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• Annual flour, sugar delivery announced

  By YS News StaffNovember 10, 2023

  

  The Village of Yellow Springs Public Works Department crew will begin its annual delivery of flour and sugar to local widows and widowers on Monday, Nov. 20, and should complete deliveries by Wednesday, Nov. 22.

• Honoring the dead on Día de los Muertos

  By Guest ContributorNovember 9, 2023

  

  Los Días de los Muertos take place Nov. 1–2 each year. On those days, homage is paid to our loved ones who have passed away, and offerings are made for a deeper communion between the living and the dead.

• Nov. 7, 2023 General Election Results

  By YS News StaffNovember 8, 2023

  

  At the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, Ohioans passed two state issues: Issue 1, which will legalize access to abortion and reproductive care and protect that access in the State Constitution; and Issue 2, a statute to legalize the sale and possession of cannabis products for Ohioans ages 21 and older.

• Barbara Fleming’s ‘African American Mothers’ nudges policymakers

  By Guest ContributorNovember 7, 2023

  

  Local resident Barbara Fleming, Ph.D., recently released her new book, “African American Mothers: Their Children and Their Poverty in America in the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century.”

• Yellow Springs school board discusses high rate of student absences

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 6, 2023

  

  Students are considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of instruction during a school year. That percentage is calculated via the ratio of absent hours — both excused or unexcused — to total possible hours of instruction during a school year.

• ‘Restrained roots’ coming to the Foundry Theater at Antioch College

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 4, 2023

  

  The Foundry Theater at Antioch College will continue its first season of programming with a performance from musicians Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert on Wednesday, Nov. 8, beginning at 7 p.m.

• Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs focus of upcoming talk

  By Reilly DixonNovember 3, 2023

  

  The genealogy of Black Civil War veterans of Yellow Springs will be the focus of a community workshop presented by Antioch College and hosted by the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom on two consecutive Saturdays in December.

• 2023 Village Inspiration and Design Award celebration set

  By YS News Staff

  

  The YS Public Arts & Culture Commission will honor its 2023 VIDA recipients in a celebration Friday, Nov. 3, 6–8 p.m., at Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

• Poke Island under new ownership

  By Guest Contributor

  

  Jessica Alt, a 1987 graduate of Yellow Springs High School whose family lives in the village, completed the purchase of the restaurant, renamed Jessica’s Poke Island, at 135 Dayton St. last month.

• My Name Is Iden | One inch at a time

  By Iden CrockettNovember 2, 2023

  

  Ask yourself, “Where is the fight?” It isn’t at the finish line. It is one step past the last.