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• Dodgers Youth Minor League champions

  By YS News StaffAugust 4, 2020

  

  In the Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Minor League, on Wednesday, July 22, the Trail Tavern Dodgers completed their playoff run with an 8–6 victory over the top seed, the Posterior Chain Reds.

• Village Council— Anti-racist steps demanded

  By Megan BachmanJuly 29, 2020

  

  Organizers of recent weekly anti-racism rallies downtown aired criticism at Council’s July 20 virtual meeting of Village efforts to address racism.

• Remembering Phyllis Jackson

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Yellow Springs resident Phyllis Jackson, 95, died on July 11 after a long and rich life of service to the community she loved. A memorial service was held for Jackson on Saturday, July 18, at Central Chapel AME Church, where she’d been a member since 1943.

• YS Development Corporation— Township fire station up for sale

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The soon-to-be-vacated Miami Township fire station at 225 Corry St. is for sale by the Yellow Springs Development Corporation. Originally built in 1956, and updated in the ’60s and ’70s, the commercial building is listed for $400,000.

• New studio set to open— Get inked at YS INK Arts Collective

  By Reilly DixonJuly 24, 2020

  

  YS INK Arts Collective, co-owned by longtime Yellow Springs residents Pierre Nagley and Lindsay Burke, is opening its doors on Dayton Street as a new hub for local artistry.

• Teachers urge online option

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 22, 2020

  

  As Yellow Springs school district leaders consider what educational approach to take when the 2020–21 academic year begins Aug. 27, the local teachers union says the risks of returning to the classroom amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic are too great, and is calling for “100% virtual” learning when school resumes.

• Yellow Springs Schools— Town hall addresses restart

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Yellow Springs Schools Superintendent Terri Holden fielded questions from local parents regarding the district’s school start options at a town hall meeting on Monday, July 20. The district could make a decision about school restart as early as Sunday, July 26.

• Home, Inc. and St. Mary — Senior housing funding denied

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  A planned 54-unit senior apartment building in Yellow Springs was turned down for funding for the second consecutive year.

• Masks required by law downtown

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Council unanimously passed an emergency ordinance mandating facial coverings downtown and on Village-owned properties when physical distancing of six feet is not possible.

• Yellow Springs Schools— Reopening plan in flux

  By Carol Simmons

  

  With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to spread in our community and region, and the 2020–21 school year scheduled to begin in a mere six weeks, uncertainty and worry seem to be the overwhelming feelings among many families considering educational choices for their children.