From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 106

• YS Schools— Board OKs hybrid transition plan

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 28, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs school district leaders are making plans for students to return to in-person classes, but exactly when that will be is uncertain.

• Village Council— Deficit budget moves ahead

  By Megan BachmanDecember 27, 2020

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs plans to spend about a million dollars more than it takes in next year. As a result, general fund reserves are set to drop to their lowest level in recent years.

• Spirits of Christmas Past

  By YS News StaffDecember 26, 2020

  

  In the spirit of the holidays, the Yellow Springs News did a deep dive into the News archives and unearthed a bevy of fun holiday photos from past decades.

• 30 years of letters to Santa

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 24, 2020

  

  For nearly all of the last three decades, former villager Peggy Barker has compiled these letters as Santa’s assistant. She said she took up the job in 1989 when she found herself with some extra time on her hands.

• The Legendary Lights at Clifton Mill get second place in national contest

  By Reilly DixonDecember 23, 2020

  

  For the third year in a row, the Legendary Lights at the Historic Clifton Mill were among the most impressive in the country, according to the results of a national competition. Clifton Mill won second place in the best public holiday lights category in USA Today’s annual “10Best” competition.

• Caring for COVID’s sickest patients

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 22, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs resident Chasilee Crawford is an ICU, or intensive care unit, nurse at Springfield Regional Medical Center. She volunteered to work in the hospital’s designated COVID-19 specific ICU when it was formed last March, and has been caring for patients who are severely ill with the disease ever since.

• Health Commissioner Melissa Howell— A closer look at area surge

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Ohio saw a massive bump in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Dec. 8. That day, 25,721 new cases were reported, bringing the statewide case total well over the half-million mark since the pandemic’s start.

• Chappelle to buy former fire station in Yellow Springs for comedy club

  By Megan BachmanDecember 21, 2020

  

  Nationally known comedian and local resident Dave Chappelle is purchasing the former Miami Township fire station with plans to open a comedy club in Yellow Springs.

• Solar ‘canopy’ eyed for parking lot

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Initial plans call for a solar canopy at the John Bryan Community Center. The covered pavilion would feature a solar roof with at least a 200-kilowatt capacity, with vehicle parking and event space underneath.

• Outside investigation complete— Officer violated no policies

  By Megan BachmanDecember 20, 2020

  

  At issue was whether YSPD Officer Dave Meister violated Village policy and state law by allegedly telling a citizen that a fellow officer, Paige Burge, referred to some attendees of the weekly Black Lives Matter rallies as an “angry mob.”