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• Poverty the focus of local simulation

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 21, 2021

  

  On Wednesday, June 30, 28 villagers pondered these and other dilemmas facing fictional characters in the Virtual Cost of Poverty Experience, a 90-minute poverty simulation that is designed to help people better understand the effects of poverty.

• Candidates file for fall races

  By Megan BachmanAugust 20, 2021

  

  More candidates may be vying for public office this fall than in recent years. Last week, 20 people seeking local office filed petitions with the Greene County Board of Elections ahead of the Aug. 4 deadline.

• COVID-19 Update — August 5, 2021

  By YS News StaffAugust 19, 2021

  

  COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the state and county due to the highly contagious Delta variant. Ohio’s COVID-19 per capita case incidence rate rose to 77.4 cases per 100,000 for the two weeks ending July 29, up from 48.5 for the two weeks prior.

• Tin Can Economy — A space in the school for the swifts

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  Walk over to the Union School House on a clear late summer evening and you’ll see them. Swooping and darting through the dusk, conducting aerial dramas against the backdrop of a setting sun: chimney swifts. Hundreds of them.

• Continued coverage— Plea deal in stabbing death

  By Carol Simmons

  

  A Yellow Springs native accused in the stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office.

• Yellow Springs schools to require masks

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 18, 2021

  

  The beginning of the new school year this month will look a lot like the end of last year for Yellow Springs district students, at least in terms of COVID-19 precautions.

• Taekwondo expert to teach self-defense class

  By Jessica Thomas

  

  Master Christina Bayley, owner of Total Taekwondo Fitness, is hosting a self-defense class in Yellow Springs on Aug. 21 for ages 13 and up. Students will learn defense tactics and the best time to use them.

• Village PO clerk documents living with ‘long COVID’

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 17, 2021

  

  Most Americans are familiar with the most common symptoms of the illness caused by the coronavirus: fever, shortness of breath, sore throat, persistent cough, and loss of taste and/or smell. But what about when the symptoms of COVID linger, unfurling beyond two to six weeks into long months? What happens when those symptoms shift and evolve?

• Introducing: The Ohio Coffee Co.

  By Jessica ThomasAugust 12, 2021

  

  Coming soon to the village is Ohio Coffee Co., a coffee shop, espresso bar and bakery that caters to the whole family including members with four paws.

• MVECA to move, expand — New owners for 888 Dayton Street

  By Megan BachmanAugust 11, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs-based information technology provider, Miami Valley Educational Computer Association, or MVECA, has purchased 888 Dayton Street.