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.

At the Feb. 7 Village Council meeting, a citizen urged the Village to reconsider its tree-trimming policy in the wake of the recent ice storm that knocked out power for 80 percent of village homes.

The Village budget for the 2011 general fund is slightly leaner than last year’s budget, with anticipated expenses down 1.6 percent from 2010.