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• Community Colloquy | ‘White privilege and everyday life‘

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 15, 2022

  

  At the next event on June 16, psychologists Judith Skillings and Frederick “Pete” Peterson will discuss what white privilege is and isn’t, and clarify what microaggressions mean.

• District looks to hire student advocate

  By Lauren ShowsJune 13, 2022

  

  The YS Board of Education held a special meeting Tuesday, May 31, in order to approve some time-sensitive actions, including the job description for a new student advocate to be hired for the district. The position as described was unanimously approved by the four board members who voted.

• My Name Is Iden | Calling all rainbows

  By Iden CrockettJune 12, 2022

  

  “This month will be my second time celebrating Pride as an out transgender person and this time I want to see more than just a momentary gathering of little rainbows.”

• News from the Past: May & June 2022

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2022

  

  50 years ago, in 1972: Anti-Vietnam war protest blocks WPAFB gate. “Between 50 and 70 of the April 20 Wright Patterson AFB demonstrators are in Greene County jail.” [154 demonstrators were arrested, including two Air Force doctors.]

• Haller to retire from YS schools after 30 years

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 10, 2022

  

  After three decades of work in the YS Schools, high school intervention specialist Donna Haller is retiring.

• The Briar Patch | Seeing the Self Beyond Addiction

  By Cheryl DurgansJune 9, 2022

  

  “Through my own family experience, I know the throes of addiction can be a revolving door, a process that challenges even the saintliest of saint’s capacity to forgive.”

• COVID Update | June 9, 2022

  By YS News Staff

  

  The number of new cases in the state, tallied for May 27–June 2 was 17,530, compared to 19,546 for the week of May 20–26.

• Artist Profile | Clean Gene and his record machine

  By Reilly DixonJune 8, 2022

  

  For over half a century, at a number of local venues, bars, dances and stations, longtime villager and renowned disc jockey Gene Lohman has filled the sonic spaces of Yellow Springs with his eccentric and eclectic record spinning.

• Down to Earth | The free advice of birds

  By YS News StaffJune 7, 2022

  

  “Since 1970, North America has lost three billion individual birds, nearly 30% of its total, suffering the heaviest losses among 12 bird families that include sparrows, warblers, finches and swallows.”

• Mechanical failure causes sludge spill

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  On Saturday, May 28, around 6 p.m., a mechanical failure at the Village’s municipal water and wastewater treatment plant led to nearly 750 gallons of sludge spilling out of the facility.