Features

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  Five Clifton Village Council seats unfilled

  
  
  

  Nov. 2 election results that left the Village of Clifton with five of six Village Council seats unfilled for terms beginning Jan. 1 is being attributed to the small number of residents combined with state certification rules for office-seekers.

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  Artist Profile | ‘Mapping the void’ with steel and wood

  
  
  

  Somewhere among the heaps of rusty scrap metal and mounds of sawdust in his small garage, local artist and fourth-generation welder Seth Ratliff has honed a craft that’s allowed him to find order in all the chaos.

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  Clifton Crafthouse Co-op set to open in 2022

  
  
  

  When completed, the combined taproom, community event space, commercial kitchen and affordable artist residences will work in tandem to support one another.

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  Antioch and YSDC part ways over Wellness Center

  
  
  

  Jane Fernandes, President of Antioch College, announced that the college will no longer be working with the Yellow Springs Development Corporation to reopen the Wellness Center.

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  Looking ahead after school levy loss

  
  
  

  At a 61%-39% spread, Yellow Springs district voters last week rejected a combined 6.5-mill, 37-year property tax and a 0.5% income tax increase with no end date to build a $35.6 million K–12 school at the location of the current middle/high school on East Enon Road.

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  Little Thunders — Honoring ancestral brilliance

  
  
  

  “The beauty of this time of year reminds me why it is so vital to honor my ancestors by keeping the traditions that have been passed down through the generations, and by keeping alive the skills they passed along.”

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  Mills Lawn students open Veteran’s and Peace Park

  
  
  

  On Thursday, Nov. 11, Veteran’s Day, Mill Lawn Elementary School students created a temporary Veterans and Peace Park on the Mills Lawn tennis courts, which is now open for visitors after school hours and on the weekend through Friday, Nov. 19.

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  Review | The tweedy pastiche of ‘The French Dispatch’

  
  
  

  “It is, after all, both in form and reference, a love letter to The New Yorker and some of its past luminaries.”

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  COVID-19 Update — November 11, 2021

  
  
  

  As anticipated, the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, last week recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 pediatric vaccine for children ages 5–11.

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  COVID closes YS Community Children’s Center again

  
  
  

  The Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center announced Monday, Nov. 8, that it was closing its doors temporarily for the second time in three months due to COVID-19.

Obituaries

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  Leonard Roberts