Features

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  Local farmers eye uncertainty

  
  
  

  Life and growth are happening on local farms against the backdrop of massive shutdown and uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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  Mills Lawn elementary school principal to leave district

  
  
  

  Matt Housh, principal of Mills Lawn elementary school for the past decade, announced in a letter to school families Tuesday, April 7, that he has accepted a position with Huber Heights City Schools and will be leaving the Yellow Springs district at the end of the academic year.

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  The world of COVID-19 — Seniors learn to adapt

  
  
  

  How are older Yellow Springers faring in this new isolation? To find out, the News spoke to about a dozen villagers, most in their 80s or older.

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  Keeping the faith amid crisis

  
  
  

  Local faith groups have not held face-to-face services for several weeks now, adopting alternative ways to worship and come together.

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  YS food relief effort: An update

  
  
  

  A brief updated provided by Melissa Heston, outreach manager for the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, who is focusing on local food relief efforts during the coronavirus crisis.

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  Making masks— Villagers stitch to save lives

  
  
  

  Locally, sewing-machine-wielding villagers have beaten the CDC to the proverbial punch, having already mobilized a large effort to provide face masks for those in the community and surrounding areas who work daily in the village’s public eye.