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• 50 years on: Earth Day in Yellow Springs

  By Megan BachmanApril 22, 2020

  

  The News has invited some of our own prominent local environmentalists to reflect on the 50-year anniversary of Earth Day.

• Floral gifts

  By YS News Staff

  

  Daria Mabra of Glen Garden Gifts distributed several dozen flowers in vases, buckets and jars around downtown Friday afternoon, April 2.

• Village Council meetings go virtual

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Three people were personally present in Council chambers on Monday, April 6, for Yellow Springs Village Council’s first full meeting since in-person gatherings were limited during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Delays, confusion in primary

  By Carol SimmonsApril 20, 2020

  

  As the deadline for voting in Ohio’s 2020 primary election nears, Greene County voters are reporting worrisome waits in receiving their requested absentee ballots as well as confusion around sometimes contradictory instructions.

• Furloughs, pay cuts at Antioch

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Antioch College has enacted sweeping furloughs, hour reductions and pay cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• Help for local tenants, landlords

  By Megan BachmanApril 16, 2020

  

  Stepping in to assist is a new local volunteer committee organized around housing issues. Their goal? That no one loses their home because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Local farmers eye uncertainty

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2020

  

  Life and growth are happening on local farms against the backdrop of massive shutdown and uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Mills Lawn elementary school principal to leave district

  By Carol SimmonsApril 10, 2020

  

  Matt Housh, principal of Mills Lawn elementary school for the past decade, announced in a letter to school families Tuesday, April 7, that he has accepted a position with Huber Heights City Schools and will be leaving the Yellow Springs district at the end of the academic year.

• The world of COVID-19 — Seniors learn to adapt

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  How are older Yellow Springers faring in this new isolation? To find out, the News spoke to about a dozen villagers, most in their 80s or older.

• Keeping the faith amid crisis

  By Carol SimmonsApril 9, 2020

  

  Local faith groups have not held face-to-face services for several weeks now, adopting alternative ways to worship and come together.