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Zyrian Atha-Arnett stands with his defense lawyer, Jon Paul Rion, during his sentencing Wednesday, July 21, in the 2019 stabbing death of Leonid Lonya Clark. (Photo by Carol Simmons)
Guilty plea in YS stabbing death
A Yellow Springs native accused in the stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter as part of a plea deal with the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office.
Zyrian Atha-Arnett, who goes by the shorter last name Arnett, pleaded guilty also to separate charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence related to the Jan. 13, 2019, killing of his friend and former classmate.
If you’ve walked into the local library over the past several months, you might have seen a new, but familiar face masked, of course sitting behind the protective plastic screen that enshrouds the reference desk.
That face belongs to Tracy Phillips, who began her position as head librarian at the local branch of the Greene County Public Library in October of 2020. She took the reins from Connie Collett, who retired from the position after 31 years of service.
A Yellow Springs native, Phillips began her tenure at the helm of the village library after having worked as the branch manager of a Dayton Metro Library for 11 years. She said that coming back to the YS library the library of her childhood was a logical next step in her career.
A filtration pool at the Yellow Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant on Grinnell Road.
The company that runs a biodigester in Greene County has stopped accepting human waste. That means local municipalities need to find other ways to dispose of the sludge that comes out of their wastewater treatment plants.
Nearby residents have complained of the smell and potential health and environmental hazards from Renergy s Fairborn operation for some time, including at a protest last year at the Bath Township Trustee Building. Some residents even filed a lawsuit last month against the company and the property owner, Tom Pitstick, who leases his land for the operation. Furthermore, since Pitstick is a Bath Township Trustee, which is where the biodigester operation is located, residents have also raised concerns about transparency. In December, the Ohio Ethics Commission issued a subpoena for Bath Township records regarding Pitstick and Renergy.