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• State redistricting plans unconstitutional

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 29, 2022

  

  Ohio Democrats and state chapters of the NAACP, ACLU and League of Women Voters, among other groups and voting rights advocates, are hailing a pair of rulings by the Ohio Supreme Court last week that found the state’s recent redistricting efforts to be unconstitutional.

• Yellow Springs Development Corporation ends the year by looking ahead

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 23, 2021

  

  At its last monthly meeting of the year, conducted online Tuesday, Dec. 7, the Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, spent time discussing possible projects and areas of focus for 2022.

• COVID-19 Update — December 9, 2021

  By YS News StaffDecember 9, 2021

  

  Greene County’s total of new cases reported for the week of Sunday, Nov. 28, through Saturday, Dec. 4, rose significantly, however, from the week before, with a total of 531 new cases, compared to the previous week’s total of 308.

• YSHS, McKinney students to perform ‘The Stinky Cheese Man’

  By Lauren Shows

  

  “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” will be performed by students from McKinney Middle School and YS High School on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10–12, at Clifton Opera House.

• Village elders reflect on the Black experience, Pt. I

  By Cheryl DurgansNovember 29, 2021

  

  Longtime villagers Frances Smith and Geneva Brisbane reflected on their experiences with racism and segregation during the “Elders Speak” virtual event held last month. The event was sponsored by The 365 Project.

• Neighbors split on 1,500-acre Kingwood Solar field project

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 27, 2021

  

  An estimated 300 people crowded into the Expo Center at the Greene County Fairgrounds on Monday evening, Nov. 15, for a public hearing on the proposed 1,500-acre Kingwood Solar field project.

• Budget deficit forecasted for Village Schools

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 26, 2021

  

  After finishing the last two fiscal years with revenues higher than expenditures, Yellow Springs school leaders anticipate a return to deficit spending this fiscal year (FY), which ends June 30, 2022, according to the district’s latest five-year financial forecast.

• Village to buy Lawson Place apartments

  By Jessica ThomasNovember 23, 2021

  

  In their regular Nov. 15 meeting, held virtually via Zoom, Village Council approved two measures allowing Village Manager Josué Salmerón to purchase an apartment building located at 10 Lawson Place.

• Five Clifton Village Council seats unfilled

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 20, 2021

  

  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.

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

  By Reilly DixonNovember 19, 2021

  

  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.