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

• Anna “Nancy” Semmel

  By YS News StaffSeptember 19, 2019

  

  Anna “Nancy” Semmel, 92, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 18, 2019.

• Robert Edward Stokes

  By YS News Staff

  

  Robert Edward Stokes, age 85, of Dayton, Ohio, departed this life while at home on Sept. 10, 2019.

• Organizing to end racism— The history of H.U.M.A.N.

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Started by villagers and Antioch College professors Jim Dunn and Bill Chappelle in the late 1970s, members of H.U.M.A.N. organized, marched, protested and educated in order to fight institutionalized racism and sexism, locally and nationally.

• World House Choir performs— ‘Earth Mass’ reprised, with new works

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Performances are slated for Sept. 18 and 21 in the Foundry Theater at Antioch College; the choir will also perform on Sept. 19 and 22 in Dayton and Springfield (see sidebar on page 10 for full details).

• Village Council resolves residential solar cap issue

  By Megan Bachman

  

  An unlimited number of villagers can now install solar panels on their residences and connect them to the grid after Council passed legislation at its regular meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 3, eliminating a cap on residential solar generation.

• Village to test traffic pattern

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Short Street and a section of South Walnut Street will be turned into one-way streets for a period of three weeks in October and November to test out a new traffic flow in the area.

• Gun pulled at playground

  By YS News Staff

  

  According to the Yellow Springs Police Department, at 7:49 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8, a caller told police that a man pulled a gun and aimed it at a small dog at the Mills Lawn Elementary School playground.

• YS man still in ICE custody

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 16, 2019

  

  Picked up and detained Aug. 28 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents, villager Miguel Espinosa remains in custody more than two weeks later, awaiting a bond hearing date that had yet to be scheduled at press time.

• September 12, 2019 Bulldog Sports Roundup

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 12, 2019

  

  September 12, 2019 Bulldog Sports Roundup

• Helen Hammond

  By YS News Staff

  

  Helen (Pitman) Hammond passed peacefully at Friends Care Community in Yellow Springs on Sept. 3, 2019, just after turning 92 years old.