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• Protest held outside Gov. DeWine home

  By Reilly DixonNovember 27, 2020

  

  On Friday, Nov. 20, nearly 200 demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Mike DeWine’s home in Cedarville Township to protest his and the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19-related mandates, including the statewide mask order and the 10 p.m. curfew.

• COVID-19 contact tracing— More cases, more contacts

  By Audrey HackettNovember 25, 2020

  

  The local health department’s contact tracing team now includes nine people, including employees from the Ohio Department of Health, part of the state’s scaled-up contact tracing workforce.

• Little Thunders— Unsettling Truthsgiving

  By YS News Staff

  

  This November 26, as you sit down to your meal, I have a message for the young people because they will understand better than anyone else: There is no need to shy away from the truth.

• The Briar Patch— On kindness

  By Cheryl DurgansNovember 24, 2020

  

  And what would Cleola think of this iteration of kindness we are experiencing now? This market driven world of contemporary culture that has attempted to commoditize kindness into a kindness tourist destination trap.

• Countering racism in Yellow Springs schools

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 23, 2020

  

  In the News’ ongoing “Facing Race” series, we turn this week to the local school district for a look at how the schools are reckoning with race and implementing new efforts, alongside continuing initiatives, to counter racism’s presence and effects.

• Village Impact Project— Mentoring aims to change lives

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 21, 2020

  

  Founded by high school intervention specialist Donna Haller, and initially launched in January 2019 under the auspices of the area Big Brother Big Sister organization, the local group struck out on its own and formed a governing board of trustees that summer.

• Bookplate Ink— The village’s history in bookplates

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 20, 2020

  

  Printed bookplates — also referred to as “ex libris,” after the Latin for “from the library of,” which often precedes the name of a book’s owner on a bookplate — are nearly as old as Gütenberg’s printing press itself.

• Village Council— Budget to ‘burn through’ reserves

  By Megan BachmanNovember 19, 2020

  

  There’s money to spend, but not for long. That was the message from Village of Yellow Springs officials, who plan to dip into reserves to cover $1 million in deficit spending next year.

• Gov. DeWine imposes curfew

  By Megan BachmanNovember 18, 2020

  

  At a press conference on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the state was imposing a curfew to help curb the “dramatic” spread of COVID-19 in the state.

• More local Chappelle shows OK’d

  By Carol Simmons

  

  The series of ticketed shows, which began in early June and ran for four months — as allowed by a temporary use permit for the agriculturally zoned property — may now continue through Aug. 5, 2021.