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• Students of the Month | March 2023

  By YS News StaffMarch 23, 2023

  

  YS Schools announced the March recipients of student and faculty awards at the March 9 Board of Education meeting.

• Global flavors at MAZU restaurant

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  Officially opening Friday, March 24, at 11 a.m., MAZU features a menu without borders, a menu influenced by Taiwanese, Israeli and South Indian culture, reflecting the cultural backgrounds of the three owners

• Building Community | A lifetime at the movies

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 22, 2023

  

  Jenny Cowperthwaite Ruka’s longevity at the the Little Art Theatre— her “continuity of experience,” as she called it —  helped make it a welcoming place for community members over the years, no matter the changes to policy, practice or even the theater’s physical space.

• 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?”