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• Dayton ‘Media and Democracy’ event — Journalists oppose Cox Media sale

  By Megan BachmanAugust 8, 2019

  

  Private equity firms now own more than one-third of major news outlets in the U.S. Working journalists have declined by half in a decade. And half of all Americans don’t get news from the community in which they live. 

• News reporter Lauren Heaton dies

  By YS News StaffAugust 1, 2019

  

  Lifetime villager and longtime Yellow Springs News reporter Lauren Heaton died on Sunday morning, July 28, 2019.

• First Lines — The world of objects

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  What do objects want? This month’s poem by Reilly Dixon enters the world of objects.

• Back to the land, 40 years on

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The year was 1976. Fifty people pitched in $1,200 each to purchase a former ranch in southwestern New Mexico. In the language of the age, they sought to go “back to the land.”

• ‘Media and Democracy’ event focuses on impact of Cox media sale

  By Megan BachmanJuly 26, 2019

  

  How will the proposed sale of Cox media to a private equity firm affect news coverage in the Dayton area? A panel of experts will explore that question next week at an event in downtown Dayton.

• Review— YSTC debuts compelling ‘Othello’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 25, 2019

  

  For those who don’t know, “Othello” concerns the secret machinations of the evil Iago against the titular Othello, “the Moor,” one of the few Shakespeare characters written as a person of color. This year’s Summer Shakespeare features a smaller cast and a strong group of leads.

• Little Art shows ‘Strangelove’

  By Guest Contributor

  

  An unhinged general with his finger on the button, ordering a nuclear strike on Eastern Europe? In 2019?

• ‘Interrupted Motherhood’— The juggling act of single motherhood

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 18, 2019

  

  For playwright and actor Felicia Chappelle, art is therapeutic — whether it’s being received or created.

• Steve Bognar receives a ‘Welcome to the Academy’

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The news came by email. Subject line: “Welcome to the Academy.” For a moment villager Steve Bognar was stumped. “The Academy? The Taekwondo Academy in Fairborn?” he joked in an interview at his Yellow Springs home this week.

• First Lines — Of memory, hiding and identity

  By Audrey HackettJuly 17, 2019

  

  What happens to those who came before us also happens to us. In a poem by villager Maxine Skuba, world history and personal history touch hands.