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• Drilling ban is approved

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2012

  At their meeting Monday, Aug. 20, Village Council took an initial step toward becoming the first municipality in Ohio to ban fracking and injection wells within its borders.

• Clifton Gorge Music & Arts Festival— In with the old—and the new

  By Jeff Simons

  

  Clifton is back on the map. The festival map, that is.

• Village Council— Streetscape plan is curbed

  By Diane Chiddister

  At their Aug. 20 meeting, Village Council members said no to a controversial and ambitious plan to change the downtown streetscape.

• Chamber music fundraiser— Italy remixed, in music and in place

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  This weekend, as a fundraiser for CMYS, a local string ensemble will perform an intimate concert of Baroque sonatas in the setting of an Italian villa that matches the scene of the music’s inception.

• West Nile virus in Village

  By Megan BachmanAugust 23, 2012

  Local mosquitoes tested positive last week for West Nile Virus, a potentially serious illness, prompting the Greene County Combined Health District to begin spraying insecticide in one village neighborhood.

• Village Council— Revised code to allow flexibility

  By Diane Chiddister

  The recent zoning code revision includes changes to allow more flexibility in the code that aligns with goals articulated during the 2010 community visioning project, according to a summary of the update presented to Village Council at Council’s Aug. 6 meeting.

• New villager Brian Housh—Bringing talents from Thailand

  By Sehvilla Mann

  

  When Brian Housh had lived in Yellow Springs for one month, he surprised a friend by handing him a business card. “You’ve only lived here a month — how can you already have a card?” the friend asked.

• Documentary ‘The Invisible War’— Sexual violence in military endemic

  By Diane Chiddister

  In Iraq or Afghanistan today, an American female soldier has a greater chance of being raped than killed by enemy fire. According to estimates by the Department of Defense, in 2010 there were 19,000 violent sexual assaults against women in the military.

• Painter returns for son’s schooling

  By Sarah Siff

  

  Aside from the magnetic pull that Yellow Springs seems to exert over artists, painter Tia Acheson felt another element drawing her toward her childhood home. The village native, 41, wanted her son, Luca, 5, to attend the Antioch School where she herself had learned to create.

• Laying out his wears (pun intended)

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  Laying out his wears, pun intended