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• SIDEBAR: Focus on mental health in the community

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 27, 2014

  

  This spring, the Human Relations Commission, or HRC, will launch a series of programs aimed at educating villagers on mental health issues and finding better ways to help those in the community who deal with these concerns.

• Schenck incident prompts concerns— Crisis training for police supported

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  In recent years, area police officers have noticed a change in their work, as their calls more frequently involve people with mental health issues.

• SIDEBAR: Yellow Springs Water Rate Hike

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Vilage Council members agreed on a 15 percent increase in Village water rates.

• Yellow Springs Utility funds show deficits

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  At their Feb. 3 meeting, Village Council members heard that, in the projected 2014 Village budget, most of the Village enterprise (or utility) funds — the water fund, sewer fund and solid waste funds — show deficit spending.

• Feb. 27, 2014 Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Feb. 27, 2014 Bulldog sports round-up

• Sweet and sappy

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  Last Sunday afternoon, Feb. 22, the Tecumseh Land Trust sponsored a tour of Flying Mouse Farm for the annual tapping of the sugar maples.

• Folksinger Bob Lucas to play at Mills Lawn School

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Folk singer Bob Lucas will perform at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, in the Mills Lawn auditorium for the Mills Lawn PTO Family Fun Night, an annual event to lighten the dreary winter months.

• Making the call for calamity days

  By Megan Bachman

  

  During this exceptionally cold and snowy winter, Yellow Springs School Superintendent Mario Basora has closed local schools eight times, three more than the state’s maximum of five calamity days per school year without having to make up the days.

• Yellow Springs police look into stolen vehicles

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Two vehicles were stolen last week from residences in the northeast quandrant of the village, and about 10 more were entered or burglarized in the same general area.

• School board— School of rock replaces ‘flex’

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  An overwhelming majority of Yellow Springs High School students last fall voiced disappointment with part of a new scheduling system that was implemented at the beginning of the school year.