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As the village drifts into autumn and the days get colder, the Yellow Springs Youth Orchestra Association, or YSYOA, aims to bring area residents some musical warmth.

Physical pain is an inevitable part of life, and it serves as a way for the body to indicate injury or illness. For most of us, it’s an intermittent state — one to be expected, but to be borne temporarily.

Mirroring a decision made by Village Council earlier the same week, the YS Board of Education voted 3–2 during a special meeting Thursday, Nov. 21, to approve an option to purchase agreement with the Village of Yellow Springs.

Most of us know charcoal as the small, black briquets we use to grill or smoke food for backyard barbecues, or to rid our compost buckets of their characteristic odor. But an upcoming workshop at Agraria hopes to educate folks about a kind of charcoal, known as biochar, that has the potential to reinvigorate soil and help mitigate climate change.

At its most recent meeting on Thursday, Nov. 14, the YS Board of Education provided updates to the ongoing discussion around the potential sale and development of 3.6 acres of district-owned land on East Enon Road, known locally as Morgan Fields, for a proposed 50-unit low-income housing development.

Local resident Dr. John E. Fleming has spent much of his life working to bring visibility to American history — in particular, African American history — via his five decades as a historian who has helped establish museums throughout the U.S.

As community conversation has attested over the last month, the Nov. 5 presidential election has left many villagers with a lot to think — and worry, rage and mourn — about. Up and down village sidewalks, in the aisles of Tom’s Market and in the pages of the News’ “Community Forum,” Yellow Springers have been asking themselves and each other: “What now?”

The Little Art Theatre is moving toward its 95th birthday next year with some updates already in its pocket — and more on the horizon.

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 Count

The cast and crew of the middle and high school winter play: The Brothers Grimm Spectaculation,” successfully mounted four performances of the madcap show last week.