YS Porchfest will return this fall, with organizers announcing that applications are now open for musicians, porch hosts and sponsors as planning begins for the villagewide music event.

The annual festival is set for Saturday, Sept. 19, once again transforming porches, patios, backyards and other neighborhood spaces into stages for a day of free, live performances across the village. Applications are available online at http://www.ysporchfest.com for those interested in participating.

Now entering its second year back after a one-year hiatus, Porchfest organizers told the News last week that the focus for 2026 is on refining the elements of the beloved event that already work as it continues to take shape.

“We’re still establishing this program,” Porchfest coordinator David Seitz said. “But there is a sense that people like it the way it is — the formula is right.”

Porchfest, a national movement whose local arm was co-founded by Brittany Baum and Rachel Price in 2018, was previously run entirely by a small group of volunteers. The local Porchfest went on hiatus in 2024 after that group could no longer sustain the event, and went looking for a nonprofit agency to shepherd it into the future. Porchfest returned last year under the umbrella of the YS Arts Council.

Via email this week, YSAC President Valerie Blackwell-Truitt said the organization viewed taking on the festival as an extension of its broader work supporting the arts in the village, incorporating Porchfest into its ongoing community arts programming.

“We were honored to be asked to consider being the new home of YS PorchFest,” she said. “Given the success of YSAC’s YS Porchfest 2025, we are happy to continue this meaningful, joyous event.”

Though Porchfest remains largely powered by volunteers, a grant from the YS Community Foundation enabled the YS Arts Council to hire Seitz as coordinator, which YSAC Treasurer Sean Devine said helped clinch the event’s revival.

“The paid position is essential,” he said. “We wouldn’t have had Porchfest last year without all the work David did.”

Devine added that the organization viewed last year’s Porchfest as a success and made a deliberate decision to keep it running.

“Part of the motivation is [the YSAC wants] to stay relevant in the community, and one way to do that is by having a present, recurring event that recenters the community,” he said. “Porchfest is still a community-based event — it’s not a commercial endeavor — and the town can use more of those.”

Those sentiments were echoed by Seitz and the volunteer crew, almost all of whom are returning from last year’s event to work this year; they said last year’s event reaffirmed Porchfest’s place in the community.

“Anytime I bring up Porchfest anywhere, people will say it’s their favorite day of the year in Yellow Springs,” Seitz said.

“It was one of my favorite days last year, too,” added returning volunteer Margi Gay, who also served as a porch host for multiple bands. “I had so much fun.”

Attendance across the village varied by location last year, but Seitz said some venues drew more than 100 attendees, and post-event surveys reported that no host porch had crowds smaller than 10. The event’s format encourages attendees to move from porch to porch, which Seitz said can muddle the numbers a bit, but overall creates a fluid sense of participation.

“People come and then they go,” he said. “They come in and out; everywhere I went, people were smiling.”

YS Chamber of Commerce Director Phillip O’Rourke called Porchfest “one of the most connective events” in the village, and said that while downtown businesses saw increased foot traffic, Porchfest’s come-and-go nature means those visiting from out-of-town often get the chance to see more of Yellow Springs than Xenia Avenue and Dayton Street.

“You get a sense of our love for music, the culture, and you get a tour of all of the community,” he said. “It really shows the value of what our community has to offer when it comes to us just being a destination in and of itself.”

Though Porchfest draws some visitors from outside Yellow Springs, Gay emphasized that the event’s focus remains on fostering local participation and connection.

“We don’t really promote it heavily outside of town,” she said.

Looking ahead to this year’s event, Seitz said the Porchfest crew is aiming for a more diverse group of musicians — “We want more performers of color on the map,” he said — along with a wider range of performance spaces. Organizers are encouraging hosts to accommodate multiple acts where possible, giving more musicians a chance to play and helping spread performances more evenly across the village.

Seitz said those without traditional porches are still encouraged to participate; last year, performances took place on front steps, in yards and in garages.

“If you’re thinking about hosting, but you’re not sure, you can email us,” he said.

For more information on the upcoming Porchfest, or to apply to participate as a musician, host or sponsor, go to ysporchfest.com. For more information on the YS Arts Council, go to http://www.ysartscouncil.org

 

Eleven Bulldogs were inducted into the Yellow Springs Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, April 4.

