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Articles by Megan Bachman :: Page 26

  • Employee art show at Yellow Springs Brewery

    Yellow Springs Brewery is hosting its employee art show through June 23 in the taproom.

  • Village Council— New YSPD imagined at forum

    At a forum on policing on Tuesday, May 21, about 50 villagers helped identify the factors that contributed to a positive experience with a police officer, and envisioned a future Yellow Springs Police Department.

  • 20th anniversary of Whitehall Farm auction— ‘Saving Whitehall’ legacy

    Whitehall Farm was permanently preserved. A local land trust was put on the map. And a community victory still inspires.

  • Native American mascot controversy — Schools learn limits of debate

    Should schools use Native American images and names for sports teams? Yellow Springs High School 10th-grade social studies students were set to debate the pros and cons of that question next week before a panel of community member judges. But over the last week, YSHS staff, school parents and villagers wrestled with a different question — should the issue of Native American mascots and nicknames be up for debate?

  • Native American mascot controversy— Schools learn limits of debate

    Should schools use Native American images and names for sports teams? Yellow Springs High School 10th-grade social studies students were set to debate the pros and cons of that question next week before a panel of community member judges.

  • Council pulls parking lot proposal

    Beatty Hughes Park will not soon be the site of a municipal parking lot. A proposal to turn over the downtown park to parking was tabled at Council’s May 20 meeting after public opposition.

  • YSHS senior’s best score — Clark to play for the Quakers

    Photo by megan bachman Yellow Springs High School Senior Andrew Clark is signed to Wilmington College for basketball.

    Looking back on his four-year varsity basketball career at Yellow Springs High School, graduating senior Andrew Clark struggled to pick out a single highlight. Instead, each game was as important as the last. 

  • EDITORIAL: A fight for women’s lives

    A crowd of several thousand people, including many from Yellow Springs, converged on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton Saturday, Jan. 20, for the second annual Dayton Women’s March. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    An April YS News editorial is republished here as anti-choice legislation increasingly becomes law around the country.

  • Council ban on clapping, signs — Do rules violate free speech?

    A small group of citizens used signs to express their approval or disapproval of statements made by Council and other citizens during a Village Council meeting in January. Council later banned signs, along with other expressions such as clapping, in a move that some villagers find troublesome. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    On January 22, Village Council chambers was standing-room only as more than 50 citizens crammed into the room, many to express their disapproval for an ongoing disciplinary process involving a local police officer.

  • Home, Inc. annual meeting speaker — A history of unfair housing

    Longtime fair housing administrator (and Antioch alumnus) Larry Pearl gave attendees to Home, Inc.’s annual meeting a history of housing discrimination in America. The meeting was held at Antioch’s Herndon Gallery on Sunday, May 5, and also commemorated the local affordable housing land trust’s 20th anniversary. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    The average white family in America today has 10 times the wealth of the average black family. To longtime fair housing administrator Larry Pearl, “that’s an amazing figure,” and its cause can be traced to America’s long history of housing discrimination.

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