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• Council pulls parking lot proposal

  By Megan BachmanMay 30, 2019

  

  Beatty Hughes Park will not soon be the site of a municipal parking lot. A proposal to turn over the downtown park to parking was tabled at Council’s May 20 meeting after public opposition.

• YSHS senior’s best score — Clark to play for the Quakers

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Looking back on his four-year varsity basketball career at Yellow Springs High School, graduating senior Andrew Clark struggled to pick out a single highlight. Instead, each game was as important as the last. 

• Ralph E. Ramey

  By YS News StaffMay 23, 2019

  

  Ralph E. Ramey died Monday, April 29, 2019, in Federal Way, Wash., from complications of pneumonia after a prolonged decline in health. He was 90.

• ‘DOROTHY LANE: a travelogue’— Smith’s artistic alchemy transforms

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Louise Smith, a veteran writer and actor, therapist and Antioch College performance professor, will debut her new piece, “DOROTHY LANE:  a travelogue,” on Friday, May 17, and Saturday, May 18, at 8 p.m. in the Foundry Theater’s Experimental Theater.

• Levi Anthony Samuel Bittner

  By YS News StaffMay 16, 2019

  

  Levi Anthony Samuel Bittner, age 39, of Cedarville, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2019.

• Council ban on clapping, signs — Do rules violate free speech?

  By Megan Bachman

  

  On January 22, Village Council chambers was standing-room only as more than 50 citizens crammed into the room, many to express their disapproval for an ongoing disciplinary process involving a local police officer.

• Greene County— Designs for a new jail

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  A consulting firm hired by Greene County has so far come up with four possible design options for a new local county jail complex.

• Andrew Strolger

  By YS News Staff

  

  At age 66, Andrew Strolger passed in North Huntington, Pa., on April 22, 2019.

• Home, Inc. annual meeting speaker — A history of unfair housing

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The average white family in America today has 10 times the wealth of the average black family. To longtime fair housing administrator Larry Pearl, “that’s an amazing figure,” and its cause can be traced to America’s long history of housing discrimination.

• Dress code comment spurs controversy

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A woman who works in food service at the high school faces the possibility of losing her job after separate public and private social media posts came to the attention of school officials last week.