Features

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  Caring for COVID’s sickest patients

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs resident Chasilee Crawford is an ICU, or intensive care unit, nurse at Springfield Regional Medical Center. She volunteered to work in the hospital’s designated COVID-19 specific ICU when it was formed last March, and has been caring for patients who are severely ill with the disease ever since.

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  Health Commissioner Melissa Howell— A closer look at area surge

  
  
  

  Ohio saw a massive bump in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Dec. 8. That day, 25,721 new cases were reported, bringing the statewide case total well over the half-million mark since the pandemic’s start.

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  Solar ‘canopy’ eyed for parking lot

  
  
  

  Initial plans call for a solar canopy at the John Bryan Community Center. The covered pavilion would feature a solar roof with at least a 200-kilowatt capacity, with vehicle parking and event space underneath.

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  Outside investigation complete— Officer violated no policies

  
  
  

  At issue was whether YSPD Officer Dave Meister violated Village policy and state law by allegedly telling a citizen that a fellow officer, Paige Burge, referred to some attendees of the weekly Black Lives Matter rallies as an “angry mob.”

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  Digital ‘Dracula’— High School takes stage to film

  
  
  

  YSHS performing arts teacher Sparrow-Knapp decided to stick her neck out this year — so to speak — and take a chance with a filmed version of “Dracula,” a show she said she’s long wanted to stage.

Obituaries

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  Dorothy Call
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  Richard Kenneth ‘Ken’ Powers

Sports

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  December 10, 2020 — Bulldog Sports Round-Up