The new hall-of-famers include Kenneth “Buster” Hamilton, Carl Cordell Jr., Ron Benton, Steven L. Harshaw, Sandra Lang, Lynn Hardman, Tracy Hoagland-Clark, Larry Peterson, Dustin Rudegeair, Raphael Allen and Jared Scarfpin.

These Bulldogs join the ranks of the 44 other athletes who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame since its creation in 2018 through a combined effort by the YSHS Athletic Department and YSHS Athletic Boosters.

• Kenneth “Buster” Hamilton, class of 1945, was a star basketball player at John Bryan High School. During the 1945 season, he led Bryan High School to its first-ever district championship, along with winning the county championship.

• Carl Cordell Jr., class of 1960, excelled as an athlete in basketball and baseball at Bryan High School in Yellow Springs. As a 10th and 11th grader, Carl was First Team All-Conference and District in both sports. As a senior, he was selected All-Ohio in basketball and led the Bulldogs to the regionals. As a baseball standout at Bryan High School, Carl was scouted by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds.

• Ron Benton, class of 1966, was a star basketball player for the Bulldogs from 1964 to 1966. He was an instrumental and outstanding part of the team that beat Anna HS for the Class A District title in 1966 — at that time, there were only two divisions for basketball. This was only the second district basketball title in school history and the first crown since 1945.

• Steven L. Harshaw, class of 1971, was a multisport athlete at Yellow Springs High School, playing basketball and baseball for four years and lettering in both sports. Most importantly, he was a trailblazer; during freshman year, he was the first Black athlete in YSHS history to play on the golf team. In his senior year on the basketball court, he was in the Elite 300 Point Club with 306 points in 15 games, averaging 20.4 points a game; and 407 points in 21 games, averaging 19.4 points a game. He shot 68% from the field and 91.7% from the free throw line while averaging 8.4 assists, 3.9 steals and 4.3 rebounds per game.

• Sandra Lang, class of 1977, played high school softball for four years, playing first base and outfield. She also played college softball and in various adult leagues after college. During the 1976–1977 basketball season, she averaged 8 points, 3 assists, and 13 rebounds per game. In March of 1977, she signed a national letter of intent for a full basketball scholarship to Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. She became the first out-of-state player and first black player for the women’s program.

• Lynn Hardman, class of 1979, graduated from Yellow Springs High School a four-year athlete in soccer, basketball and softball, class officer, Honor Society member and class salutatorian. In her senior year, under the loving and lengthy leadership of coach Duke Conrad, Lynn earned two notable honors. YSHS girls soccer team won the the-day invitational Worthington Soccer Invitational, arguably the equivalent of a state tournament, and made third team All-State in basketball, averaging “double-doubles” in rebounding and scoring.

• Tracy Hoagland-Clark, class of 1987, was a multisport athlete in high school, excelling most notably in basketball. During her senior year, Tracy helped lead her team to a district runner-up finish and earned numerous honors, including: Kenton Trace Conference (KTC) First Team (two years), KTC Runner-Up Player of the Year (1987), Southwest District 9 All-Star (Senior Year), Dayton Area All-Star Selection Class A, All-Ohio Honorable Mention Greene County, First Team Greene County leading scorer (17 points per game) and leading rebounder.

• As a football player, Larry Peterson, class of 1993, played a variety of positions because of his size, speed and strength, and he was named All District and All State. In basketball, he was a two-year starter and played on the Bulldog squad that reached the Regional Championship in 1992, where he was also selected to the All-Ohio team. In track, he was a key figure in leading the Bulldogs to state championships in 1992 and 1993. As a trackster, he won four first-place gold medals and one runner-up medal, highlighted by a state championship his senior year in the long jump, along with setting the still-standing school record in the long jump.

• Dustin Rudegeair, class of 2004, starred in basketball and baseball during his time at Yellow Springs. A four-year letter winner in baseball and a three-year letter winner in basketball, he would letter twice in football and once in golf as well. Rudegeair also excelled in the classroom, being named a Scholar-Athlete in every season of competition throughout his career. On the court, Rudegeair was a three-year starter, helping the basketball team win Metro Buckeye Conference championships in 2003 and 2004. He would once again be named as MBC Player of the Year (the first in conference history to receive the award twice) and second team All-Ohio, amongst other individual accolades. Statistically, he averaged 19.7 points and 11.4 rebounds per basketball game and became the seventh in Yellow Springs history to reach the 1,000 point milestone.

