Beyond Yellow Springs Section :: Page 7

• Local death penalty opponents decry Ohio’s plans to resume executions

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 21, 2017

  

  State prison officials plan to put convicted killer Ronald Phillips to death Wednesday, July 26, more than three years after a controversial and apparently painful execution led to a moratorium on capital punishment in Ohio.

• Local youth qualifies for National Junior Olympics Track and Field Championship

  By Aaron Maurice SaariJuly 14, 2017

  

  What do you do if in preschool you were winning all the footraces by running backwards while everyone else sprinted?

• Peace center focus on bomb history

  By Aaron Maurice SaariJuly 13, 2017

  

  It was a common sight in post-war Japan: a physically disfigured person, or maybe someone with an obvious genetic anomaly, getting yanked off the street by a doctor or scientist.

• Attorney General’s office seeks numbers from scam “IRS phone calls

  By YS News StaffJune 22, 2017

  

  The Yellow Springs Police Department has issued a warning about a spate of reported scam “IRS” phone calls.

• Communities rethink how to police

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 27, 2017

  

  Three examples of communities rethinking policing may provide an opportunity for villagers to consider and discuss different options for how “people and police” can engage with each other.

• Walking across America, stopping in Yellow Springs

  By Suzanne SzempruchApril 20, 2017

  

  Abby Bongaarts, 24, and Danny Finnegan, 23, stopped in Yellow Springs this week as part of their walk across the USA.

• Yellow Springs artists visit Greek refugee camp

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Many of us see the photos and hear stories of the current refugee crisis and feel overwhelmed. What can one person do? A lot, according to local artists Beth Holyoke and Kaethi Seidl.

• Plans to expand mining in area cause concern

  By Audrey HackettApril 13, 2017

  

  A recent proposal by Enon Sand & Gravel to significantly expand mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs, has many area residents deeply concerned.

• Citizens Against Mining to hold ice cream social

  By Audrey HackettApril 6, 2017

  

  Citizens Against Mining is holding an ice cream social and sign-making party at Young’s Dairy this Sunday, April 9, from 1 to 3 p.m. The group opposes the expansion of mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs.

• Proposed mining modifications raise concern

  By Audrey HackettMarch 23, 2017

  

  Some local residents are concerned about proposed modifications to gravel pits just north of Yellow Springs in Mad River Township. A public meeting on the issue will be held Monday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Greenon High School in Springfield.