From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 161

• From the Archives: The winter the tower exploded

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2020

  

  On Sunday, Jan. 31, 1977, the water tower at Gaunt Park — there was only one then — had blown a seam and released a million gallons of water into the park.

• Village Council— Energy credit sale considered

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 6, 2020

  

  For every one-megawatt hour of green energy the Village of Yellow Springs purchases, it receives one Renewable Energy Certificate, or REC. And with a portfolio that is 83% renewables, on the open market, the Village’s RECs could yield about $100,000 per year.

• 10-Minute Play Festival honors villager

  By YS News Staff

  

  The festival will be Friday–Saturday, Feb. 7–8, at 8 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church. Tickets will be available at the door and cost $12 or $10 with a non-perishable food item.

• Learning cheer, loud and proud

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 4, 2020

  

  Members of the Yellow Springs High School cheerleading team and their coaches spent Sunday afternoon, Jan. 26, in Mills Lawn gym, leading a  mini-camp for kindergarten through sixth graders in the basics of cheering.

• In rural areas, a ‘quiet jail boom’

  By Audrey HackettJanuary 31, 2020

  

  In debates over jail expansion, the big picture is often the hidden aspect of the conversation. New research from Vera Institute of Justice sheds light on a “quiet jail boom” happening in more rural areas of the U.S.

• New Antioch School YG teacher— Drawing on music, outdoors

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 30, 2020

  

  With the first half of the academic year under her belt, Elaina Vimmerstedt, the Antioch School’s new Younger Group teacher delights in the daily life of the 98-year-old independent elementary school off Corry Street.

• Village Council— Could sewer woes limit growth?

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Strong storms rolled into Yellow Springs on April 3, 2018, dumping close to three inches of rain on the village in short order. What happened next was the source of an Ohio EPA rebuke and is now a subject of concern for Village Council as it considers spurring new development in town.

• Yellow Springs Schools— Board expects facilities levy in 2021

  By Carol Simmons

  

  District leaders are considering how best to move forward to address the identified problems in the local school buildings

• Rooster dispute could spur ban

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Planning Commission began considering a villagewide rooster ban at its Jan. 14 meeting.

• Council debates housing goals

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 23, 2020

  

  In her first Village Council meeting on Jan. 6, new Council Member Laura Curliss questioned the Village’s stated goals related to housing.