From The Print Section :: Page 166

• Sapling

  By YS News StaffMarch 5, 2020

  

  Hosts Michele Burns and John DeWine, of Flying Mouse Farms, along with Tecumseh Land Trust volunteers, led tours demonstrating the sugaring process, culminating in a visit to the steam-filled sugar shack.

• Planning Commission— Glen Cottages passes

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Glen Cottages, Home, Inc.’s planned pocket neighborhood at 1133 Xenia Ave., got the go-ahead from Planning Commission at its Feb. 11 meeting.

• Village Council—  RECs could generate $183K

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  In a policy shift, the Village of Yellow Springs will be selling its existing Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, which are tied to its purchase of energy from renewable sources. Yellow Springs had previously retained its RECs, a form of currency in green energy markets.

• YS schools— School district, former teacher settle suits

  By Carol Simmons

  

  The Yellow Springs school district and a former district teacher have reached a settlement for the second time in five years.

• Free speech and the library

  By Audrey HackettMarch 1, 2020

  

  A local group organizing against Issue 12 — the sales tax levy to fund the construction of a new jail for Greene County — was turned away from Yellow Springs Community Library’s meeting room last week.

• Villagers give views on jail

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 28, 2020

  

  Village Council, at its Feb. 18 regular meeting, considered perspectives on Issue 12, a 0.25% sales tax increase to fund the construction of a new and larger jail for Greene County.

• Schools mourn beloved bus driver

  By Carol SimmonsFebruary 27, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs students, parents, teachers, staff — everyone knew beloved district bus driver Darryl Dewer simply as  “Mr. Darryl.”

• Leonard Cargan

  By YS News Staff

  

  Leonard Cargan, born April 7, 1929, in Albany, N.Y., died on Jan. 22, 2020, at his home, with family and a hospice nurse present. He was 90 years old.

• Of cabbages and spring

  By YS News Staff

  

  While astronomical spring is still three weeks hence, what Yellow Springs Almanac writer Bill Felker calls “Community Spring” is here.

• Grinnell Road ‘shootout’— Investigation continues in double fatal shooting

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Greene County authorities say that the investigation into the double fatal shooting outside a home on Grinnell Road, just south of Yellow Springs, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, could take weeks to complete.