From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 108

• Yellow Springs Instruments— Model 23A’s revolutionary legacy

  By Reilly DixonAugust 27, 2021

  

  Alan Brunsman, who worked for the vast majority of his career at YSI, sat down with the News recently to tell the long and complicated story of the groundbreaking Model 23A.

• New beginnings for YS schools

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 26, 2021

  

  The first day of classes for Yellow Springs Schools was Monday, Aug. 23. And while the start of a new academic year is typically cause for heightened emotion — whether excitement or dread — this new start contains more feeling than typical years past.

• Greene County jail tax is back on ballot

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 25, 2021

  

  After voters rejected a proposed sales tax increase to build a new jail in 2020, Greene County Commissioners are asking them to approve a sales tax for a slightly smaller jail this fall.

• Open house for Glen Cottages

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 24, 2021

  

  In the face of unprecedented COVID-19 construction challenges and obstacles, Glen Cottages, an affordable housing development located at 1133 Xenia Ave., will soon be ready for move-in.

• A fond farewell to Coach Jimmy

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 23, 2021

  

  Summer after summer after summer, villagers have seen him out on the T-ball diamond at Gaunt Park every Friday night: baseball hat perched on his head, hair tied back in a ponytail, a big grin spreading across his face, surrounded by laughing, shouting kids.

• Poverty the focus of local simulation

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 21, 2021

  

  On Wednesday, June 30, 28 villagers pondered these and other dilemmas facing fictional characters in the Virtual Cost of Poverty Experience, a 90-minute poverty simulation that is designed to help people better understand the effects of poverty.

• Candidates file for fall races

  By Megan BachmanAugust 20, 2021

  

  More candidates may be vying for public office this fall than in recent years. Last week, 20 people seeking local office filed petitions with the Greene County Board of Elections ahead of the Aug. 4 deadline.

• COVID-19 Update — August 5, 2021

  By YS News StaffAugust 19, 2021

  

  COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the state and county due to the highly contagious Delta variant. Ohio’s COVID-19 per capita case incidence rate rose to 77.4 cases per 100,000 for the two weeks ending July 29, up from 48.5 for the two weeks prior.

• Tin Can Economy — A space in the school for the swifts

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Walk over to the Union School House on a clear late summer evening and you’ll see them. Swooping and darting through the dusk, conducting aerial dramas against the backdrop of a setting sun: chimney swifts. Hundreds of them.

• Continued coverage— Plea deal in stabbing death

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A Yellow Springs native accused in the stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office.