Features

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  YS school board— Facilities levy moves forward

  
  
  

  As anticipated, the Yellow Springs school board on Friday morning, June 25, took the first step in putting a levy measure on the November ballot to pay for the proposed construction of a K–12 school, projected to cost nearly $35.6 million, at the current site of the middle/high school campus on East Enon Road.

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  Miami Township Trustees— In-person meetings return

  
  
  

  Fifteen months after the pandemic lockdown began, and with it a transition to conducting Miami Township business through online video conference calls, the Township Trustees returned to in-person meetings Monday, June 21.

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  Little Thunders — Advice, medicine for Antioch graduates

  
  
  

  “And so I offer you — graduates of Antioch — advice grounded in my Anishinaabe teachings of a way forward in all four directions. East is the direction of beginnings, and the teachings from the east remind us that all life is spirit — the wind, earth, fire, and water, all those things that are alive with energy and movement.”

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  MacQueen off YSDC

  
  
  

  The June meeting of the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, began with the surprise announcement that Marianne MacQueen, one of Village Council’s two representatives on the semi-governmental group, was “stepping down effective immediately.”

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  YS Senior Center founder to be memorialized — Plaque to honor Rev. Dr. Matthews

  
  
  

  The Rev. Matthews’ contributions and legacy were honored in a virtual program Thursday, June 24, by the Senior Center. Matthews’ family, center members, villagers and community organization representatives gathered to honor his contributions both to the center and to the village.

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  Reparations fund to address past injustice

  
  
  

  Though the national conversation around reparations began again in earnest last year as Americans took to the streets in protest over the police killings of Black Americans, that conversation continues to stall over a series of sticking points: What should reparations look like? To whom should they be granted? And who should pay them?

Village Council

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  Village Council — Weeds are out, ‘managed’ yards are in

Obituaries

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  Roger Cranos
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  Ray Werner
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  Raymond Lewkowicz
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  Keith Kinney

Featured Photos

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  Antioch College Class of 2021
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  10 for 10
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  Proud crowd