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• Noncitizen voting under fire

  By Megan BachmanAugust 13, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs’ recent charter change allowing noncitizens to vote on local matters came under fire last week from the state’s chief election official.

• Independent review clears YSPD chief

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Yellow Springs Police Chief Brian Carlson was cleared of wrongdoing by an outside investigator in June after a formal complaint was lodged against him by a village resident in May.

• Tom Manley to leave Antioch College in June of 2021

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  President Tom Manley’s fifth year at Antioch College will be his last. Antioch announced this week that Manley plans to leave his position at the end of his five-year contract next June. A search for his replacement will begin this fall.

• YS Schools restart— District assesses risks

  By Carol Simmons

  

  This story looks at some of the risks of both in-person and online instruction that local educators are weighing in planning for the new academic year.

• ‘A Small Thing to Want’— Cawood explores desire, regret

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 12, 2020

  

  ‘A Small Thing to Want,’ a collection of short stories by author and YS native Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, was published in May.

• The future of Yellow Springs, now

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A few proposals: Light industrial facilities on the western edge of town. Offices and a new residential neighborhood along Xenia Avenue at the southern end. A “designated outdoor refreshment area” downtown where alcoholic beverages can be consumed on the sidewalks. And a dog park.

• Antioch School plans for in-person restart

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 11, 2020

  

  As the new academic year approaches, the Antioch School — the local independent day-school for pre-K and elementary school-aged children — is planning to open its doors, and its many windows, for in-person classes this fall.

• Movies return to Little Art big screen

  By Megan BachmanAugust 6, 2020

  

  The 90-year-old local independent theater, the Little Art, reopened two weekends ago after being closed for more than four months.

• State mask order: how to enforce?

  By Megan BachmanAugust 5, 2020

  

  Exactly two weeks to the day after the Village of Yellow Springs mandated face masks in downtown Yellow Springs to slow the spread of COVID-19, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced masks would be required in public across the whole state.

• Yellow Springs Schools— New academic year to begin online

  By Carol Simmons

  

  In a specially called meeting Saturday morning, July 25, the Yellow Springs school board unanimously approved a plan to restart the 2020–21 academic year online, with instruction to be presented by district teachers.