Features

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  Antioch College— Manley to leave in December

  
  
  

  Antioch College President Tom Manley is leaving the presidency earlier than planned due to health issues. Manley will become “president emeritus” as of Dec. 1, he announced in an email to the college community on Friday, Oct. 30.

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  Planning Commission— Costly repairs ahead for YS?

  
  
  

  Burns described a series of specific stormwater issues related to aging infrastructure — which in some parts of town date back to the late 1800s, he said — certain kinds of lot designs, more intense storms than previously and other factors.

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  Mural to honor Virginia Hamilton

  
  
  

  Local artist Pierre Nagley recently started painting a new mural honoring the life and works of famed local author Virginia Hamilton. The mural, located on the wall of the Yellow Springs News building, is being spearheaded by Help Us Make a Nation, or H.U.M.A.N., a recently revived local human rights organization founded here in the ’70s.

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  Community Solutions to host restorative conference

  
  
  

  This year’s conference, the organization’s 66th, is titled “Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency and Reciprocity,” with a particular focus on food growing and preservation. It will be conducted online this weekend, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8.

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  COVID-19 update— ‘There is no place to hide’ in Ohio

  
  
  

  October brought a whirlwind of bad news about COVID-19 spread in Ohio. New cases soared statewide, hospitalizations increased and more counties than ever flipped to “red” on the state’s COVID-19 heat map.

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  2020 Election preliminary results— Trump takes Ohio, Village levy passes

  
  
  

  According to unofficial results, Trump won Ohio, and its 18 electoral votes, by a margin of 53% to 45%.

Obituaries

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  Jeannetta M. Gilreath