Features

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  COVID-19 Update — August 5, 2021

  
  
  

  COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the state and county due to the highly contagious Delta variant. Ohio’s COVID-19 per capita case incidence rate rose to 77.4 cases per 100,000 for the two weeks ending July 29, up from 48.5 for the two weeks prior.

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  Tin Can Economy — A space in the school for the swifts

  
  
  

  Walk over to the Union School House on a clear late summer evening and you’ll see them. Swooping and darting through the dusk, conducting aerial dramas against the backdrop of a setting sun: chimney swifts. Hundreds of them.

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  Village PO clerk documents living with ‘long COVID’

  
  
  

  Most Americans are familiar with the most common symptoms of the illness caused by the coronavirus: fever, shortness of breath, sore throat, persistent cough, and loss of taste and/or smell. But what about when the symptoms of COVID linger, unfurling beyond two to six weeks into long months? What happens when those symptoms shift and evolve?

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  Introducing: The Ohio Coffee Co.

  
  
  

  Coming soon to the village is Ohio Coffee Co., a coffee shop, espresso bar and bakery that caters to the whole family including members with four paws.

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  MVECA to move, expand — New owners for 888 Dayton Street

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs-based information technology provider, Miami Valley Educational Computer Association, or MVECA, has purchased 888 Dayton Street.

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  Antioch College names new president

  
  
  

  The Antioch College Board of Trustees announced this week that it has selected Dr. Jane Fernandes as the college’s new president.

Sports

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  Coach Jimmy Chesire signs off