A sales tax increase to pay for a new, larger county jail is headed to the March 2020 primary ballot.

Beverly Ann (Willis) Hasser, age 68, of Hilliard, Ohio, was called home into the arms of our Lord on Dec. 13, 2019, at 10:50 p.m., surrounded by all her children and the love of her life, Darrell Schonborn Sr.

This fall that the Ohio Department of Education had added Mills Lawn Elementary to the list of Ohio public schools where students can get funding — commonly called “vouchers” — to attend a qualifying charter or private school.

Virgil Hervey died on Dec. 10, 2019. He was 75 years old.

YSHS is presenting “Scrooge! The Musical” from Thursday, Dec. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater, at Antioch College,  920 Corry St.

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Fitzpatrick’s solo cello invocation for the project, an original composition that has become a signature piece in his continuing focus on music as an agent of peace and healing, will be among the works featured when the classically trained musician returns to Yellow Springs to perform a Solstice Concert on Sunday, Dec. 22, at House of AUM.

Larry H. Kimbro, 83, of Yellow Springs, Ohio passed away on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019.

The news about local news has mostly been bad news. Already faced with declining readership, shrinking advertising and growing digital competition, the newspaper industry has been hit hard with a string of cynical corporate buyouts, takeovers and mergers.

YSHS is presenting “Scrooge! The Musical” from Thursday, Dec. 12, to Sunday, Dec. 15, at the Foundry Theater, at Antioch College,  920 Corry St.