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• Yellow Springs school board discusses high rate of student absences

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 6, 2023

  

  Students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of instruction during a school year. That percentage is calculated via the ratio of absent hours — both excused or unexcused — to total possible hours of instruction during a school year.

• ‘Restrained roots’ coming to the Foundry Theater at Antioch College

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 4, 2023

  

  The Foundry Theater at Antioch College will continue its first season of programming with a performance from musicians Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert on Wednesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 7 p.m.

• Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs focus of upcoming talk

  By Reilly DixonNovember 3, 2023

  

  The genealogy of Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs will be the focus of a community workshop presented by Antioch College and hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom on two consecutive Saturdays in December.

• 2023 Village Inspiration and Design Award celebration set

  By YS News Staff

  

  The YS Public Arts & Culture Commission will honor its 2023 VIDA recipients in a celebration Friday, Nov. 3, 6–8 p.m., at Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

• Poke Island under new ownership

  By Guest Contributor

  

  Jessica Alt, a 1987 graduate of Yellow Springs High School whose family lives in the village, completed the purchase of the restaurant, renamed Jessica’s Poke Island, at 135 Dayton St. last month.

• My Name Is Iden | One inch at a time

  By Iden CrockettNovember 2, 2023

  

  Ask yourself, “Where is the fight?” It isn’t at the finish line. It is one step past the last.

• Antioch College | Exhibition honors grunge legend Mia Zapata

  By Guest Contributor

  

  The exhibition is the first-ever retrospective centering Zapata’s visual art and the first time many of these pieces have been shown publicly since their creation in the late 1980s. Zapata is best known for being the lead singer and frontwoman of The Gits.

• A beloved return

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 31, 2023

  

  After being put on pause at the start of the pandemic, the local Beloved Community Project resumed its monthly free community meals at First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, Oct. 21.

• 2023 General Election | Candidates sound off at local forum

  By YS News StaffOctober 30, 2023

  

  On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18 and 19, the James A. McKee Association held its traditional Candidates Night Forum events in the Mills Lawn gym in anticipation of the upcoming Nov. 7 election.

• Students of the Month | October 2023

  By YS News StaffOctober 25, 2023

  

  YS schools announced the October recipients of student and faculty awards at the Oct. 12 Board of Education meeting.