Charlotte Battino passed away peacefully in the company of family on Dec. 28, 2020, after more than 50 years in Yellow Springs. She was 84. She leaves behind a rich legacy of community involvement, including nearly four years on Village Council, where she guided the early greenbelt program. Upon her departure from Council, the late former News editor Don Wallis wrote, “Charlotte excelled at the job. She worked. She got hold of information, absorbed it, studied it, understood it, insisted that others pay attention to it, demanded that they work harder than they wanted to. She more than anyone else shaped an approach to village government that was well, it was exhaustive, but it was also comprehensive, and that’s rare, and it’s good. Even when Ms. Battino voted in a way I didn’t like, I knew she knew more about it than I did, and that she was, probably, right.” Charlotte also served for many years on the Yellow Springs League of Women Voters, and as board member and finance
By Megan BachmanFebruary 27, 2021
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By Lauren ShowsFebruary 26, 2021
The third annual Wheeling Gaunt Community Service Award presentation event, sponsored by the Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project Committee and the YS Arts Council, was held virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
By YS News StaffFebruary 25, 2021
On Thursday, February 25, at 7 p.m., the Glen Helen trail system will close to protect the nature preserve during the freeze/thaw cycle. The trails are scheduled to reopen Monday, March 1.
By Lauren ShowsFebruary 26, 2021
The third annual Wheeling Gaunt Community Service Award presentation event, sponsored by the Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project Committee and the YS Arts Council, was held virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
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The third annual Wheeling Gaunt Community Service Award presentation event, sponsored by the Wheeling Gaunt Sculpture Project Committee and the YS Arts Council, was held virtually on Tuesday, Feb. 23. This year’s award was presented to the Yellow Springs Community Foundation. Previous honorees were The 365 Project in 2020 and Mikasa Simms’ first grade class at Mills Lawn in 2019.
“We decided to acknowledge the Yellow Springs Community Foundation because their support for our community, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been pitch perfect to the type of legacy that Wheeling Gaunt left for our town,” said Sculpture Project Manager Cheryl Durgans.
In the days immediately following Ohio’s stay-at-home order, the Community Foundation leaped into action, forming groups to address food insecurity, collecting and distributing masks which were difficult to find early in the pandemic to essential workers, and, with the YS Credit Union, establishing a fund to distribu
Yellow Springs kicked off the beginning of 2020, as always, with the traditional ball drop overseen by Lance Rudegeair; MTFR personnel handed out hot cocoa, and at least one marriage proposal greeted the new year.
The Reach Out Free Clinic, which was held each Tuesday evening at Central Chapel AME Church, celebrated a year of operation in early January. The free, donation-based clinic, a satellite location of Reach Out Dayton, closed due to the pandemic in March; the Dayton location shuttered permanently later in the year.
Nan Harshaw, longtime chair of the MLK Day Planning Committee, was awarded the annual Peacemaker Award at the 2020 Martin Luther King Day celebration. The late Willa Dallas was also recognized for her civil rights efforts and her role in initiating the annual local event.