Features

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  Author Gaia Cornwall visits Mills Lawn

  
  
  

  On Monday, Jan. 31, students in Heidi Hoover and Debra Mabra’s second grade classes at Mills Lawn Elementary School got a special virtual visit from author Gaia Cornwall.

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  The Briar Patch | Horses and synchronicity of spirit

  
  
  

  “These boundaries — fluid, but rigid at the same time — are hard to navigate in Yellow Springs, particularly as a Black woman.”

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  News from the Past: January & February 2022

  
  
  

  50 years ago, in 1972, an Antioch student strike loomed. “The Antioch College campus has been in a turmoil since Friday and appeared to remain uneasy as the News approached press-time today.”

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  Music Review | Dayton’s Houseghost at Melody Inn

  
  
  

  A Dayton-based “spooky punk” outfit, Houseghost recalls the genre’s classic sounds with edgy `90s pop sensibilities

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  Redistricting Update | Groups renew legal challenges

  
  
  

  In a 5–2 vote that followed party lines, the Republican-dominated Ohio Redistricting Commission will to go back to the drawing board to produce new district maps for the state’s General Assembly.

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  Changes expected at Yellow Springs Development Corporation’s annual meeting

  
  
  

  As a relatively new nonprofit organization, the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, will hold its first annual meeting Tuesday, Feb. 8.

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  Co-creating shared spaces for people of color

  
  
  

  Last fall, YS Home, Inc. Executive Director Emily Seibel took part in a fireside chat keynote discussion for the annual conference of Ohio Community Development Corporation Association, speaking with Jamar Doyle, of Greater Collinwood Development Corporation, and Evelyn Burnett, of ThirdSpace Action Lab.

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  Nearly $1M in improvements slated for Glen Helen

  
  
  

  The old Antioch College power plant will soon be demolished and the land rehabbed into wetlands, thanks in part to a $988,119 grant from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund.

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  COVID Update | Feb. 3, 2022

  
  
  

  As COVID-19 case numbers remain at staggeringly high levels, Ohio’s top health official shared a “cautiously optimistic” message last week.

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  Son takes the helm at Tom’s Market

  
  
  

  After 57 years of working in Yellow Springs’ downtown grocery, proprietor Tom Gray is retiring, and taking over the store is his youngest son, Jeff Gray.

Obituaries

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  Evelyn Sikes
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  JoAnn Wallace

Sports

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  Feb. 3, 2022 | Bulldog Sports Round-Up