Even as a newbie, I should not have been surprised at the community’s overwhelmingly compassionate reaction to a recent raid on a nearby no-kill shelter.

The third Antioch College Fireside reading will feature writers Gariot Louima and T.J. Jarrett, reading short fiction and poetry on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m.

Feb. 24, 2011 Bulldog Sports Roundup

This week a Friends Care Community task force announced plans to sell the Barr property, which the Morgan Family Foundation had gifted to the care center in November.

Cemex, Inc. agreed to pay a $1.4 million fine for Clean Air Act violations at its cement plant off of Dayton-Yellow Springs Road in Fairborn.

Four members of Antioch College’s first entering class of 25 students have been chosen during the school’s early admissions process.

Dr. Eleanor Marks Pao, of Fayetteville, N.Y., died Saturday, Feb. 5, following a long illness. She was 88.

The Yellow Springs News won the top prize in its division at last week’s annual Ohio Newspaper Association convention in Columbus.

Mary E. Burris died Saturday, Feb. 19. She was 80.

Village Council at its Feb. 7 meeting unanimously approved entering into a lease with villager Mitchell George for a new business located at the former site of Stutzman’s Nursery on U.S. 68 North.