From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 153

• Planning Commission— Costly repairs ahead for YS?

  By Audrey HackettNovember 16, 2020

  

  Burns described a series of specific stormwater issues related to aging infrastructure — which in some parts of town date back to the late 1800s, he said — certain kinds of lot designs, more intense storms than previously and other factors.

• Mural to honor Virginia Hamilton

  By Megan BachmanNovember 13, 2020

  

  Local artist Pierre Nagley recently started painting a new mural honoring the life and works of famed local author Virginia Hamilton. The mural, located on the wall of the Yellow Springs News building, is being spearheaded by Help Us Make a Nation, or H.U.M.A.N., a recently revived local human rights organization founded here in the ’70s.

• Community Solutions to host restorative conference

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2020

  

  This year’s conference, the organization’s 66th, is titled “Pathways to Regeneration: Restoration, Resiliency and Reciprocity,” with a particular focus on food growing and preservation. It will be conducted online this weekend, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8.

• COVID-19 update— ‘There is no place to hide’ in Ohio

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  October brought a whirlwind of bad news about COVID-19 spread in Ohio. New cases soared statewide, hospitalizations increased and more counties than ever flipped to “red” on the state’s COVID-19 heat map.

• Indigenous water protector’s panel— A path to ‘re-indigenizing’ Antioch

  By Megan BachmanNovember 10, 2020

  

  “We are on stolen land and we need to recognize that,” Jennifer Knickerbocker said to solemn applause at the start of a panel discussion last week during Antioch College’s Earth Week.

• A path to progress on race?

  By Audrey HackettNovember 9, 2020

  

  This is fourth in a series on the impacts of racism in Yellow Springs and local anti-racist efforts and approaches.

• News from the Past

  By YS News StaffNovember 7, 2020

  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister compiles some of the more compelling headlines that occurred in past Septembers and Octobers in last week’s “News from the Past” column.

• Village of YS— Free Wi-Fi downtown coming

  By Megan BachmanNovember 6, 2020

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs is providing free Wi-Fi access downtown for a year in a pilot project that could eventually lead to community-owned broadband internet available throughout town.

• 2020 Election preliminary results— Trump takes Ohio, Village levy passes

  By YS News StaffNovember 4, 2020

  

  According to unofficial results, Trump won Ohio, and its 18 electoral votes, by a margin of 53% to 45%.

• The Briar Patch— Did we ask permission?

  By YS News StaffNovember 2, 2020

  

  Community development — in all its forms — is an imperative question for the governance of our village.