Articles About Yellow Springs Community Children's Center

• Turner steps into director role at YSCCC

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 3, 2023

  

  A Columbus native now living in Springfield, Turner has been part of the staff of the Children’s Center since 2018, and replaces former director Dana Zackey after serving as Zackey’s assistant director since last summer.

• 2022 In Review | Education & Sports

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 2, 2023

  

  This year in education and athletics around Yellow Springs: The Facilities Committee was formed, young thespians staged a number of blockbuster performances, 30 students graduated from Antioch College, The Antioch School celebrated its centennial and more.

• Zackey settles in at YS Community Children’s Center

  By Lauren ShowsJune 17, 2022

  

  Though she’s only been at the helm of the YS Community Children’s Center for about three weeks, new Director Dana Zackey told the News this week that she’s settling in at the 75-year-old village school and making it feel like home.

• Director Malissa Doster bids farewell to Children’s Center

  By Jessica ThomasMay 29, 2022

  

  After nearly five years of meeting goals and setting new ones, Doster has stepped down as the director of the center, or YSCCC.

• COVID closes YS Community Children’s Center again

  By Reilly DixonNovember 10, 2021

  

  The Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center announced Monday, Nov. 8, that it was closing its doors temporarily for the second time in three months due to COVID-19.

• COVID cases prompt temporary closure at YS Community Children’s Center

  By Carol SimmonsSeptember 1, 2021

  

  Emotions are frayed among families and staff affiliated with the Yellow Springs Children’s Center, which has closed its doors until Sept. 7 in response to an outbreak of COVID-19 among students and teachers.

• 2020 Year in Review: Village Schools

  By Carol SimmonsJanuary 7, 2021

  

  Calendar year 2020 began and ended with Yellow Springs school district leaders discussing identified structural needs in the local school buildings and how to address them, but the majority of the year was occupied by the district’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• YSCCC now enrolls the ‘littles’

  By Audrey HackettApril 11, 2019

  

  Cuteness alert: there are new babies in town. Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, or YSCCC, now accepts infants aged six weeks to 17 months as part of its recently created infant program, which opened in November.

• New director at YS Community Children’s Center

  By YS News StaffNovember 27, 2017

  

  Malissa Doster is the new executive director of the Yellow Springs Community Children Center.

• A day for community giving

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 23, 2017

  

  After collecting $75,000 in a single day last November, an effort to raise money for local nonprofit groups is returning to the village for a second year this holiday season.