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• Kathryn Ann Merrill

  By YS News StaffApril 2, 2015

  

  Kathryn Ann Merrill died Sunday, March 22. She was born Jan. 9,1935, in Hollywood, Calif.

• Village Council— Landlords protest change

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  At Village Council’s March 16 meeting, Council members heard a second full-throated protest by local landlords to a proposed new Village policy holding landlords responsible for their tenants’ utility debts.

• Group addresses race issues

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Are people of color targeted by police here? Are African-American students in school punished worse than their white counterparts? Are racial minorities discriminated against in downtown stores? Is local black history being lost?

• Scout holds BSA to its own core values

  By Megan Bachman

  

  After taking 80-mile bike trips and camping in 14-degree-below-zero weather, local Eagle Scout Lake Miller is turning to his next activity with the Boy Scouts — ending discrimination in the nationwide youth organization. This week Miller launched a local chapter of Scouts for Equality, a national group pressuring the Boy Scouts to allow gay scout […]

• Council nears water softening vote

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Village Council is close to approving a water softening component to its proposed new water plant, slated for construction in 2016.

• Police explain the status quo

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Yellow Springs Police Department will continue to employ one officer on the Greene County ACE Task Force to help contain violent crime in the region. The local police will also continue to call the SWAT team when appropriate to ensure the village’s safety during violent and potentially harmful situations. The size of the department […]

• #ysgram show focuses on the local

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 26, 2015

  

  Organizers of the #ysgram, the new show at the Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery, want to offer villagers an opportunity to see familiar local sights in new ways.

• Balancing a low crime rate with high policing costs

  By Megan Bachman

  

  While last year there were 28 murders in the City of Dayton and more than 1,200 violent crimes there, violence in Yellow Springs has barely been an issue, with an average of about three violent incidents each year for the last seven.

• MLS kids learn to practice peace

  By Megan Bachman

  

  What began as an anti-bullying campaign at Mills Lawn Elementary School has evolved into a school-wide focus on empathy, inclusion and conflict resolution, Project Peace.

• A new energy at Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The process of bringing the the Children’s Center from the brink of insolvency has not been without its challenges. But the affordable, all-day early childhood education that the school has long offered is too vital to the community to abandon.