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• Wendy Rae Dallas

  By YS News StaffDecember 12, 2019

  

  Wendy Rae Dallas of Los Angeles died on Nov. 23, 2019, with her wife and partner of 41 years, Anne Block, by her side.

• Virgil Hervey

  By YS News StaffDecember 11, 2019

  

  Virgil Hervey died on December 11, 2019. He was 75 years old.

• ‘Music in Friendship’— 31 years of Heartstrings

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Heartstrings, the all-women traditional musical ensemble that includes Goldstein, Burkholder, Carol Van Ausdal and Linda Scutt, will perform their annual holiday concert at the YS Arts Council on Saturday, Dec. 14, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

• First Lines — Poetry of the sleeping breath

  By Audrey HackettDecember 6, 2019

  

  The voice of the dog. Simple, straightforward. And then, like a child who speaks an uncanny truth, soulful. Two “poems for dogs” from villager Artie Isaac.

• Joe C. Nickoson

  By YS News StaffDecember 5, 2019

  

  Joe C. Nickoson died peacefully in his home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, surrounded by his wife and family. A memorial service to celebrate his life is being planned for the near future.

• Laurel Herminghausen

  By YS News Staff

  

  Laurel Diltz Campbell Dankert Herminghausen passed away at 4:45 on Nov. 21, 2019, in her home, surrounded by the family for whom she felt immense love, and with her beloved daughter lying next to her.

• Christopher Brookshire

  By YS News Staff

  

  Christopher Richard “Chris” Brookshire died Nov. 29, 2019, in Florida, after a valiant battle with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 63 years old.

• Traffic trial survey results— Most respondents oppose street changes

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The majority of respondents to a Village survey on its temporary traffic project do not support making the changes permanent. At the same time, more survey respondents felt the one-way design on South Walnut Street made school drop-off safer for children at Mills Lawn Schools than didn’t. Those were some of the highlights of a Village survey on its three-week traffic trial, which involved several changes to downtown streets and parking areas.

• Poems of renewal at winter solstice

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Area residents are invited to enter the “thin time” at Tecumseh Land Trust’s eighth annual Winter Solstice Poetry Reading, held Friday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m., at Glen Helen’s Vernet Ecological Center.

• Village meeting on Vernay cleanup— Water, utilities are worries

  By Megan Bachman

  

  How good is the current proposal to clean up the Vernay Laboratories site? How much contamination is there? Are municipal water supplies protected? What can be done with the land when it is cleaned up? Those were a few of the questions asked at a public meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21, on Vernay’s most recent plan to clean up contamination at its former local rubber plant on Dayton Street.