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• Digital ‘Dracula’— High School takes stage to film

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 17, 2020

  

  YSHS performing arts teacher Sparrow-Knapp decided to stick her neck out this year — so to speak — and take a chance with a filmed version of “Dracula,” a show she said she’s long wanted to stage.

• Winter Solstice Poetry Reading— ‘Magics and songs’ offer healing gifts

  By Audrey HackettDecember 8, 2020

  

  The season’s first snowfall came ahead of Tecumseh Land Trust’s annual Winter Solstice Poetry Reading, to be held this year on Friday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m., via Zoom.

• ‘Caesar’s Redemption’— Local history, authentically imagined

  By Audrey HackettDecember 3, 2020

  

  Local playwright Kane Stratton is debuting an eight-minute film vignette drawn from a longer script that explores the life of a Black man named Caesar, a “maroon” among the Shawnee people of southwestern Ohio in the 1770s and beyond.

• Bookplate Ink— The village’s history in bookplates

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 20, 2020

  

  Printed bookplates — also referred to as “ex libris,” after the Latin for “from the library of,” which often precedes the name of a book’s owner on a bookplate — are nearly as old as Gütenberg’s printing press itself.

• More local Chappelle shows OK’d

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 18, 2020

  

  The series of ticketed shows, which began in early June and ran for four months — as allowed by a temporary use permit for the agriculturally zoned property — may now continue through Aug. 5, 2021.

• Mural to honor Virginia Hamilton

  By Megan BachmanNovember 13, 2020

  

  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.

• Chappelle shows granted extension

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 12, 2020

  

  In a vote of 3–1, the Miami Township Board of Zoning Appeals on Wednesday evening , Nov. 11, approved a request to extend the timetable for performances hosted by Yellow Springs-based comedian Dave Chappelle at a rural property just north of the village.

• The 2020-21 Guide to Yellow Springs: downtown, then and now

  By Megan BachmanNovember 9, 2020

  

  This year’s Guide to Yellow Springs examines the village’s downtown, a reflection of our authentic, offbeat, casual and creative counterculture values.

• Uncertain fate for Antioch Review

  By Audrey HackettOctober 29, 2020

  

  The current and future status of the Review, which has a national and international reputation for literary excellence, is unclear to the magazine’s longtime editor — furloughed since April — and longtime production staff.

• Who’s the News?, pt. IV: the printer

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  In the fourth installment of the “Who’s the News?” series, we go even further behind the scenes to introduce to you the men and the machines who bring the News to life. Meet the printer.