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• YS food relief effort: An update

  By YS News StaffApril 9, 2020

  

  A brief updated provided by Melissa Heston, outreach manager for the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, who is focusing on local food relief efforts during the coronavirus crisis.

• Making masks— Villagers stitch to save lives

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Locally, sewing-machine-wielding villagers have beaten the CDC to the proverbial punch, having already mobilized a large effort to provide face masks for those in the community and surrounding areas who work daily in the village’s public eye.

• Ohio moves to mail-in voting

  By Audrey HackettApril 6, 2020

  

  Ohio primary voters have just over three weeks left to vote — by mail — in the extended primary election.

• Fear, hope, anxiety, gratitude— Villagers talk sheltering in place

  By Lauren ShowsApril 5, 2020

  

  As Ohio made its way through the second week of the governor’s mandate that all Ohioans “stay at home,” the News reached out to several villagers to find out how they’re navigating their lives under the order.

• Meeting need, block by block

  By Megan Bachman

  

  In the latest effort to identify — and meet — local needs during the coronavirus crisis, local leaders are empowering 31 neighborhood block contacts throughout the village.

• Schools closed through May 1

  By Carol SimmonsApril 4, 2020

  

  Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday, March 30, that he has ordered the continued closure of all kindergarten through 12th-grade schools until at least May 1.

• New message for visitors: stay home

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Earlier this week, the Village of Yellow Springs erected three electronic signs with public messaging at the gateways to town in an attempt to inform, and also deter visitors during the statewide “stay-at-home” order.

  After a throng of tourists visited the prior week, some flaunting social distancing rules, the Village, Glen Helen and the Chamber are discouraging visitors.

• Ohio hospitals prepare for surge

  By Audrey HackettApril 2, 2020

  

  Hospitals have been working for months to prepare for the spread of COVID-19 to Ohio, but efforts have intensified over the past couple of weeks.

• Stay active, connected in quarantine

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 31, 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.