Features

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  My Name Is Iden | What’s in a dead name?

  
  
  

  “What would it be like to watch yourself die? To be at the bedside, holding your own hand for your final breath?”

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  The Briar Patch | Remembering Nancy Green

  
  
  

  “In many ways, art is one of the last bastions of propaganda that pushes racist and imperialist ideology through our visual engagement in society.”

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  School facilities improvement process begins

  
  
  

  At its Dec. 14 regular meeting, the Yellow Springs Board of Education took its first step toward realizing the district school facilities improvements that were approved by voters last month.

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  Building Community | 25 years of home, for all

  
  
  

  This year, affordable housing nonprofit YS Home, Inc. reached two major milestones: The first phase of its upcoming 32-unit combined senior rental and all-ages, for-sale townhome development, The Cascades, was fully funded — and the nonprofit celebrated its 25th anniversary.

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  Local realtor Allison Moody to list Center for Business and Education

  
  
  

  Approximately 20 acres on the CBE — which adjoin marijuana producer Cresco Labs and Antioch University Midwest, and which have been for sale for over 10 years — will be listed for $75,000-$125,000 per acre beginning mid-January, with Allison Moody as the listing agent.

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  Planning Commission broaches changes to Airbnb rules

  
  
  

  At the group’s most recent meeting on Thursday, Dec. 14, the Village Planning Commission considered the possibility of loosening regulations on the 42 registered — and future — Airbnbs in Yellow Springs.

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  YS Federal Credit Union members approve merger

  
  
  

  On Thursday, Dec. 14, the YS Federal Credit Union, or YSCU, tallied final votes from member-owners that would determine if the longtime local credit union would merge with central-Ohio-based Bridge Credit Union — and member-owners overwhelmingly voted “yes.”

Village Council

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  Village Council | Utility Round-Up now ‘opt-out’

Obituaries

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  Lorine Ashley Watkins
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  Joyce White Sandberg
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  Kim Williams Rea