How are our small-town shops, stores and services weathering this economic moment? To what extent have rising costs fallen on the consumer — villager and visitor alike? And what, ultimately, can be done to mitigate the worst effects?

Woda Cooper Companies aims to develop a three-story, low-income housing complex in Yellow Springs comprised of 71 one-, two- and three-bedroom units. Monthly rents, excluding utilities, would range from $345 to $1,150.

Most grants will be up to $16,500 for projects starting in February, including accessibility upgrades, health and safety repairs and weatherization.

Set in a rural midwestern community in the aftermath of the vandalism of a public mural, “Loving is the Key” reenacts excerpts from the speech that Bayard Rustin delivered at Antioch College on April 6, 1965, and Coretta Scott King’s 1982 Antioch College commencement speech.

An upcoming four-day summit hosted by Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center  for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom aims to inspire students, artists, researchers, activists, organizers, educators and scholars not only to envision, but also to help create — as author Toni Morrison once told a group of collegiate graduates — “the world as it ought to be.”

The News spoke this week with Antioch College President Jane Fernandes, who said of the designation: “It’s information that we have some financial work to do — that our financials are not just flowing, and now we have to make them work.”