• Raphael Allen, class of 2009. Among the many sports he competed in, track and field and football became the arenas where his athleticism and determination stood out most. His accomplishments at Yellow Springs opened the door to compete at the collegiate level, where he attended Wittenberg University and continued his success in both sports. During his high school football career, he won four championships and lost a total of six games.

• Jared Scarfpin, class of 2015, played varsity soccer all four years, varsity basketball for three years, and varsity baseball for two years. A captain of the soccer team for three years, he earned multiple conference, district, state and regional awards throughout his career. While representing YSHS in soccer, he earned first team all-Metro Buckeye Conference honors all four years, and Metro Buckeye Conference Player of the Year as a junior and a senior.

In the upcoming feature film “Mad River,” reality doesn’t hold steady for long.

The film, written and directed by area artist Jarrod Robbins, was shot in part in Yellow Springs and will make its debut in several Miami Valley theaters this month.

“Mad River” follows Benjamin Elder, a quiet, solitary man who pursues a romantic connection as his inner life begins to splinter. At its core, Robbins said, the film is an attempt to humanize that unraveling by placing the audience inside it.

“It’s the story of a very lonely man’s descent into insanity,” said Robbins, who plays the main character. “It’s told from the inside out. So it’s not about an insane man — the audience experiences Ben’s fracturing mind along with him.”

Robbins said the film’s structure mirrors its subject, fracturing its narrative by moving between what Ben believes is happening, what he tells others and what may be unfolding just outside his perception. In one sequence, those threads unspool at the same time, forcing the audience to reconcile conflicting versions of the same moment.

“I got to show multiple perspectives simultaneously,” Robbins said. “What’s onscreen is what actually happened, and Ben’s voiceover is him writing about how he perceived what happened.”

That layered approach carried over from the novel of the same name, also written by Robbins. Having written two novels and written and directed several independent films over the last several years, Robbins said he was interested in exploring the possibilities inherent in translating the written narrative to the screen.

“I can show something with a single image that might take me three pages to describe,” he said.

Robbins grew up in Enon, and after attending Wittenberg University to study English, spent years working in Los Angeles and Nashville as an actor. Having returned to the Miami Valley, Robbins said shooting “Mad River” entirely in Ohio communities — Enon, Fairborn, New Carlisle, Urbana, Cedarville and Yellow Springs, including a pivotal scene at the Corner Cone —  was due to a desire for the film to feel rooted in the place where he grew up, even if that place was never explicitly named in the film or its source material.

“I never say where it takes place, but it takes place here,” he said.

Robbins said the story was inspired in part by his interactions with a man he came to know while working overnight shifts at a Los Angeles hotel — an experience he said reshaped how he views people living with mental illness.

Robbins said the man, who frequented the hotel where he worked, could be unpredictable — at times “cordial and funny and witty,” and at others “violent and a menace,” throwing objects at guests and lashing out at staff. Rather than avoid him, Robbins said he made a point to listen. Over time, the man shared that he had once been a mechanical engineer with a master’s degree before losing his job, his family and, eventually, his stability. The distance between how the man was perceived and who he was  stuck with Robbins.

“We label people as ‘crazy’ or ‘evil’ to keep them at arm’s length,” he said. “It changed my paradigm entirely; I started seeing people differently.”

That shift became the emotional core of “Mad River,” which aims to invite audiences to experience a facet of the complexities of mental illness and, hopefully, empathize with that facet.

“If my little film has even a fraction of that impact on anyone, then it was worth it,” Robbins said.

Local resident and actor Mike Taint, who plays the role of Ben’s father in the film, said working on “Mad River” offered a rare opportunity — both in its subject matter and its process. With a background primarily in stage performance, Taint said the shift to film required a different kind of discipline, with scenes shot out of order and emotional beats needing to be reached quickly.

“You have to turn it on immediately,” he said, noting that unlike stage work, film requires actors to jump between emotional moments out of sequence. “You’re here now, and then, boom — now you’re here three weeks before.”

At the same time, he said working directly with Robbins, who has lived and breathed the world and characters in “Mad River” through multiple iterations, provided unusual clarity.

“This is the god of the ‘Mad River’ universe,” Taint said. “When he gives direction, you don’t have to second-guess that direction.”

