• At Village Council’s first meeting of the year, Trish Gustafson was sworn in to serve a two-year term, succeeding Marianne MacQueen who chose not to run for reelection and stepped down from Council ...

Area resident and Mills Park Hotel co-owner Alex Price took charge of the Chamber of Commerce as board chair and interim executive director. Price succeeded Mark Heise, whose three-year term expired ...

“Ask a Transperson” is an occasional blog written by News columnist Iden Crockett. The blog is a space dedicated to answering your questions about what it means to be trans — from Crockett’s ...

Local police nab ‘Numbers King.’ “Smart fast police work on the part of Police Chief Russell Bradley is credited by Mayor Paul Kintzel as bringing about the first arrest and conviction here Tuesday of ...

This time of year, heading into the general extravagance of the holidays, has a tendency to magnify corners of the community where need exists: Cozy moments with family around a well-appointed dinner ...

Though the bulk of the school board’s most recent regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 12, was business as usual, the meeting’s last half hour was a return to the heightened tensions that have marked ...

At the most recent Village Council meeting, Monday, Dec. 16, Council members took a critical step toward the potential construction of a large-scale, low-income housing development in the western ...

The YS Martin Luther King Day planning committee has announced plans for the 2025 event. The annual celebration will take place Monday, Jan. 20, with the theme “Stepping Up for Freedom 365.” Gathering ...

“Mary Willie Johnson Durgans Willett passed away peacefully surrounded by the love of her family during a majestic sunrise on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.” I’d written this line in her obituary on behalf ...

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 ...

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. Pictured on stage at the Clifton ...

It’s a straightforward question, and one easily answered this time of year. With dinner tables crowded with cranberries and casseroles, holiday hams, potatoes, pies and more, we’re all hungry. Some ...