Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.

• Stay active, connected in quarantine

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 30, 2020

  

  How can individuals stay active, physically, mentally and socially, and stay connected when it’s so important to remain physically distant from others?

• Children’s Center closes

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 27, 2020

  

  The Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center administration has decided to close the local day care center temporarily, rather than continue operation as a designated “pandemic child care” facility.

• YS Schools— Learning continues despite closure

  By Carol Simmons

  

  This week would have been spring break for Yellow Springs schools, if they — and all other kindergarten through 12th grade institutions in the state — had not closed a week earlier, as ordered by Gov. Mike DeWine in response to the worldwide novel coronavirus outbreak.

• Businesses adapt, ‘tough it out’

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  As part of Gov. Mike DeWine’s March 22 order that Ohioans must stay home, all businesses deemed nonessential were instructed to shut their doors.

• Feeding the village amid crisis

  By Megan BachmanMarch 26, 2020

  

  In the wake of business closures across the state to stem the spread of COVID-19, many in the village and township have lost their incomes. And, as in many other communities, hunger here is rising.

• Our full-time staff— Who’s the News?

  By YS News Staff

  

  Here we introduce you to the full-time staff of the paper.

• Schools adjust to closure

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 25, 2020

  

  DeWine announced a three-week shutdown Thursday afternoon, March 12, with the closure to begin at the end of the school day Monday, March 16, and students set to return to class Monday, April 6.

• Local leaders detail responses

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Village leaders struck a tone of concern and hopefulness in the face of the coronavirus outbreak as they updated the community on their responses to the crisis at a “virtual town hall” on Monday, March 16.

• COVID-19 medical basics

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  First emerging in China in December, coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, has now spread worldwide.

• Ohio voting delayed

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  In a series of rapid developments that took place hours before the Ohio presidential primary, in-person voting in the state was off, then on, then off again.