The room is filled with shouts and “ooofs!” and the sound of punches making contact. One young girl tries to strangle a boy twice her size while a boy who has just been kicked in the stomach, groans and rolls over onto his side. A girl two feet away aims a powerful punch at another boy’s jaw.

Antioch University McGregor President Barbara Gellman-Danley will leave her position in August to work for the Ohio Board of Regents, according to an Antioch University press statement released Tuesday.

At Village Planning Commission’s meeting Monday, July 14, Birch III developer Mark Bertke requested feedback on an idea to build attached multiplex homes in the partially developed neighborhood on the south end of town.

Fear of snakes is common, but visitors who have held gentle Pepper, the black rat snake who resides at Glen Helen’s Trailside Museum, know that most local snakes are harmless.

Antioch College supporters still have reason to feel concerned about the safety of the recent campus shutdown, according to a college alumnus and fire safety expert. “If everyone has the idea that Antioch buildings are protected by sprinkler systems, that’s false,” said Gene Milgram of Annapolis, Md., in an interview last week. Milgram, an alumnus […]

The Indians took a pair of games from the Yankees on Monday, July 14, to overtake the Yankees and move into second place behind the Pirates to start off the final two weeks of the 2008 season.

We had a ton of children last Friday. I was surprised. I had expected turnout to be thin because of the 4th of July layover — we didn’t have t-ball Friday night, July 4, so there was a two-week break between t-ball nights, nor our usual one.

Charles Theodore Christophe(r) of Yellow Springs, Ohio, died on July 13. He was 90. Friends may call at the Jackson Lytle Williams Funeral Home, 322 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs, from 5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, July 17.

Austin L. Pitstick of Springfield passed away Thursday, July, 10. He was 11. He was born Oct. 4, 1996, to Matthew Pitstick and Janene Edinger in Xenia.

Edith M. Kelley, formerly of Saint Paris, passed away at 3:50 p.m., on Thursday, July 10, in the Friends Care Center, Yellow Springs. She was 94.