Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.
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Story Chain’s newest connections
Launched in 2014 by village resident Jonathan Platt, Story Chain’s mission is to give inmates in area correctional facilities the opportunity to read children’s books aloud to their own kids — albeit from some distance, and from behind bars.
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School leaders urge against budget cap
The budget bill — passed by the Ohio House in April — will, if passed by the Senate as written, affect Ohio’s public school districts by eschewing the Fair School Funding Act, which aims to address the state’s overwhelming reliance on local property taxes to fund public schools.
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Antioch College to host presentation from Narwhal Divers
Based in San Francisco, Narwhal Divers creates access and safer spaces for trans and queer people interested in scuba diving.
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YS Community Foundation grants funds to autism resource center
The Yellow Springs Community Foundation has recently granted funds for a new outing van to Roads to Recovery, an autism resource center nonprofit making avenues to support and resources for those with autism more accessible.
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MVECA to merge with Miami Valley Communications Council
In the next two months, the Miami Valley Educational Computer Association, or MVECA, is set to merge with the Miami Valley Communications Council, a municipal communications and IT organization from Centerville.
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Letter carriers to host food drive
The National Association of Letter Carriers will host the annual Stamp Out Hunger® national food drive Saturday, May 10. During their regular routes that day, letter carriers will collect nonperishable food donations left near residents’ mailboxes.
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Tuvergen Band ‘gallops’ to the Foundry Theater
The band’s name holds special significance, connecting its trio of members — Tamir Hargana, Naizal Hargana and Brent Roman — to their music’s roots in Mongolian culture, for which horses are central figures in history, mythology and, naturally, its folk music.
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‘Last Warmth’ — A love letter to School Forest
This month, a new documentary — helmed by and starring School Foresters themselves — debuts, giving local residents a behind-the-scenes look at the School Forest Club’s work tending the forest from seedling to tree, and every stage in between.
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Miami Township Trustees dispute Tecumseh Land Trust funding
During an often fraught two-hour special meeting Tuesday, April 29 — which was attended by about two dozen local residents — the Miami Township Trustees discussed at length both the possibility and the fiscal feasibility of funding conservation easements for local farmland preservation nonprofit Tecumseh Land Trust.
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Public infrastructure on ballot in May 6 election
If passed, Issue 2 would amend the Ohio Constitution to allow the state to issue bonds or other obligations to finance or assist in public infrastructure projects at the local level — including here in Yellow Springs.
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