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• ESports program debuts at Yellow Springs High School

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 21, 2023

  

  There’s a new sports team at Yellow Springs High School — but you won’t find its members on a court, field or pitch. Several days a week, the ESports team is in the media center, competing against other schools in their league via computer.

• Emergent Verse | A poetry workshop

  By Ed DavisMarch 20, 2023

  

  “Poet and Yellow Springs resident Maggie Dean has kindly let me use her wonderful poem “Mental Math” to demonstrate some aspects of poetic craft I’ve learned over the years.”

• Yellow Springs business owners denounce plastic ban

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  The message from a number of local business owners at a recent town hall was clear: The proposed legislation to restrict commercial single-use plastics is too hasty.

• New cannabis store opens in downtown Yellow Springs

  By Jessica ThomasMarch 17, 2023

  

  After years of learning about CBD, its medicinal effects and the business side of the industry, Shane Ayrsman and his wife Sarah DeVore recently opened Tweedle D’s on Xenia Avenue, in the heart of downtown Yellow Springs.

• Police chief introduces therapy dog

  By Reilly DixonMarch 16, 2023

  

  At the regular Council meeting on Monday, March 6, a new Village staffer was sworn in: two-year old Shazam, the front-running candidate for the Village’s new therapy dog program.

• Layoffs, restructuring at Antioch College

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Antioch College President Jane Fernandes publicly announced in a Feb. 21 statement that the college had eliminated nine staff and faculty positions and has plans to “restructure” an additional eight positions with title changes and salary reductions.

• Sankofa Talk | More intensive antiracism work needed

  By Bomani MoyendaMarch 9, 2023

  

  “Despite our touted reputation for social justice, and interracial harmony, has Yellow Springs secretly, silently, begun surfing the waves of racism and white supremacy that have been cascading across the county in recent years?”

• Community opines on facilities options

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The second listening session was held on Feb. 21 to gather feedback and suggestions from community members on the future of the school district’s infrastructure as the board works to place a facilities levy on this November’s ballot.

• East Palestine train derailment | Village water safe, experts say

  By Reilly DixonMarch 8, 2023

  

  In the five weeks since a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, concerns about water and air safety have come home to Yellow Springs.

• Yellow Springs Schools to debut ‘Mamma Mia!’

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 7, 2023

  

  McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School will present “Mamma Mia!,” the jukebox musical based on the songs of Abba, at the John Legend Theater in Springfield on Thursday and Friday, March 9 and 10, at 7 p.m.; and Saturday, March 11, at 2 and 7 p.m.