From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 130

• Village to buy land for bike path

  By Megan BachmanDecember 4, 2020

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is moving forward with plans to purchase three acres of land at Yellow Springs High School for a bike trail to Agraria, Community Solutions’ farm west of the village.

• ‘Caesar’s Redemption’— Local history, authentically imagined

  By Audrey HackettDecember 3, 2020

  

  Local playwright Kane Stratton is debuting an eight-minute film vignette drawn from a longer script that explores the life of a Black man named Caesar, a “maroon” among the Shawnee people of southwestern Ohio in the 1770s and beyond.

• Yellow Springs School board— Facilities back at forefront

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 2, 2020

  

  Administrators’ recent focus on pandemic-related school closures, and the accompanying transition to online instruction, drastically slowed the facilities conversation, but didn’t sideline it completely.

• News from the Past

  By YS News StaffDecember 1, 2020

  

  In last week’s “News from the Past” column, contributing writer Don Hollister did another dive into the YS News archives and compiled some of the more compelling headlines that occurred in past Novembers.

• H&H Studios is here for hair and body

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 30, 2020

  

  Holihan and Quigley held the grand opening for their new hair salon and massage parlor, H&H Studios — so named for “Heidi” and “Holihan” — on Oct. 24.

• Local COVID-19 response— Village steps up enforcement

  By Megan BachmanNovember 29, 2020

  

  As the third wave of the coronavirus rages through the state and county, the Village of Yellow Springs is cracking down on behaviors that could further spread COVID-19 in town.

• Planning Commission— New ‘do not plant’ list being considered

  By Audrey HackettNovember 28, 2020

  

  Proposed changes to the Village’s weeds ordinance are taking aim at dozens of “noxious weeds” and invasive plant species currently wreaking havoc in Ohio.

• Protest held outside Gov. DeWine home

  By Reilly DixonNovember 27, 2020

  

  On Friday, Nov. 20, nearly 200 demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Mike DeWine’s home in Cedarville Township to protest his and the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19-related mandates, including the statewide mask order and the 10 p.m. curfew.

• COVID-19 contact tracing— More cases, more contacts

  By Audrey HackettNovember 25, 2020

  

  The local health department’s contact tracing team now includes nine people, including employees from the Ohio Department of Health, part of the state’s scaled-up contact tracing workforce.

• Little Thunders— Unsettling Truthsgiving

  By YS News Staff

  

  This November 26, as you sit down to your meal, I have a message for the young people because they will understand better than anyone else: There is no need to shy away from the truth.