From The Print Section :: Page 40

• Trace Lysette talks humanity, joy in ‘Monica’

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 2, 2023

  

  Earlier this month, the Little Art Theatre premiered “Monica,” a film starring Trace Lysette, who grew up in Yellow Springs and the wider Miami Valley. Lysette spoke briefly with the News via phone after the film’s local debut.

• Ohio tick numbers on the rise

  By YS News StaffJuly 1, 2023

  

  According to the Ohio Department of Health, or ODH, website, blacklegged (deer) tick populations are expanding in the state.

• 18 students graduate from Antioch College

  By Matt MindeJune 30, 2023

  

  Eighteen Antioch College students became the college’s newest alumni following commencement ceremonies Saturday, June 24. 

• 2023 Yellow Springs Pride Festival

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  On Saturday, June 24, thousands of kaleidoscopic revelers — villagers and visitors alike — attended the 2023 Yellow Springs Pride Festival.

• Perry League’s noteworthy legacy

  By Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023

  

  Three years after Donald Perry’s death in 1967, the baseball league he founded was renamed Perry League in his honor. His legacy has been going strong for more than half a century.

• Planning and Zoning Administrator Swinger signs off

  By Reilly DixonJune 28, 2023

  

  Eight years and innumerable planning and zoning projects later, Swinger said her time has come to step down as a public servant. She is retiring later this month.

• Air quality plummets in Midwest, haze returns to Yellow Springs

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  On Wednesday morning, June 28, the air quality index, or AQI, for Yellow Springs hit 211, classified as “very unhealthy conditions” — the highest it’s been all month.

• Building Community | Baseball fields renamed after Davenport sisters

  By Jessica ThomasJune 27, 2023

  

  Jackie, who died in March 2023 and Yvonne, who died in February 2021, were integral in creating a space for women in Yellow Springs’ recreational baseball league and were fierce advocates for athletic programs throughout the village.

• Review | To interiority and beyond in ‘Asteroid City’

  By Reilly DixonJune 26, 2023

  

  “‘Asteroid City’ is a meta film that spends 104 minutes scaffolding layers upon layers of tweedy, postmodern artifice. And I, for one, loved it.”

• Free lunch program feeds local youth

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The event marked the second Friday during which volunteers from the local Pleasant Grove Missionary Church set up on the porch of the library to hand out sandwiches, chips, fruit and water to kids at no cost.