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  • Antioch College: Couple donates historic building

    Villagers Dr. Esther and David Battle recently donated their multi-use historic building at 403 Xenia Ave. to Antioch College. The Battles have owned the building for more than 30 years, and seek to benefit Antioch College with the gift, which also includes a historic preservation conservation easement through Tecumseh Land Trust. Antioch plans to sell the property. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Villagers Dr. Esther and David Battle recently donated their historic downtown building at 403 Xenia Avenue to Antioch College.

  • Dayton ‘Media and Democracy’ event — Journalists oppose Cox Media sale

    A panel of journalists, politicians and educators aired their concerns about the proposed sale of Cox Media, which owns the Dayton Daily News and WHIO TV and radio, to a private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, during an event on the University of Dayton campus on Monday, July 29. Speaking is Tom Roberts, a former state legislator and past president of the Ohio Conference of the NAACP. To his right is Kevin Smith of Ohio University’s journalism school, former Dayton Daily News reporter Jim DeBrosse, UD political science professor Joel Pruce, veteran journalist Bob Daley, Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (obscured), Yosef Getachew of Common Cause and Catherine Turcer of Common Cause Ohio. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Private equity firms now own more than one-third of major news outlets in the U.S. Working journalists have declined by half in a decade. And half of all Americans don’t get news from the community in which they live. 

  • Young entrepreneurship — Friends launch DIY clothing line

    Friends Lucas Hudson and Zoren Egea-Kaleda, who this summer launched an original brand they call Soupçon, will present their new fashion line of silk-screened T-shirts and one-of-a-kind clothing items at a pop-up show Friday, Aug. 2, from noon to 7 p.m., at Wildflower Boutique downtown. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Friends Lucas Hudson and Zoren Egea-Kaleda  knew that launching a new DIY brand from Zoren’s basement bedroom would present a variety of challenges.

  • Antioch College — Kevin McGruder new academic affairs VP

    Associate Professor of History Kevin McGruder steps into the role of vice president of academic affairs at Antioch Collage later this month, replacing Lori Collins-Hall in that position. A tenured faculty member, McGruder was hired by the college in 2012. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    A widely respected history professor at Antioch College is stepping into a new role. Associate Professor of History Kevin McGruder has been named vice president of academic affairs at the college, replacing Lori Collins-Hall.

  • Scenes from the Greene County Fair — Rabbit costume contest

    Last Wednesday during the Greene County Fair was the 4-H-sponsored rabbit costume contest — in which youngsters and their pet rabbits dress in tandem, themed costumes.

  • Decent ascent

    Evan Galarza, Mateo Basora and Sameer Sajabi fire a rocket into the deep blue. (Photo by Kathleen Galarza)

    On Thursday, July 25, the Yellow Springs Public Library put on “This Really is Rocket Science!” for youth in grades five and up.

  • Lauren Bales Heaton

    Lauren Bales Heaton with Tucker

    Lauren Bales Heaton

  • Yankees triumph in post-season tourney

    The Nipper’s Corner Yankees were this year’s Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Minor League champions, winning Saturday’s championship game 19–8 over the Sam and Eddie’s Open Books Brewers. From left, top row, are Head Coach Patrick Lake and assistant coaches Mark Breza and Derek Barker; middle row: Emery Fodal, Noelle Fisher, Sameer Sajabi, Ella Fodal, Henry Lake and Aiden Gustafson; bottom row: Marco Meyer, Nierin Barker, Nico Sajabi, Zander Breza and Kyu Flateau. Not pictured: Assistant Coach Brian Machi, Vincent Machi and David Scott Jr. (Photo by Jeanna GunderKline)

    The Nipper’s Corner Yankees made a clean sweep of the 2019 Minor League championships with a 19–8 win over the Sam and Eddie’s Open Books Brewers in the post-season championship game on Saturday, July 27.

  • News reporter Lauren Heaton dies

    Lauren Bales Heaton

    Lifetime villager and longtime Yellow Springs News reporter Lauren Heaton died on Sunday morning, July 28, 2019.

  • Invasive of the month— climbing vines

    Two invasives: Wintercreeper/euonymus, left, and Asian bittersweet, right, are two non-native invasive climbing vines widespread in Yellow Springs. (Photos by Audrey Hackett)

    If you see something green in winter, it’s probably wintercreeper, a non-native invasive species of euonymus. Asian bittersweet is a little harder to identify. It’s most noticeable in the fall, when its leaves are off and bright red berries and yellow seed capsules make the plant attractive to some.

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