Augusta “Gussie” Nosker, age 86, a resident of Yellow Springs for 65 years, passed away Tuesday, March 4, at Trinity Retirement Community of Beavercreek. Gussie was raised in Birch River, West Virginia, then moved to Parkersburg to attend business college.

Yellow Springs High School and McKinney School celebrated the success and hard work of their athletes at the winter sports awards ceremony last week on Thursday, Feb. 28. Members from the girls and boys basketball and swimming teams and the cheerleading squads were honored.

Martha J. “Marty” Derrick of Xenia died Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the Greenewood Manor. She was 84. She was born March 31, 1923, in Yellow Springs, the daughter of Elias and Katie (Stull) Harness.

The Yellow Springs High School boys basketball team played with heart but lost to Tri-Village 50–48 in the Division IV sectional championship game on Friday, Feb. 22.

An open house to celebrate the life of Ken Tregillus will be held at 110 Kurt Street, Friday, Feb. 29, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Janet B. Goode died Feb. 17 at Kettering Medical Center. She was 82. Jan was born in Steubenville, the eldest child of Dorothy and Joe Ventolo, although in recent years she claimed to be the youngest, an assertion her brother Joe (Herky) Ventolo of Enon cheerfully backed up.

Among the lead stories locally in 2007: Antioch University announced that Antioch College would close in 2008. Villagers debated annexation and buying into a coal-burning electric power plant for 50 years. A proposal for a Yellow Springs arts center became a vision of Yellow Springs as an arts center.