Features

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  My Name Is Iden | The quiet between

  
  
  

  “People are complicated. We laugh, we love, we hope but, we also cry. We bleed, we despair. We scream. All of that is beautiful.”

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  The Patterdale Hall Diaries | A cheeky pint

  
  
  

  “A very common and significant part of British life, the cheeky pint plays a key role in keeping people sane during trying times.”

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  School board censures member Amy Magnus

  
  
  

  The school board’s most recent meeting Thursday, Jan. 9, included an agenda item that concerned an apology offered by board member Amy Magnus. The discussion of that agenda item ended in a 4–0 vote in favor of censuring Magnus, with Magnus abstaining from the vote.

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  Village mourns ‘Doc Pete’

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs reeled Saturday, Jan. 11, upon learning that it had lost a beloved member of its community: Frederick Peterson, Psy.D., known as “Doc Pete” for his work as a clinical psychologist, and as a friendly, welcoming presence to those who crossed his path.

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  YS Community Food Pantry next open Jan. 23

  
  
  

  The YS Community Food Pantry, located at Central Chapel AME Church, 411 S. High St., is open 2–4 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each month.

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  Tin Can Economy | Huddled masses

  
  
  

  “Climate migration is nothing new. The International Displacement Monitoring Centre estimates that an annual average of 21.5 million people were forcibly displaced each year by weather-related events — such as floods, storms, wildfires and droughts — between 2008 and 2016.”

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  Home, Inc. set to award $500K home-repair grants

  
  
  

  Most grants will be up to $16,500 for projects starting in February, including accessibility upgrades, health and safety repairs and weatherization.

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  Mark Lomax Quartet to celebrate ‘A Love Supreme’ anniversary at Foundry

  
  
  

  Dr. Mark Lomax II, who performed in Yellow Springs in fall of 2023 as part of the Foundry Theater at Antioch College’s inaugural season of programming, will return to the Foundry with the Mark Lomax Quartet on Saturday, Jan. 18, to mark the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.”

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  More LIHTC questions than answers at school board meeting

  
  
  

  At the center of the fraught discussion was the ongoing, intergovernmental initiative to build a 30- to 50-unit low-income housing development on the district-owned Morgan soccer fields.

Obituaries

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  Juliet Hennessy

Sports

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  Bulldog Sports Round-Up | Jan. 17, 2025