Yellow Springs residents and family members Mike Fleishman, Joanne Caputo and Max Fleishman recently released “My Little AlphaButts,” an app for iPod that aims to teach children the alphabet … in an untraditional way. The app’s interactive alphabet features illustrated letter shapes and sounds that are positively flatulent.

In observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday today, Monday, Jan. 20, village offices, schools and the News will be closed.

The Yellow Springs Schools Board of Education announced at 2 p.m. today that all evening activities are canceled due to snow. Sports games may be rescheduled; please check notifications and calendars for updates.

Those of us who were fortunate enough to have known ‘Bud’ Marsh will miss his friendship, his humanity, his love of the land, and his gentle spirit.

In lieu of a traditional obituary, Tim wrote this letter to be shared after his death:

Patricia “Pat” White of Yellow Springs passed on Jan. 9 at Friends Care Community, where she had been a resident for several months. She was 63.

Monna L. Phillips died Monday, Jan. 6. She was 63.

Dr. James Ritter Werner, of Dayton’s Five Oaks neighborhood and Yellow Springs, died on Sunday, Jan. 5, from complications due to chronic leukemia.

Yellow Springs native Ronald Charles Harris died unexpectedly on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Local business EnviroFlight was recently featured on the website of Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted.