Features

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  School board talks safety, start times and exam exemptions

  
  
  

  Traffic safety around district campuses, new school start times and a student proposal to revise the high school’s exam exemption policy were among the topics discussed at the school board’s regular meeting Wednesday, March 11.

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  Yellow Springs Film Festival’s ‘Mini-Fest’ returns this weekend

  
  
  

  On Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4, the Yellow Springs Film Festival’s Mini-Fest is returning to the village and beyond with a slate of cinematic programming.

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  New mail station in Clifton

  
  
  

  Earlier this month, Clifton residents celebrated the opening of their new mail station, which they erected after their post office was unexpectedly closed late last year, the day after Christmas.

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  Winds rip through village

  
  
  

  An unlucky day for quite a few Ohioans — on Friday, the 13th, a dramatic windstorm knocked out power for more than 100,000 folks throughout the state, according to the National Weather Service.

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  Women’s History Month Songwriters’ Round returns

  
  
  

  Four local musicians spanning generations in age will take the stage at Little Art Theatre for the second annual Women’s History Month Songwriters’ Round.

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  YS Development Corp. mulls over future of downtown buildings

  
  
  

  At YSDC’s last meeting, Tuesday, March 3, the group — composed of eight voting members, two staffers and five ex-officio members — mulled over the potential that lies ahead for 252 and 254 Xenia Ave.

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  Three-day road closure on U.S. 68

  
  
  

  Beginning Tuesday, March 24, a stretch of U.S. 68, about six miles south of downtown Yellow Springs, will close for three days. The closure — by Brush Row Road and Great Council State Park in Oldtown — will go into effect at 8 a.m., and will be in place through late Thursday.

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  Community dance concert set

  
  
  

  The annual Valerie Ann Blackwell-Truitt Community Dance and Performance Arts Concert is set for Friday and Saturday, March 27 and 28, in the gymnasium of John Bryan Community Center, 100 Dayton St.

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  Cello quartet to perform

  
  
  

  Galvin Cello Quartet will perform Sunday, March 22, for the last regular concert of the Chamber Music in Yellow Springs 2025–26 season. The 4 p.m. performance will take place in the sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, 314 Xenia Avenue.

Obituaries

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  Linda Jean (Johnson) Dillenbeck

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