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• Yellow Springs Schools— Reopening amid uncertainty

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2020

  

  This is the first part of a two-part article. The second part will feature responses of families to the school district’s reopening plans, including a deeper look at the recent parent/guardian survey, as well as the thoughts of local teachers.

• Little Thunders— Speaking Indian

  By YS News StaffNovember 16, 2020

  

  Whenever I hear an Elder speak our traditional Ojibwe language, known as anishinaabemowin, my eyes fill with tears. I become overwhelmed with emotion. I’m told that tears are the ancestors coming to visit and wash my vision to help me heal from historical trauma.

• Antioch College— Manley to leave in December

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Antioch College President Tom Manley is leaving the presidency earlier than planned due to health issues. Manley will become “president emeritus” as of Dec. 1, he announced in an email to the college community on Friday, Oct. 30.

• Planning Commission— Costly repairs ahead for YS?

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Burns described a series of specific stormwater issues related to aging infrastructure — which in some parts of town date back to the late 1800s, he said — certain kinds of lot designs, more intense storms than previously and other factors.

• Mural to honor Virginia Hamilton

  By Megan BachmanNovember 13, 2020

  

  Local artist Pierre Nagley recently started painting a new mural honoring the life and works of famed local author Virginia Hamilton. The mural, located on the wall of the Yellow Springs News building, is being spearheaded by Help Us Make a Nation, or H.U.M.A.N., a recently revived local human rights organization founded here in the ’70s.

• Community Solutions to host restorative conference

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2020

  

  This year’s conference, the organization’s 66th, is titled “Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency and Reciprocity,” with a particular focus on food growing and preservation. It will be conducted online this weekend, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8.

• COVID-19 update— ‘There is no place to hide’ in Ohio

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  October brought a whirlwind of bad news about COVID-19 spread in Ohio. New cases soared statewide, hospitalizations increased and more counties than ever flipped to “red” on the state’s COVID-19 heat map.

• Indigenous water protector’s panel— A path to ‘re-indigenizing’ Antioch

  By Megan BachmanNovember 10, 2020

  

  “We are on stolen land and we need to recognize that,” Jennifer Knickerbocker said to solemn applause at the start of a panel discussion last week during Antioch College’s Earth Week.

• The 2020-21 Guide to Yellow Springs: downtown, then and now

  By Megan BachmanNovember 9, 2020

  

  This year’s Guide to Yellow Springs examines the village’s downtown, a reflection of our authentic, offbeat, casual and creative counterculture values.

• A path to progress on race?

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  This is fourth in a series on the impacts of racism in Yellow Springs and local anti-racist efforts and approaches.