From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 7

• School board talks ongoing initiatives, later erupts

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 26, 2024

  

  Though the bulk of the school board’s most recent regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 12, was business as usual, the meeting’s last half hour was a return to the heightened tensions that have marked several of the board’s public interactions over the last few months.

• News from the Past: December 2024

  By Don HollisterDecember 25, 2024

  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent installment of his News from the Past column.

• Local nonprofit YS Emergency Assistance provides financial help ‘right now’

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 24, 2024

  

  The longtime local nonprofit YS Emergency Assistance, or YSEA — a charitable group previously known as STARFISH — works to help folks living in Yellow Springs with one-time gifts of financial assistance.

• Martin Luther King Day plans in Yellow Springs announced

  By YS News StaffDecember 22, 2024

  

  The annual celebration will take place Monday, Jan. 20, with the theme “Stepping Up for Freedom 365.”

• News from the Past: November 2024

  By Don HollisterDecember 20, 2024

  

  Contributing writer Don Hollister dove into the YS News archives to uncover past articles and more in his most recent installment of his News from the Past column.

• The Patterdale Hall Diaries | A recipe for de-stressing

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “I’ve been writing this diary for two years now. Putting my thoughts down has been enjoyable, and documenting this time of my life is kind of fun. I’m slowing down.”

• Local chess club makes moves

  By YS News StaffDecember 19, 2024

  

  Over the last few years, the Fairborn Scholastic Chess Club’s founder, Tony Mumford, has expanded its reach to village youth, and he now operates the Yellow Springs Chess Club, introducing a whole new generation to the love of the game.

• Annual Yellow Springs Kwanzaa celebration set

  By YS News StaffDecember 18, 2024

  

  The annual community Kwanzaa celebration will be Saturday, Dec. 28, beginning at 6 p.m., in the John Bryan Community Center gymnasium.

• Story Chain makes connections through voice

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 17, 2024

  

  For a decade, local nonprofit Story Chain has worked to connect loved ones who can’t physically be together through the power of the voice. Since its founding, the Yellow Springs-based nonprofit has run successful programs at Dayton Correctional Institution, and in Greene, Montgomery and Clark County jails.

• Village Planning Commission recommends repealing Gateway Overlay District

  By Reilly DixonDecember 16, 2024

  

  At the most recent Planning Commission meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 10, the group revisited — and ultimately recommended to repeal — an anomalous and oft-under-referenced section of the Yellow Springs zoning code: the Gateway Overlay District.