From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 39

• Yellow Springs nonprofit Agraria announces furloughs, hiatus

  By YS News StaffFebruary 23, 2023

  Yellow Springs nonprofit and educational farm Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice has announced a hiatus of its operations and programs effective Thursday, Feb. 16., and all employees — about 30 — have been put on a three-month furlough.

• Building Community | Meet your mayor

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 22, 2023

  

  That Mayor Pam Conine sees the village as one giant classroom should come as little surprise, considering that she was an educator for over four decades.

• School board considers additional facilities options

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 20, 2023

  

  At the school board’s regular meeting, held Thursday, Feb. 9, architect Mike Ruetschle presented a preliminary fact sheet briefly detailing eight potential facilities plans for both the school board and community members to consider as the next facilities listening session approaches on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

• My Name Is Iden | How to say I love you

  By Iden CrockettFebruary 17, 2023

  

  “Love is the center point from which we chart all other human emotion. We owe it to each other, and to ourselves, to recapture and appreciate anew the great gift it is to be able to give and receive love.”

• Building Community | Sharing a lifetime of soaring

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  During a recent interview with the News, village residents and co-founders of The Jael Group, or TJG, Steven and Jalyn Roe, often mentioned a spiritual concept related to “the way”: an opening, path, direction, even a process that at times means finding “a way out of no way.”

• Miami Township Board of Trustees | Monday, Feb. 6 Meeting

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Chief Colin Altman reported that Miami Township Fire-Rescue has responded to 35 EMS calls and eight fire calls since the last regular meeting of the trustees.

• ‘Miller Knew’ | Geisel pens ‘Appalachian noir’ novel

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 15, 2023

  

  Villager Scott Geisel’s newest book, “Miller Knew,” published at the end of 2022, takes a turn outside of the village, however, heading due east into the hills of Appalachian Virginia.

• Unsolicited Opinions | ‘The fierce urgency of now’

  By Jessica ThomasFebruary 13, 2023

  

  “How quickly can we reimagine what accountability looks like? How many more hashtags do we need before a true reckoning happens?”

• Anchoring the Coretta Scott King Center in Black history

  By Cheryl DurgansFebruary 9, 2023

  

  This month, the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom, or CSKC, will host programming in honor of Black History Month, including the A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Lecture on Feb. 24, 6–8:30 p.m.

• Facilities listening sessions begin

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 7, 2023

  

  The purpose of the event was to present to community members potential plans for upgrading the district’s schools that have already been discussed over the last several months by the Facilities Committee — as well as plans that have not yet been discussed — and listen to community feedback on those plans.