Features

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  Farewell to a kiln, and its master

  
  
  

  With paper cranes folded by his children nestled as tinder among a stack of wood, on Friday, March 15, Brad Husk struck a flame and set the paper wings alight.

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  ‘OPEN’-ing hip-hop in Yellow Springs

  
  
  

  Local resident Justin Herman, with Yellow Springs’ burgeoning hip-hop community, is working to create an open space for creativity, collaboration and collective vision.

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  School board to hire contractor to investigate alleged policy violations

  
  
  

  The YS school board returned to discussion of the censure of a board member at its most recent regular meeting Thursday, March 14. Though a resolution to authorize the proposed censure was on the agenda for the evening, it was not voted on.

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  EXTENDED COVERAGE | March 14 homicide upheaves Yellow Springs

  
  
  

  Following a four-day manhunt, and amid an ongoing investigation by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, Jackson Isaiah Bleything, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody Sunday, March 17.

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  Yellow Springs Hardware to launch concert series, pilot classes

  
  
  

  Yellow Springs Hardware will host the first in an anticipated series of “Hardware Store Sessions,” featuring locally based musicians George Bieri and Friends, on Friday, March 22, 7–9 p.m.

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  2024 OHIO PRIMARY RESULTS | YS Schools substitute levy fails

  
  
  

  Preliminary results of the Tuesday, March 19, primary election are now available. Locally, a 9-mill YS Schools substitute levy failed at the polls, with 589 votes for and 722 votes against.

Obituaries

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  Laurel Paster
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  Don Gasho
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  Donald ‘Don’ E. Williams
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  Ethan Wilson Thomas