Having produced multiple independent films, Robbins said he encountered the expected challenges in working with a limited budget — “We didn’t have unlimited resources,” he said. But having worked for years in logistics, Robbins said he’s good at streamlining processes — and in finding ways around roadblocks when they occur.

“Filmmaking is logistics, if nothing else,” he said.

Robbins stepped in to compose part of the film’s score after a collaborator left the project, and built a full-scale replica of a mobile home interior in a barn outside New Carlisle, where several of the film’s central scenes were shot.

“It takes place in summertime, but we filmed in November — and it was unheated,” Taint said with a laugh. “I had the thickest long underwear on underneath my costume.”

Robbins, on the other hand, was often dressed for summer scenes in shorts and a tank top, despite the cold.

“We ran a blast heater between takes,” Robbins said. “But it was so loud we had to turn it off when the camera was running. We also had a kerosene heater, but it was only good for about three feet.”

“Mad River” will begin its area theatrical run with a private premiere for cast and crew at Little Art Theatre this weekend, followed by public screenings at the Fairborn Phoenix on Friday, April 10, and the State Theatre in Springfield on Friday, April 17. Screenings in Cincinnati are slated for later in the month.

Robbins said he chose the Little Art to debut the film for the more than two dozen area folks who worked on it because he’s always had a soft spot for the village, and hopes to honor the small town that helped him create the visual and thematic world of “Mad River.”

“I want the people of Yellow Springs to know that I care about it,” he said. “I love this town, and I love this theater.”

Springtime is waxing in Yellow Springs. Treebuds are proudly poking up and ephemerals checker the thawing earth. The days begin to grow long as coats are cast away for the few months ahead.

Energy abounds this time of year, but for some organisms, growth takes time and blooms must be carefully planned.

Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice, a local 128-acre educational farm about a mile west of Yellow Springs, is among those circumspecting organisms — and for good reason.

It’s been three years since the farm’s operations were suspended due to financial and legal precarity from insurmountable payroll and payroll taxes that the farm couldn’t afford. Thirty employees were abruptly furloughed in February 2023, and most agricultural and educational programs ceased altogether.

Since then, growth at Agraria has been slow, steady and measured. This spring is no different, staffers told the News last month.

“We’re still building our capacity,” Eric Bee, operations manager, said. “We’re being careful and intentional with how we use grants, and especially with how we manage our bandwidth — seeing what projects we can and can’t take on.”

“Exactly,” Programs Director Florentina Rodriguez agreed. “We’re trying to regain the trust of the community, of our donors, and prove that we’re not going to stretch ourselves too thin. We’re still doing important work, and the community is invited to help out.”

Bee and Rodriguez — the only two paid staffers at Agraria — said they’re reliant on the goodwill of volunteers and the curious, those who hope to learn new skills and those who want to help feed their neighbors.

To that end, Agraria has narrowed its operational focus to four areas: enacting farm-scale permaculture practices, building local ecological knowledge, fostering citizen science and reskilling to preserve traditional practices.

The next reskilling program will take  place Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26, when Agraria will host “Making A Home Apothecary: Herbalism as a Community Skill,” wherein workshop organizers will teach pro-health approaches to plant foraging and making herbal remedies. Information and registration on the workshop can be found at agrariacenter.org.

All the while, Agraria is hosting “Seed Saturdays” at the farm every Saturday through the end of May. It’s a recurring event, Bee and Rodriguez said, that touches on all four of the farm’s operational pillars. The educational component, though, is paramount.

“We’ve been growing and breeding plants to do what we want for more than 10,000 years,” Bee said. “But lately, what we want isn’t necessarily good for us. Plants are being bred to be productive and easily shipped, not necessarily healthy and flavorful. So the concept of saving and carefully selecting seeds means we can grow better food for ourselves and the land.”

Seed Saturdays are just that — a casual exchange of produce and flower seeds that are well-tuned to grow and flourish in Yellow Springs’ particular biome. They’re open to the public 10 a.m.–noon, and no one is required to bring their own seeds for exchange — there’s plenty for the taking Rodriguez said.

“So many big seed contract growers and companies — mostly in the Pacific Northwest — tout things like frost resistance, but they don’t necessarily have drought resistance, heat tolerance, humidity tolerance — the kinds of climate struggles we have to deal with out here,” Rodriguez said. “Seed exchanges and swaps can really be a way to gain knowledge about your local ecology — they can be a way to reconnect with your land, your own personal stories.”

