Features

• 
  Sankofa Talk | Thoughts on a ‘better way’

  
  
  

  “A partnership involves listening to another’s point of view. Ask the students if they have experienced that. I might add that a partnership does not involve accusing anyone you claim to be wanting to partner with to be the purveyor of misinformation, especially when there is no evidence of that.”

• 
  Preschoolers celebrate World Down Syndrome Day

  
  
  

  Mike Anderson and Katie Warber helped students in the school’s morning and afternoon classes celebrate at story time by reading Amy E. Sturkey’s “‘D’ is for Down Syndrome,” which uses each letter of the alphabet to introduce young readers to aspects of life growing up with Down syndrome.

• 
  A brief history of Omar Circle

  
  
  

  One of the nation’s few housing subdivisions built by an African American developer is nestled in a location that spans 21.2-acres and includes houses situated across the street from Yellow Springs High School, and just down the road from Gaunt Park.

• 
  Extended Coverage | Paige Burge sworn in as YSPD chief

  
  
  

  Nearly eight months after the resignation of Brian Carlson, Interim Chief Paige Burge has been named the chief of the Yellow Springs Police Department. She is the first woman and member of the LGBTQ+ community to take the helm of the YSPD.

• 
  School facilities committee moves forward

  
  
  

  Recently elected board members Judith Hempfling and Dorothée Bouquet, who were on different sides of the previous facilities plan that was defeated by voters this past fall, presented a joint proposal for moving forward on the issue last month.

• 
  Planning Commission approves new village farm

  
  
  

  A proposal for a small farm and adjacent farm goods store within the village was given the green light, with several caveats, by the Yellow Springs Planning Commission.

• 
  Extended Coverage | New Yellow Springs subdivision proposed

  
  
  

  Miamisburg-based development company DDC Management, Inc., is seeking to build a 89-lot subdivision in northwestern Yellow Springs.

• 
  COVID Update | March 24, 2022

  
  
  

  The state’s number of new cases tallied from Thursday, March 10, through Thursday March 17, were 3,605, with the total number of active cases reported by the ODH on the 17th at 4,923.

Obituaries

• 
  Mary Joan Kennedy