Articles From March 2011

  • Little town, big chamber music series

    Chamber Music Yellow Springs will launch its 25th year with the Daedelus Quartet on Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church on Xenia Avenue. Pictured above at the church are longtime CMYS organizers, from left, Jane Baker, Mary T. White, Mary Fahrenbruck and Bruce Bradtmiller.

    In the world of chamber music, Chamber Music Yellow Springs can play with the big boys. “When I go to the Chamber Music America Conference [the national association of chamber music presenters and performers]….”

  • Village crews commended on recovery job well done

    The Village crews did an outstanding job getting the town’s electric system up and running after last week’s wind storm, Interim Village Manager John Weithofer said at the Village Council meeting on Thursday, Sept. 18.

  • New Antioch College pro tem board members named

    The Antioch College Alumni Board recently named three new members of the pro tem board for an independent Antioch College. The three new board members, Terry Herndon of Massachusetts, Rozell Nesbitt of Chicago and Edward Richard of California…

  • For the Schwerners, life after YS, WYSO

    Longtime Yellow Springs resident Steve Schwerner, who has hosted a jazz program on WYSO Public Radio for 50 years, since he was an Antioch College student, will host his last WYSO show Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. Schwerner and his wife, Nancy, will move to Brooklyn soon to be near their children and grandchildren. Schwerner is pictured above in the WYSO studio hosting his program.

    When he was a student at Antioch College, Steve Schwerner was sure to get co-ops that would bring him back to his hometown, New York City, so he could hang out in jazz clubs as much as possible.

  • Bulldog Sports Roundup

    YSHS exchange student Anders Ingebrigtsen and senior Amelia Tarpey were named the 2008 Homecoming king and queen last Friday night., Sept. 19, at halftime ceremonies. The Bulldogs beat the Ridgemont Gophers 23–22 in an exciting Homecoming game in which the Bulldogs pulled out a last-minute win with a field goal by Joe Fugate.

    The Bulldog football team lost 33–20 to the Marion Catholic Irish on Sept. 12, but came away from the game on Friday, Sept. 19, with an exciting 23–22 Homecoming victory against the Ridgemont Gophers.

  • Berthena Louden

    Berthena M. Louden, of Memphis, Tenn., and formerly of Springfield, died Sept. 12. She was 95. She was a retired employee of the State of Ohio Bureau of Workman’s Compensation.

  • Wind wallops YS; villagers rally in aftermath

    Big winds from Hurricane Ike slammed into Yellow Springs on Sunday, leaving uprooted trees, such as one that landed on the Walnut Street home of Chris and Cindy Mucher.

    Shortly after the lights came on in downtown Yellow Springs Tuesday noon, Mark DeLozier, sitting at the piano that had been dragged from inside the Emporium out to the sidewalk, launched into “On the Sunny Side of the Street.”

  • MLS start time to be reconsidered

    Faced with state cutbacks on teacher in-service days and an inequity in planning time between Mills Lawn teachers and their counterparts at Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School, Superintendent Norm Glismann believes he has figured out a solution to a lack of Mills Lawn teacher planning time.

  • Mitzi Manny, a heart lifted by music

    A community potluck on Saturday, Sept. 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. will honor Mitzi Manny, who will celebrate her 90th birthday. The event will take place at the Senior Center great room.

    Mitzi Manny swipes her 15-pound accordion out of its tattered case as though it were a ragdoll and slips her arms through the straps like an old friend. She sways just slightly as the squeeze box sings out “When I Grow Too Old to Dream,” and the two look fit to be together.

  • Feature photo: A mighty wind

    Big winds from Hurricane Ike slammed into Yellow Springs on Sunday. Power was out for about 42 hours downtown. But villagers made the best of a bad situation: local musicians entertained the caffeinated crowd at the Emporium on Tuesday morning. Shown, from left, are Carl Schumacher and Dave Schumacher on guitar and Mark DeLozier and Elizabeth Price at the piano.

    Copies of this and other photographs may be purchased from the Yellow Springs News; please contact us via e-mail at ysnews {at} ysnews(.)com, or by phone, between 9:30 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m., Mon.–Fri.

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