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• Mary Donahoe

  By YS News StaffNovember 22, 2018

  

  Mary was born in Hot Springs, Ark., on May 14, 1941, the only child of a New Orleans doctor, 54 when she was born.

• Sidewalk slur evinces racism

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last month, a newly poured block of concrete was defaced with a racial slur at the corner of Wright Street and West South College Street.

• Planning Commission — Varying views on senior apartments

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last Monday’s Village Planning Commission meeting was standing room only as villagers aired their thoughts on Home, Inc.’s proposed 54-unit affordable senior apartment building between East Herman and East Marshall streets. 

• Election 2018 — Dems revived despite losses

  By Carol Simmons

  

  On their face, the results of the Nov. 6 midterm elections in both Greene County and the state maintained the Republican-dominant status quo. But a deeper look shows that change is occurring.

• New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

  By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

  

  The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”

• Live from Mills Lawn, it’s Tuesday morning!

  By Guest Contributor

  

  “Good morning, amazing MLS students!” announced Mills Lawn sixth-grader Tiger Collins on a Tuesday last month. Flanked by fellow students Gabriella Kibblewhite and Stella Platt, she began broadcasting the daily news at Mills Lawn.

• Mills Lawn School celebrates service

  By Megan Bachman

  

  In honor of U.S. veterans’ “sacrifice, patriotism and service to our country,” Mills Lawn students welcomed nearly 70 military men and women to the school Monday, Nov. 12, for a special program and luncheon.

• James Whitman Agna

  By YS News Staff

  

  James Whitman Agna passed away on Nov. 6, 2018, at the age of 92.

• Village Council — Surveillance policy passed

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Any new surveillance technology the Yellow Springs Police Department or other municipal agency wants to use must first be approved by Council at a public hearing.

• The Great War that transformed the village

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  On Feb. 14, 1919, the Yellow Springs News published a long list on its front page, spanning the entire length of the paper. It was the “Roll of Honor,” a list of all villagers who had served, or were serving, in the Army during the First World War, which had recently ended.