From The Print Last Week Section :: Page 81

• COVID Update | Aug. 25, 2022

  By YS News StaffAugust 25, 2022

  

  For the seventh week in a row, Greene County is listed as having a “high” community level for COVID-19 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, according to its most recent weekly update, Thursday, Aug. 18.

• The Briar Patch | Love thy neighbor

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 24, 2022

  

  “I guess I took it for granted that both Richardsons would always be around. They greeted me when I arrived home for the first time wearing that yellow outfit.”

• Miami Township Trustees propose zoning code changes

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The request from the Zoning Commission concerns the removal of sections 18.51 and 18.52 from the Zoning Resolution. The sections in question, which can be read in full at bit.ly/3zW53Zn, concern temporary structures and property uses.

• My Name Is Iden | The wisdom of the weeds

  By Iden CrockettAugust 21, 2022

  

  “Humans are strange. Is there a creature that craves novelty more than a human? Or one more fearful of change? Is there another animal as fundamentally paradoxical as a human?”

• Astrology resurgence— Aquarius, herbalism and Pluto

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 20, 2022

  

  Yellow Springs has always been a community that welcomes different faiths, philosophies and spiritual centering, and has usually been more accepting of alternative beliefs. This bears out when it comes to astrology.

• Down to Earth | Drawing pleasure in gardening

  By YS News Staff

  

  “He was a great painter, Monet, but he actually thought of himself as a gardener first and a painter second. Late in life, eyes failing and tired of traveling, he asked his village for permission to divert a small river onto his land.”

• MTFR employs app to help lost hikers

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 19, 2022

  

  The what3words app will be used by MTFR staff to locate lost hikers in John Bryan and Glen Helen. When a person becomes lost, rather than relying on descriptions of surroundings to alert rescue personnel to their location, they can use the app to pinpoint their location via GPS coordinates.

• ‘Silverberg Business’ scouts strange planes

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 18, 2022

  

  Wexler’s fiction has, in the past, been described — including a few times in this publication — as defying genre. “The Silverberg Business,” too, is ineffable in its way; in a recent interview with the News, Wexler described the book as “a Western…ish.”

• COVID Update | Aug. 18, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  Greene County is among 55 other counties in the state with a high designation amid the spread of the highly contagious Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

• 2022 Special Primary Election Results

  By YS News StaffAugust 15, 2022

  

  Preliminary results of the Tuesday, Aug. 2, special primary election are now available. The election was scheduled for August following the initial May primary due to ongoing legal disputes over the redrawing of Ohio district voting maps.