Features

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  The Patterdale Hall Diaries | A recipe for de-stressing

  
  
  

  “I’ve been writing this diary for two years now. Putting my thoughts down has been enjoyable, and documenting this time of my life is kind of fun. I’m slowing down.”

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  Local chess club makes moves

  
  
  

  Over the last few years, the Fairborn Scholastic Chess Club’s founder, Tony Mumford, has expanded its reach to village youth, and he now operates the Yellow Springs Chess Club, introducing a whole new generation to the love of the game.

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  Annual Yellow Springs Kwanzaa celebration set

  
  
  

  The annual community Kwanzaa celebration will be Saturday, Dec. 28, beginning at 6 p.m., in the John Bryan Community Center gymnasium.

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  Story Chain makes connections through voice

  
  
  

  For a decade, local nonprofit Story Chain has worked to connect loved ones who can’t physically be together through the power of the voice. Since its founding, the Yellow Springs-based nonprofit has run successful programs at Dayton Correctional Institution, and in Greene, Montgomery and Clark County jails.

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  Village Planning Commission recommends repealing Gateway Overlay District

  
  
  

  At the most recent Planning Commission meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 10, the group revisited — and ultimately recommended to repeal — an anomalous and oft-under-referenced section of the Yellow Springs zoning code: the Gateway Overlay District.

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  H.U.M.A.N. to host community coffeehouse

  
  
  

  Local human rights organization H.U.M.A.N., or Help Us Make a Nation, aims to give folks a way to meditate on post-election questions, and others, at a coffeehouse event slated for Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater. The event is sponsored by Mad River Theater Works.

Obituaries

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  Patricia McAllister
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  Gordon Cowperthwaite