Faith Morgan gave a prime example and held aloft a particularly rotund butternut squash. 

Morgan is a longtime Agraria volunteer, advisory board member and granddaughter of the late Arthur Morgan, who founded Agraria’s earliest iteration, the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, in 1940. She was also director of Community Solutions for four years.

“This is Peggy’s butternut,” Morgan said of the squash she cradled.

She referred to Peg Champney, a beloved local resident  who died in 2019. Champney was a lifelong gardener who, over the course of several decades, bred a squash to her liking — one that, after so many years of guided selection, would grow well in Yellow Springs (particularly The Vale, where she lived), be the right kind of sweetness she and her husband, Ken, preferred, and have the right structure to prevent early rotting.

Peggy’s butternut seeds are among the many dozens available for exchange or taking at Seed Saturdays.

“So, this is all about taking seeds, trying them and experimenting — citizen science,” Morgan said. “And we’re not just passing seeds out, but we’re teaching people how to grow them, too.”

For now, that’s the prerogative of Agraria — seed saving and proliferation.

According to Bee, Rodriguez and Morgan — Agraria’s present intellectual “triumvirate,” as Bee refers to them — turning Agraria into the local repository for seeds is a  sustainable approach to meeting current and future local agricultural needs. It’s a way to bring people to the farm, think about the locale and its attendant ecology more critically and, ultimately, commune with one another in an increasingly disjointed food system.

But Agraria’s not only growing crops for seed preservation — a more immediate need is being met, largely thanks to volunteer and villager Al Schlueter’s green thumbs. Last year, he grew 10,000 pounds worth of produce on Agraria property, the vast majority of which he donated to the Yellow Springs Food Pantry.

Schlueter said he has similar plans for this year. As of press time, he had long and impressive rows of garlic, potatoes and leafy greens in the ground — likely all going to a local hungry belly in the near future, he said.   

“This kind of giving and sharing is in the spirit of Yellow Springs, I think,” Schlueter told the News. “People who go to the pantry deserve more than just boxed and canned food. People really like what I drop off. They come and give me a big hug sometimes.”

Though Agraria has only 12 tillable acres on its 128-acre property, according to the triumvirate, they’re keeping true to the longtime mission of Agraria to regenerate the farm’s soil —  perhaps in the interest of future growth.

Recently, Agraria has partnered with the new farming enterprise across the road. On the north side of Dayton-Yellow Springs Road is Yellow Springs Provisions, a burgeoning farm that recently took charge of a 185-acre property and, on it, placed a conservation easement, rendering it agricultural in perpetuity.

As the News previously reported, the DeLacey and Coppock families bought the land at the end of 2025 with the intention of raising grass-fed, grass-finished cattle and other livestock and crops on the land.

“And we’re letting them rotationally graze on our land,” Rodriguez said. “By moving these cows around, having pasture-based ruminants on the land helps the soil in a lot of different ways, sequestering carbon and mimicking the natural soil that had been built here in the first place.”

“This is called flash grazing,” Bee said of the neighboring cows’ occasional presence on Agraria land. “It’s an important regenerative practice that harkens back to when bison and other animals roamed around in giant herds, eating, grazing, pooping, stamping on the poop and moving along.”

Presently, the rotational herd is up to 24, but that number is poised to go up: calving season is here. One was already born March 17.

“What a great partnership this is,” Bee said.

“Doing anything alone by ourselves is not the way to go,” Rodriguez said. “We just don’t have the bandwidth. But we’d love to do more in partnership with others. Maybe someone wants to grow something they hadn’t before. Maybe someone wants to start a seed collective.  We have the space and, in some cases, the resources.”

She continued: “Local partnerships spread out the risk and multiply the rewards. Stop by some day and see what we’re doing.”

To learn more about Agraria’s upcoming programs and volunteer opportunities, see the News’ “At Agraria” column or visit the nonprofit’s website at http://www.agrariacenter.org

The Yellow Springs Senior Center announced this week that it has signed a contract to purchase the former lumberyard property at 108 Cliff St. The Senior Center had previously announced in January that it was considering the Cliff Street site as a location for its future new facility.

As outlined in a March 28 press release, the contract represents what the Senior Center describes as a “strategic shift — not a restart,” following months of analysis, community input and negotiations with the property’s current owners.

