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• 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.

• Two election petitions rejected in YS school board race

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Two Yellow Springs School Board incumbents, Vice President Aïda Mehermic and first-term member Steve McQueen will not be eligible to run for office in the 2021 election cycle because their petitions were not certified by the Greene County Board of Elections, or BOE.

• New beginnings for YS schools

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 26, 2021

  

  The first day of classes for Yellow Springs Schools was Monday, Aug. 23. And while the start of a new academic year is typically cause for heightened emotion — whether excitement or dread — this new start contains more feeling than typical years past.

• 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.

• YS school board — Facilities levy set for ballot

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 23, 2021

  

  After months of incremental steps leading toward the goal of putting a nearly $35.6 million facilities levy on the November ballot, the Yellow Springs school board has taken the final move necessary to place the measure before district voters this fall.