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• K-12 distance learning to continue until the end of the school year

  By Megan BachmanApril 20, 2020

  

  Ohio’s K-12 schools will remain closed and teaching continue remotely until the end of the school year, Gov. Mike DeWine announced on Monday, April 20.

• Furloughs, pay cuts at Antioch

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Antioch College has enacted sweeping furloughs, hour reductions and pay cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• Amid 693 case rise, path to reopen Ohio ‘by Ohioans, for Ohioans’

  By Audrey HackettApril 17, 2020

  

  Ohio saw 693 probable new cases of COVID-19 today, the highest rise to date, as Gov. Mike DeWine spoke in broad terms about a path to restarting Ohio. Greene County reported its second death from the illness.

• Governor says Ohio to begin reopening on May 1

  By Megan BachmanApril 16, 2020

  

  May 1 will be a “new phase” in the state of Ohio’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said at his daily briefing on Thursday, April 16.

• Help for local tenants, landlords

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Stepping in to assist is a new local volunteer committee organized around housing issues. Their goal? That no one loses their home because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• UPDATE: Second Greene County COVID-19 death reclassified

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A day after Greene County Public Health reported its second death from COVID-19, the health department reclassified the death as not related to COVID-19.

• Ohio officials share elements of “response and recovery plan”

  By Megan BachmanApril 13, 2020

  

  Face masks in use for at least a year. An “army” of amateur epidemiologists mobilized to trace cases. Widespread and rapid testing to see who has — and who had — COVID-19.Those are a few aspects of the State of Ohio’s plan to start opening up businesses and schools following the coronavirus pandemic.

• Local farmers eye uncertainty

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2020

  

  Life and growth are happening on local farms against the backdrop of massive shutdown and uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Social distancing working, but testing needed for Ohio to reopen

  By Megan BachmanApril 10, 2020

  

  Social distancing is working, state officials have emphasized at press briefings in recent days. But Ohioans should continue to stay at home to make sure the projections of a dramatically “flattened curve” come to pass, they say. 

• The world of COVID-19 — Seniors learn to adapt

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  How are older Yellow Springers faring in this new isolation? To find out, the News spoke to about a dozen villagers, most in their 80s or older.