Village Life Section :: Page 65

• 50 years on: Earth Day in Yellow Springs

  By Megan BachmanApril 22, 2020

  

  The News has invited some of our own prominent local environmentalists to reflect on the 50-year anniversary of Earth Day.

• Yellow Springs School District explores early end to school year

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Yellow Springs’ final day is currently set as May 29, with teachers’ last day scheduled June 1. But Superintendent Terri Holden would like to shorten the school year by two weeks and conclude the instructional year May 15.

• 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.