Articles by Lauren Shows :: Page 6
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Higher Learning Commission alerts Antioch College to ‘financial distress’
The News spoke this week with Antioch College President Jane Fernandes, who said of the designation: “It’s information that we have some financial work to do — that our financials are not just flowing, and now we have to make them work.”
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School board censures member Amy Magnus
The school board’s most recent meeting Thursday, Jan. 9, included an agenda item that concerned an apology offered by board member Amy Magnus. The discussion of that agenda item ended in a 4–0 vote in favor of censuring Magnus, with Magnus abstaining from the vote.
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Miami Township Trustees settle first-of-year business
With deep snow on the ground throughout Miami Township that night, the Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the new year Monday, Jan. 6. At the forefront of the meeting’s agenda was the handling of first-of-year business.
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Villager Joan Chappelle honored with MLK Peacemaker Award
A warm gathering of several hundred local residents in the John Bryan Center gym Monday, Jan. 20, marked the 2025 Martin Luther King Jr Day celebration in Yellow Springs.
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Online posts raise concerns over privacy, transparency
A group of messages shared in a local Facebook group earlier this month has raised questions, both broad and specific, about transparency and ethics within public bodies and the separation of public identities from private ones.
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Police chief responds to downtown thefts
Two thefts took place at downtown businesses at the turn of the new year and spurred the Chamber of Commerce to send out a word of advice to local business owners late last week: Keep an eye out and take security precautions.
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Mark Lomax Quartet to celebrate ‘A Love Supreme’ anniversary at Foundry
Dr. Mark Lomax II, who performed in Yellow Springs in fall of 2023 as part of the Foundry Theater at Antioch College’s inaugural season of programming, will return to the Foundry with the Mark Lomax Quartet on Saturday, Jan. 18, to mark the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.”
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2024 In Review | Village Life
Milestones were reached, celebrations held, good causes supported and more in 2024 — just another year of typical village life in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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A beloved and well-fed community
On the third Saturday of each month, there’s a kind of family meal at First Presbyterian Church. The Beloved Community Project, which hosts the free monthly meals, considers anyone who crosses the threshold to be family — come on out, no questions asked, and you’ll be fed.
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2024 In Review | Education
From ongoing facilities improvements, transfers of school property to incoming and outgoing educators — 2024 was a great year for education in Yellow Springs.
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