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• Facilities listening sessions begin

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2023

  

  The purpose of the event was to present to community members potential plans for upgrading the district’s schools that have already been discussed over the last several months by the Facilities Committee — as well as plans that have not yet been discussed — and listen to community feedback on those plans.

• A tale of two pilgrims

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 6, 2023

  

  For longtime Yellow Springs residents Diana Glawe and Emily Foubert, the famed Camino de Santiago — Europe’s longest and most storied pilgrimage route — offered lessons in love, loss and letting go.

• Turner steps into director role at YSCCC

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 3, 2023

  

  A Columbus native now living in Springfield, Turner has been part of the staff of the Children’s Center since 2018, and replaces former director Dana Zackey after serving as Zackey’s assistant director since last summer.

• YSHS senior brings back cheer camp

  By Jessica ThomasFebruary 2, 2023

  

  Senior Sophie Clouse-Taylor and the Yellow Springs High School cheer team hosted 37 Mills Lawn Elementary students for a three-day mini cheer camp. Clouse-Taylor organized the event for her senior capstone project.

• Miami Township trustees | Kingwood opposition continues

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 1, 2023

  

  The Miami Township Board of Trustees continued to discuss the recent decision by the Ohio Power Siting Board, or OPSB, against Texas-based Vesper Energy’s proposed 175-megawatt, utility-scale Kingwood solar project at the trustees’ most recent meeting Wednesday, Jan. 18.

• Review | Of whales and love’s conditions

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Darren Aronofsky’s 2022 film, “The Whale,” is an exercise in discomfort. Audiences are spurred to shift in their seats as they watch the protagonist of undeniable size — played by the almost universally beloved Brendan Fraser — struggle to help himself time and again.

• Down to Earth | Fall webworms, friend or foe?

  By Guest ContributorJanuary 30, 2023

  

  There is a spectacle that occurs in summer each year around Yellow Springs that generates both amazement and concern among citizens and visitors of this town. No, it’s not Street Fair; it’s the return of fall webworms to their local perches.

• Greene County to build new jail

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  After two failed attempts to levy funds for a new jail through sales tax, and nearly a year of decisions about finance, design and size, the Greene County Commissioners and sheriff’s office will break ground on a $61 million, 250-bed jail this spring.

• Students of the Month — January 2023

  By YS News Staff

  

  YS Schools announced the January recipients of student and faculty awards at the Jan. 12 Board of Education meeting.

• My Name Is Iden | ‘Best self’ over being ‘the best’

  By Iden CrockettJanuary 29, 2023

  

  The new year is upon us. A time for reflection and, for many of us, resolution. This is the time for getting to work on being our “best selves.”