The move is a change in direction from a previously planned new build on a Livermore Street parcel the nonprofit purchased from Antioch College in December 2023. Rather than build its new facility from the ground up, the Senior Center now plans to rehabilitate the Cliff Street site’s existing post-and-beam structure.

In an interview this week, Executive Director Caroline Mullin said the shift came after extended discussions between the Senior Center board and Massies Creek Ventures, the Cliff Street property’s current owner.

“It took a lot to figure out exactly how we fit,” Mullin said, noting that negotiations required “some compromise on both sides.”

Board President Jerry Sutton said the process took “about six months to make it a reality,” moving the possibility of developing the Cliff Street site from “a gleam in the eye” to a secured contract.

Mullin said the Cliff Street property addresses feedback from Senior Center and community members about a desire to keep the center downtown, where it can be both visible and walkable, while also offering room for growth. According to the press release, the lumberyard lot is “approximately 25% larger” than the Livermore parcel and includes existing infrastructure, and can be expanded vertically to include a mezzanine level and elevator.

As the News reported in January, a space usage study completed previously by Dayton-based architect firm LWC Incorporated identified the Senior Center’s need for roughly 11,000 square feet — about three times its current building’s size of 3,700 square feet. Mullin said developing 11,000 square feet can be fully realized on the Cliff Street site’s ground floor alone, in addition to the possibility of expanded space in an upstairs mezzanine.

“All of the rooms that LWC had considered we needed fit within one level on the Cliff Street property,” she said. “So there’s the opportunity to build up and add even more.”

A feasibility study completed in 2025 by Loring Sternberg and Associates to assess the organization’s fundraising capacity noted room for phased construction as a “priority” for the Senior Center; Mullin said the Cliff Street site, with its size and existing infrastructure, will allow for a phased approach. Earlier this year, Mullin stated that the total project cost was projected to be around $7 million; the ability to build in stages, she added this week, could allow the project to move forward even if full funding is not secured upfront.

The organization has already begun the first phase of a capital campaign to fund the acquisition, inspections and site preparation, with plans to sell the Livermore property to help finance the project.

“There’s one overarching goal [for the capital campaign], but there is an immediacy that’s necessary to close on buying the Cliff Street site,” Mullin said. “So right now, there’s a push to get $850,000 in hand, some of which will come out of selling the Livermore Street lot.” 

The Senior Center purchased the half-acre lot on Livermore Street for $300,000; Sutton said the Senior Center will offer the land for sale via bid, with the aim to “recoup our cost.”

“We’ll see what the market has done in the intervening two years,” he said.

“The market has changed,” Mullin added, “and we also had a slight shift in the lot size, because we went through an alley vacation process, so there’s a little more land now.”

Mullin reiterated that the Senior Center’s current facility on Xenia Avenue, purchased in 1978, has long been constrained by limited space, accessibility challenges and parking shortages; she told the News in January that those constraints have already limited the number and type of programs the center can offer, even as demand continues to grow. She added this week that a previous board originally identified the need for a new space in 2008.

“It’s been almost 20 years; we’ve had every assessment of this building done to know if we could stay in it — and we can’t,” Mullin said.

By contrast, the new site would allow for a largely single-level layout, with around 30 parking spots available on the property, as well as access to nearby parking areas at the Bryan Center and the municipal lot on Dayton Street, which are near the bike path along which the Cliff Street site is located.

Sutton added that the expanded space available in the former lumberyard building will also offer opportunities to partner with and potentially house other local nonprofits; he said early conversations have begun with such groups, though no formal agreements are in place.

“We’re open to use of that space as a community cultural center,” Sutton said.

As the new building project begins to come into focus, Mullin said Senior Center membership has recently surpassed 800 people — more than we’ve ever had,” she said —  up from about 700 two months ago. Those who use the Senior Center regularly, including its members, are often residents age 60 and older — who account for about 40% of the local population — but also caregivers, volunteers and community members of any age who attend meals, classes and events hosted at the center.

Looking ahead, the Senior Center plans to present updated schematic designs at its annual meeting, slated for Wednesday, June 10. An open house at the Cliff Street site is being planned for May to give community members a chance to view the former lumberyard building and learn more about the project.

If all goes as planned, Mullin and Sutton said, detailed construction drawings could be completed by the end of this year, with a build timeline of 18 to 24 months, putting a potential opening for the new facility in late 2028 or early 2029.

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