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  • Bulldog Theatre Festival — Two plays address timely issues

    By Guest ContributorNovember 8, 2018

    Yellow Springs High School/McKinney School performing arts teacher Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp directed students in English teacher Desiree Nickell’s class as they studied “Romeo and Juliet” recently. From left to right are students Dezmond Wilson, Matt Duncan, Carina Basora and Vera Roberts. Shakespeare’s classic work is one of two plays being performed as part of the Bulldog Theatre Festival. The first play, “Girls Like That,” runs Nov. 2–4; “Romeo and Juliet” is the following weekend, Nov. 9–11.(Submitted photo by Desiree Nickel)

    The two productions — one contemporary, one classical — on the docket for this fall’s Bulldog Theater Festival deal with social pressure, expectations and violence.

  • Hometown candidate — DeWine aims for top state office

    By Megan Bachman

    Mike DeWine and family gathers in the Glen for a photo that was used in a 1980 campaign ad that ran in the News when he ran for state senator. From left are John, Mike, wife Fran, Brian, Becky, Pat and Jill DeWine. (News archive photo)

    As the Ohio gubernatorial race comes to a close, Republican candidate Mike DeWine is already looking to get back to a favorite activity after the campaign, win or lose: taking in a movie with his wife at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs.

  • Tecumseh Land Trust to host resource fair

    By Gary McBride

    The Jacoby Greenbelt west of the village contains the largest concentration of properties that the Village, working with the Tecumseh Land Trust, hopes to preserve permanently as agricultural and conservation land. (Map by YS News; data courtesy of Tecumseh Land Trust)

    Land and water preservation and management, soil conservation and other environmental matters will be explored at the Landowner Resource Fair hosted by the Tecumseh Land Trust this weekend. 

  • School board — Deficit spending predicted

    By Carol Simmons

    If the revenue and expenditures of Yellow Springs Schools continue this year as projected, the district will end the 2018–19 fiscal year with a $126,000 drop in its reserves, according to district Treasurer Dawn Bennett.

  • A good year for new Friends Care director

    By Diane Chiddister

    Mike Montgomery has been director of the Friends Care Community for almost a year, having begun in early December 2017. Since beginning the job, he's most proud of making some changes that contributed to raising staff morale, and adding new staff. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    While Mike Montgomery is the executive director of Friends Care Community, he takes a modest position regarding how critical he is to the functioning of the local continuing care center.

  • Mary Donahoe

    By YS News Staff

    Mary Donahoe passed away with beauty, grace and gratitude at midnight on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018.

  • School ghouls

    By Robert HasekNovember 1, 2018

    Miserable Halloween weather couldn’t dampen the spirits (pun intended) of Mills Lawn School students, who displayed a wealth of creativity. (Photo by Robert Hasek)

    Miserable Halloween weather couldn’t dampen the spirits (pun intended) of Mills Lawn School students, who displayed a wealth of holiday spirit and creativity.

  • Senior rentals move forward

    By Diane Chiddister

    Home, Inc. leaders recently presented plans and designs for their proposed 54-unit senior affordable rental housing project, to be located between East Marshall and East Herman streets and across from Friends Care Community. If funding comes through for the project, those 55 and older whose income is up to 60 percent of area median income, or about $27,000 for a single person, will be eligible to rent an apartment. (Rendering courtesy of Home, Inc.)

    A significant senior affordable rental project more than 10 years in the making is moving forward, according to Home, Inc. leaders at a recent community meeting.

  • Fleury Velie Mackie

    By YS News Staff

    Fleury Velie Mackie and her roadster.

    Fleury Velie Mackie, 1926–2018, died Aug. 26, peacefully, after a year-long illness, at home in Princeton, N.J.

  • November 1, 2018 Bulldog Sports Roundup

    By YS News Staff

    The YSHS girls varsity volleyball finished the year with an 18–2 record in the regular season and two tournament victories. Here the team gathered one last time, losing in the district finals. From left is Aaliyah Longshaw, Tyler Linkhart, Ateerys Wagner, Annlyn Foster, Alex Ronnebaum, Olivia Snoddy, Emma Ronnebaum ; front row, Angelina Smith and Ava Schell. (Submitted photo by Kasey Linkhart)

    November 1, 2018 Bulldog Sports Roundup

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