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• Village Council— Senior apartments change OK’d

  By Megan BachmanDecember 19, 2019

  

  A redesigned 54-unit senior apartment building was given the green light by Village Council at its Dec. 2 regular meeting.

• Jail tax headed to ballot

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  A sales tax increase to pay for a new, larger county jail is headed to the March 2020 primary ballot.

• Village finances— Revenues steady, expenses rise

  By Megan BachmanDecember 12, 2019

  

  As Village Council members took their first vote on the 2020 budget at their Dec. 2 regular meeting, they also briefly discussed the state of municipal finances.

• Antioch College closes Thursday afternoon after ‘credible threat’

  By Audrey HackettDecember 5, 2019

  

  Antioch College closed this afternoon after a “credible threat.” The situation was de-escalated by local police just after 4 p.m., and the college community received the “all clear” to return to campus around 5:20 p.m.

• Traffic trial survey results— Most respondents oppose street changes

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The majority of respondents to a Village survey on its temporary traffic project do not support making the changes permanent. At the same time, more survey respondents felt the one-way design on South Walnut Street made school drop-off safer for children at Mills Lawn Schools than didn’t. Those were some of the highlights of a Village survey on its three-week traffic trial, which involved several changes to downtown streets and parking areas.

• Murder suspect pleads not guilty

  By Carol Simmons

  

  In arraignment proceedings Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, at the Greene County courthouse in Xenia, defense counsel for area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in the stabbing death earlier this year of local man Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Villagers testify on jail plan

  By Audrey HackettNovember 28, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs residents made a strong showing at last Thursday’s public hearing on a proposed sales tax increase to pay for a new county jail.

• Citizens review police actions

  By Megan Bachman

  

  An ad hoc citizen committee is reviewing a disciplinary matter involving two officers of the Yellow Springs Police Department.

• Lonya Clark murder case moves forward

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett is expected to be in court Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, to plead to charges related to the stabbing death earlier this year of Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Laura Curliss wins third Council seat

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Laura Curliss is the third winner in the Nov. 5 election for three open Village Council seats, according to the Greene County Board of Elections’ final official results, which were certified on Tuesday, Nov. 19.