnes (Weddle) Pitstick was a beloved grandmother, mother and wife during her 83 years of life.

Chamber Music in Yellow Springs will welcome the Canone Quartet and Trio Ondata as this year’s finalists in its 38th Annual Competition for Emerging Ensembles, 4 p.m. April 30, at First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs.

At the Greene County Invitational, senior Malcolm Blunt ran to a first-place finish in the 200 meters with a personal- and season-best time of 22.71. He complemented this effort with a runner-up finish in the long jump, leaping 19´10˝.

A memorial celebration for Martin Borchers, who died May 27, 2020, will take place Saturday, May 27, 3–5 p.m., at the Borchers family home, 441 E. Yellow Springs-Fairfield Road.

Jon Howard Saari, longtime Yellow Springs resident and Antioch University professor emeritus, passed away on April 12, 2023, at Hospice of Southwest Ohio, after complications to a decades-long illness. He was 76.