Features

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  News from the Past — July & August 2021

  
  
  

  25 years ago: 1996 — Two local men injured in Atlanta bomb blast. Yellow Springs High School graduates Lynn Smith, 34, and Eric Johnson, 30, were seriously injured in the early morning explosion of a bomb that shook Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Ga.

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  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs returns for 2021-2022 season

  
  
  

  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will be returning to in-person concerts this season, with some innovations — including providing livestreaming.

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  Two election petitions rejected in YS school board race

  
  
  

  Two Yellow Springs School Board incumbents, Vice President Aïda Mehermic and first-term member Steve McQueen will not be eligible to run for office in the 2021 election cycle because their petitions were not certified by the Greene County Board of Elections, or BOE.

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  Continued coverage— Yellow Springs police chief resigns

  
  
  

  On Wednesday, Aug. 18, the Village of Yellow Springs announced in a press release that Yellow Springs Police Chief Brian Carlson had resigned.

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  New beginnings for YS schools

  
  
  

  The first day of classes for Yellow Springs Schools was Monday, Aug. 23. And while the start of a new academic year is typically cause for heightened emotion — whether excitement or dread — this new start contains more feeling than typical years past.

Village Council

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  Village Council seeks $4 million grant for broadband infrastructure

Obituaries

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  Carlton Edward Wheeler
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  Barry Heermann