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• District report card suggests losses for YS Schools

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 17, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs’ most recent score was 83.5 points out of a possible 120 (69.6%), representing a drop of five percentage points.

• Mills Lawn School closed Wednesday due to gas leak

  By YS News StaffDecember 7, 2021

  

  Mills Lawn School will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 8, as a precaution while a gas leak is remediated.

• School district hires new treasurer, appoints new board member

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 30, 2021

  

  In a special meeting Tuesday morning, Nov. 22, the Yellow Springs school board approved the hiring of a new district treasurer and the appointment of a new board member.

• Budget deficit forecasted for Village Schools

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 26, 2021

  

  After finishing the last two fiscal years with revenues higher than expenditures, Yellow Springs school leaders anticipate a return to deficit spending this fiscal year (FY), which ends June 30, 2022, according to the district’s latest five-year financial forecast.

• Looking ahead after school levy loss

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 13, 2021

  

  At a 61%-39% spread, Yellow Springs district voters last week rejected a combined 6.5-mill, 37-year property tax and a 0.5% income tax increase with no end date to build a $35.6 million K–12 school at the location of the current middle/high school on East Enon Road.

• Ellison resigns from YS school board

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 12, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs school board member Sylvia Ellison has resigned, according to a press release from the district on Friday afternoon, Nov. 12.

• Mills Lawn students open Veteran’s and Peace Park

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2021

  

  On Thursday, Nov. 11, Veteran’s Day, Mill Lawn Elementary School students created a temporary Veterans and Peace Park on the Mills Lawn tennis courts, which is now open for visitors after school hours and on the weekend through Friday, Nov. 19.

• Yellow Springs High School premieres monologues with ‘edge’

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 23, 2021

  

  “Talking With…” will be staged in the Agraria barn on Friday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25 and 26, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

• Yellow Springs Development Corporation outlines Mills Lawn plan

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 17, 2021

  

  Development of a plan for the Mills Lawn Elementary School building and property at the center of town has been set in motion.

• COVID cases prompt temporary closure at YS Community Children’s Center

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 1, 2021

  

  Emotions are frayed among families and staff affiliated with the Yellow Springs Children’s Center, which has closed its doors until Sept. 7 in response to an outbreak of COVID-19 among students and teachers.