From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 48

• Watch tower: Antioch College’s decommissioned smokestack comes down

  By Reilly DixonOctober 20, 2022

  

  The 125-foot-tall smokestack, the most visible part of the decommissioned Antioch College power plant, was demolished Monday, Oct. 10, as part of a $4.25 million grant, the Campaign to Secure the Future of Glen Helen.

• COVID Update | Oct. 20, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  Ohio surpassed 40,000 COVID-19-related deaths — with 40,037, as of Oct. 13 — since the start of the pandemic.

• Local actors star in ‘Baskerville’

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Villagers and actors Ellen Ballerene, Reilly Dixon and Robb Willoughby will star in Beavercreek Community Theatre’s production of “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” Fridays–Sundays, Oct. 21–23 and 28–30.

• YS Development Corporation fetes ‘Action in Evaluation’

  By Cheryl DurgansOctober 19, 2022

  

  The motion set forth and approved by members of The Yellow Springs Development Corporation, or YSDC, on Aug. 4 — for a sum of $1 — to contract with ARIA Group under the helm of Jay Rothman to “pilot a proposed collaborative visioning and planning methodology and to assess the methodology’s potential for the greater community.”

• Antioch School celebrates a century

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Last year, The Antioch School — oft-billed as the nation’s “oldest democratic school” — turned 100 years old. The school is hosting a three-day celebratory reunion from Thursday, Oct. 20 through Saturday, Oct. 22, which will include music, workshops, art projects, skits, the long-loved Harvest Supper Potluck — and plenty of memories.

• Fair weather fare

  By YS News StaffOctober 13, 2022

  

  The return of Street Fair on Saturday, Oct. 8, also saw the return of crowds to downtown streets. Despite temperatures in the 30s for much of the morning, visitors came out to peruse seller wares and enjoy food and music.

• Springfield man found dead after Street Fair

  By YS News Staff

  

  A 34-year-old Springfield man was pronounced dead on Saturday night, Oct. 8, after being found unresponsive on Corry Street following Street Fair.

• COVID Update | Oct. 13, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  Greene County was one of 63 in Ohio designated as low. Twenty-five counties are at a “medium” level, and for the first time in several months, none are “high.”

• School board talks sex education

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 12, 2022

  

  The YS Board of Education discussed health and sex education in the schools during a work session on Thursday, Sept. 19. Discussion focused on the schools’ current curricula in those areas, as well as future steps the schools may take.

• Emergent Verse | LIVE at the Epic!

  By Ed Davis

  

  What if you could sit outside on a fall evening, close your eyes and savor poetry and poetic prose composed and performed by talented pairs of (mostly) villagers? Well, thanks to the ambitious vision of Gail Lichtenfels, owner/operator of Epic Book Shop, 232 Xenia Ave., you can.