Yellow Springs Year in Review: Village Schools
The local schools’ growing expertise with project-based learning, or PBL, was recognized in October when Yellow Springs students and teachers traveled to northern Ohio to Lakeland Community College,...
View ArticleYellow Springs Year in Review: Village council
2015 was a year of spirited discussions regarding whether the Village should continue its membership in the Greene County ACE Task Force, a special police unit that focuses on drug-related crime....
View ArticleYellow Springs Year in Review: Letter writers of 2015
The News team thanks the following letter writers for sharing their concerns, opinions and observations during 2015. —Diane Chiddister Lisa Abel Sue Abendroth Amy Blount Achor Randy Allen Kate Anderson...
View ArticleDaryn Straley
Daryn Straley, 44, of Athens, Ohio, was taken suddenly from this life on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, following a car accident. He is lovingly remembered as an adoring “papa” and husband, a nature...
View ArticleYellow Springs Year in Review: births and deaths in 2015
Births Bella Serene Willis Foster James Woehrle Evelyn Marie Schmidt Jayden Christopher Holt Maya Lindsey Bergman Byrnes Simon Joseph Bongorno Seth David Peirson Baby girl Till Deaths Marilyn Dowdell...
View ArticleYellow Springs Year in Review: Village Life
Perhaps not surprisingly, issues of social justice and environmental sustainability captured the attention of many villagers in 2015. The local chapter of Black Lives Matter, launched in autumn 2014,...
View ArticleYellow Springs Year in Review: higher education
A shift for Antioch College 2015 was a year of transition for Antioch College, with the reborn college graduating its first class of students just after its first president, Mark Roosevelt, announced...
View ArticleNew year’s sphere
Villagers cheered as the ball dropped, then dropped again, lights flashing, at midnight on New Year’s Eve over Short Street. Lance Rudegeair operated the delicate machinery as revelers thronged...
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Sliding into home
Unhindered by the snowless sledding hills, Mikey Trelawny-Cassity makes his own fun in Gaunt Park on the baseball diamond, which had retained a very enjoyable amount of snow. Mikey and brother Sammy...
View ArticleBulldog Sports Round-up — Jan. 14, 2015
Swimming On Saturday, Jan. 9, the YSHS Bulldog swim team competed in and won their second swim meet of the 2015–2016 season. The West Carrollton Quad Meet was held at the West Carrollton YMCA, with...
View ArticleNipper on leave, wife arrested— BCI investigates YSPD officer
Last week Village leaders announced that the most senior member of the Yellow Springs police department was placed on administrative leave two weeks ago due to an ongoing investigation into a charge of...
View ArticleBanner day
Mills Lawn School third graders proudly presented banners they’d woven from recycled materials to Principal Matt Housh for the beautification of their school’s front entrance. More than 40 students...
View ArticleYour mission? Count every bird
It sounded like an impossible task: count every bird in Glen Helen and beyond. Birds like the tiny golden-crowned kinglet, barely bigger than a hummingbird, and the great blue heron, a solitary dweller...
View ArticleJan. 14, 2016 Bulldog Sports Round-up
SWIMMING On Saturday, Jan. 9, the YSHS Bulldog swim team competed in and won their second swim meet of the 2015–2016 season. The West Carrollton Quad Meet was held at the West Carrollton YMCA, with...
View ArticleWorld-class cellist, local roots
Yellow Springs, already a highly musical village, counts a Swiss classical music star as part of its family circle. Switzerland’s Chiara Enderle, whose family has deep roots in the Yellow Springs...
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Local artists show abstracts at Winds
Collaboration was inevitable. Two talented painters who verged on similar styles in a town that bubbles with creative juices would no doubt cross swords either in peace or conflict one of these days,...
View ArticleBanner day at Mills Lawn School
Mills Lawn School third graders proudly presented banners they’d woven from recycled materials to Principal Matt Housh for the beautification of their school’s front entrance. More than 40 students...
View ArticleStore finds success in runes — Catering to the metaphysical
Chalk it up to the numinous power radiating from the area or the loyalty of the store’s fanbase, but the House of Ravenwood is on a roll. Yellow Springs’ premier “metaphysical rock shop” recently...
View ArticleA benefit bee for midwives-to-be
Two friends from Yellow Springs are answering a call to midwifery — and hoping for helping hands to aid the work of their own. Pamela Williams and Ash Dasuqi will head to El Paso, Texas, in February to...
View ArticleAUM workshops explore racism
Antioch University Midwest will host a two-part workshop this month devoted to exploring societal issues of racism and justice, and how those issues are tied to an individual’s perceptions of self and...
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