Ohio citizens were lit up about this year’s issues on marijuana legalization, and while voters around Ohio and in Greene County both returned a deafening “no” to Issue 3 to legalize the regulated growth and use of marijuana, Yellow Springers felt very differently.

Yellow Springs voters resoundingly approved the proposed amendments to the Village Charter on Nov. 3, voting 81 percent to 19 percent in favor of the Charter changes.

While the unofficial results of the 2015 election did not specify the percentage of voters who participated by press time, the total number of people who voted from Yellow Springs was 1,803, and those from Miami Township numbered 573.

Cecil Robert Newman, 91, of Yellow Springs, Ohio

Stephen W. Williams, age 78, of Dayton, passed away Monday, Nov. 9, 2015.

Mamie Ruth Rhone, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at Kettering Medical Center. She was 87.

In a close race among just four candidates for three Village Council seats, Yellow Springs voters returned incumbents Marianne MacQueen and Gerald Simms to office on Nov. 3, and voted in former Council President Judith Hempfling. Hopeful Chrissy Cruz did not win a seat.

Ruby Evangeline Wells Nicholson died peacefully the evening of Oct. 31, 2015.

Ordinance No. 2015-21, Village Of Yellow Springs, Ohio

Ordinance No. 2015-26, Village Of Yellow Springs, Ohio