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• Villagers to run for county seats

  By Carol SimmonsMarch 8, 2018

  

  Three Yellow Springs residents are among the slate of primary candidates certified by the Greene County Board of Elections to appear on the May 8 ballot. All three are seeking county office.

• Maple sugaring at Flying Mouse

  By William Drewing

  

  2018 is Flying Mouse Farms’ tenth year producing maple syrup, and maple sugaring season came early this year, as it did the year before, and the year before that.

• John ‘Rusty’ Neff

  By YS News Staff

  

  On Wednesday, Feb. 28, John Neff passed at Friends Care Center after a very brief illness; he was 72.

• Blue Jacket closes, café remains

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The eclectic independent purveyor of used and rare books in downtown Xenia, Blue Jacket Books, is closing — for reinvention.

• Walter ‘Wally’ Sikes

  By YS News Staff

  

  On Wednesday, Feb. 28, John Neff passed at Friends Care Center after a very brief illness; he was 72.

• Two conferences’ ‘down to earth’ topics

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Liken them to lichen. Two local nonprofits, akin to how algae and fungi form that symbiotic organism, are working in mutually beneficial ways to transform the local food and farming scene.

• William ‘Bill’ C. Short

  By YS News Staff

  

  Beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle, William (Bill) C. Short, 75, passed away on March 3, 2018, at his home in Yellow Springs, surrounded by family.  

• A day at the museum

  By Matt MindeMarch 2, 2018

  

  As the finale to their recent studies of African-American history, Mills Lawn School second-graders tied the past with the present via a “living museum,” and an all-school assembly.

• Public is invited — New ways to fight weeds

  By Megan BachmanMarch 1, 2018

  

  The last time the Village of Yellow Springs sprayed pesticides on public land commonly used by residents was on June 12, 2013. Five years later, Village practices have changed.

• A closer look at local school taxes

  By YS News Staff

  

  Currently near the top third of school districts in a tri-county area for its combined school income and property tax, Yellow Springs Schools would rise even higher in comparison if a 4.7-mill/0.25 percent income tax levy is passed May 8.