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• October Students of the Month

  By YS News StaffNovember 28, 2019

  

  Each month, McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School acknowledge one student from each grade who has shown exemplary work as a student, classmate and citizen of the school. The schools have selected the following six students, who best modeled these efforts in the month of October:

• Villagers testify on jail plan

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Yellow Springs residents made a strong showing at last Thursday’s public hearing on a proposed sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.

• Invasive of the month— Impact of ornamentals not pretty

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The present article is the last in this season’s “invasive of the month” series, which began with a two-part article on the local impact of non-native invasive plants last spring, and continued with monthly features focused on specific invasives of local concern. The series was undertaken in consultation with Glen Helen.

• Citizens review police actions

  By Megan Bachman

  

  An ad hoc citizen committee is reviewing a disciplinary matter involving two officers of the Yellow Springs Police Department.

• Memorial for Wilberta ‘Billie’ Eastman

  By YS News Staff

  

  A memorial service for Wilberta “Billie” Eastman will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2:30 p.m., at Rockford Chapel.

• Lonya Clark murder case moves forward

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett is expected to be in court Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, to plead to charges related to the stabbing death earlier this year of Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Laura Curliss wins third Council seat

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Laura Curliss is the third winner in the Nov. 5 election for three open Village Council seats, according to the Greene County Board of Elections’ final official results, which were certified on Tuesday, Nov. 19.

• A trinity of actors in ‘Agnes’

  By Guest Contributor

  

  The Yellow Springs Theater Company returns this month with “Agnes of God,” a thoughtful drama that explores faith and religion in the midst of a murder mystery. 

• YS Schools welcome traffic experiment

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Nearly two weeks have passed since the temporary traffic change affecting Short Street and parts of South Walnut and Limestone streets came to an end.

  As the Village continues collecting information on the Oct. 21 through Nov. 9 trial, the News is looking at the origins and purposes of the plan.

• Other voices — Gifts, truths for Thanksgiving

  By Guest ContributorNovember 27, 2019

  

  For many Indigenous people today, and especially here in the Ohio Valley, this time of year is riddled with modern day cringe-worthy moments, sadness, mourning and, sometimes, arcane anger.