Village Life Section :: Page 47

• COVID-19 cases mount in YS

  By Audrey HackettDecember 5, 2020

  

  While the village has lagged surrounding communities in its rate and spread of COVID-19, local organizations and businesses are beginning to see — and in some instances publicly announce — more positive cases here.

• DeWine outlines vaccine distribution plan

  By Audrey HackettDecember 4, 2020

  

  Ohio is about 10 days away from receiving its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. Frontline health care workers, emergency medical personnel and residents and staff at nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other congregate living settings will be the first recipients of the vaccine.

• News from the Past

  By YS News StaffDecember 1, 2020

  

  In last week’s “News from the Past” column, contributing writer Don Hollister did another dive into the YS News archives and compiled some of the more compelling headlines that occurred in past Novembers.

• Local COVID-19 response— Village steps up enforcement

  By Megan BachmanNovember 29, 2020

  

  As the third wave of the coronavirus rages through the state and county, the Village of Yellow Springs is cracking down on behaviors that could further spread COVID-19 in town.

• Protest held outside Gov. DeWine home

  By Reilly DixonNovember 27, 2020

  

  On Friday, Nov. 20, nearly 200 demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Mike DeWine’s home in Cedarville Township to protest his and the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19-related mandates, including the statewide mask order and the 10 p.m. curfew.

• COVID-19 contact tracing— More cases, more contacts

  By Audrey HackettNovember 25, 2020

  

  The local health department’s contact tracing team now includes nine people, including employees from the Ohio Department of Health, part of the state’s scaled-up contact tracing workforce.

• Little Thunders— Unsettling Truthsgiving

  By YS News Staff

  

  This November 26, as you sit down to your meal, I have a message for the young people because they will understand better than anyone else: There is no need to shy away from the truth.

• The Briar Patch— On kindness

  By Cheryl DurgansNovember 24, 2020

  

  And what would Cleola think of this iteration of kindness we are experiencing now? This market driven world of contemporary culture that has attempted to commoditize kindness into a kindness tourist destination trap.

• Village Impact Project— Mentoring aims to change lives

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 21, 2020

  

  Founded by high school intervention specialist Donna Haller, and initially launched in January 2019 under the auspices of the area Big Brother Big Sister organization, the local group struck out on its own and formed a governing board of trustees that summer.

• Gov. DeWine imposes curfew

  By Megan BachmanNovember 18, 2020

  

  At a press conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state was imposing a curfew to help curb the “dramatic” spread of COVID-19 in the state.