Joseph Carl Holly
Joseph Carl Holly, 86, of Yellow Springs, passed away Tuesday, May 14, at Liberty Nursing Center. He was born September 21, 1926, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the son of Joseph and Magdalene Bittner Holly....
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Jeanette R. Wiggins
Jeanette R. Wiggins passed away peacefully, Saturday, March 23, at Friends Care Community, Yellow Springs. A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 18 at 1 p.m. at Jackson Lytle & Lewis...
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Girls track wins Bulldog Invite Three of the seven meet records smashed at Saturday’s Bulldog Invitational were made by the winning Yellow Springs Bulldogs. The feats were accompanied by victories in...
View ArticleVillage Council— Zoning gets more flexible
Village Council made a host of alterations to the Village zoning code during a special meeting Monday devoted to the current rewrite of the Village’s central planning document. Among the changes made,...
View ArticleSchools tackle project-based learning
Last month the Yellow Springs High School students in graphic arts and English 12 got together to figure out how to help attract more volunteers and donations for The Foodbank, Inc., the primary hunger...
View ArticleSchools forecast solvent budgets
At their meeting Thursday, May 9, the Yellow Springs school board approved the rosiest five-year forecast that they’ve seen in the past three years. The current forecast, presented by District...
View ArticleJennifer Rosengarten exhibits at DVAC— Paintings blooming with color and life
Jennifer Rosengarten can’t remember a time when she didn’t make art. She can’t remember a time when she didn’t love color. And her passion for making art rich with color is currently on display at the...
View ArticleHigh school honors top academics
Yellow Springs High School recognized many of its students, especially its seniors, at the annual scholarship awards ceremony on Wednesday, May 15. Lois Miller, with a grade point average of 4.098, was...
View ArticleGuest learned by teaching
The first graders in Ellen Guest’s class are lucky this year. Being the last class in Guest’s three-decade teaching career, the students get to carry out many of the fun projects she’s created over the...
View ArticleShot in the bark
On May 3 a Tree Care Inc. technician treated white ash and blue ash trees in the Ellis Park and Lloyd Kenney Arboretum by injection into the tree trunk. The ash grove on the west side of Ellis Pond was...
View ArticleMay 23, 2013 Bulldog sports round-up
Softball season ends in tourney Last week the YSHS softball team played its first sectional tournament game in years. The Lady Bulldogs had early base hits by Chelsea Horton in the first inning and...
View ArticleYSHS athletes win scholarships
Six Yellow Springs High School seniors committed to play collegiate sports in recent months. At last week’s signing ceremony were YSHS track and cross-country runners Alex Brown (Wright State...
View ArticleMidwest, union still at odds
Almost two years have passed since Antioch University Midwest and its 13-member union staff began negotiating a new contract, which is yet to be reconciled. After dozens of meetings and mediation...
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James Johnson
James Johnson James Johnson of Yellow Springs died May 21. He was 92. Born in Middletown, Ohio, he was a resident of Yellow Springs for over 50 years. James was a wonderful father, grandfather,...
View ArticleRoosevelt envisions ‘Antioch village’
Of the thousands of institutions of higher learning represented at a recent accreditation meeting, only five were looking to be newly accredited — two tribal schools, a bible school, a cosmetology...
View ArticleGeorge Cornish
Dr. George G. Cornish of North Port, Fla, died on May 25. He was 90. Dr. Cornish was born on March 6, 1923, the only child of Frank and Naomi Cornish of Carrollton, Ohio. After graduating from...
View ArticlePE teacher Sarah Lowe to retire— Caring for the whole person
For all teachers, developing a good relationship with students is key. But it’s especially important when it comes to teaching the touchy and highly personal topics that health teacher Sarah Lowe has...
View ArticleMay 30, 2013 Bulldog sports round-up
Six girls advance to regionals After finishing in second place at the Metro Buckeye Conference Championships in Troy just seven days earlier the Yellow Springs girls track and field team strode into...
View ArticleBasketball coach Brad Newsome retires— Winning games, molding men
Some basketball coaches are just coaches, their influence confined to the court. Brad Newsome was the other kind. In his 16 years coaching Yellow Springs High School boys basketball, Newsome not only...
View ArticleBurglary suspects indicted
Xenia residents Oliver Simons and Bianca Stone Chappelle were indicted last week by a Greene County grand jury on felony charges related to burglaries that occurred in Yellow Springs. The two former...
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