Joanna Meier Correspondent Yellow Springs News P.O. Box 187 Yellow Springs, OH United States Tel: 00 + 1 + 937 + 767-7373

Last Saturday Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, the former superintendent of Pittsburgh schools, spoke on the American educational crisis at an event cosponsored by the Antioch College Morgan Fellows and the Yellow Springs public schools.

The Village is exploring the technical requirements for a 2 to 5 megawatt solar photovoltaic array that may be built in the Village. In a conference call this week, plans were made to study the Village’s electric distribution system before Council discusses SolarVision’s proposal at its March 22 meeting.

The fourth in a series of fireside readings at Antioch College features three young creative writers pursuing their Ph.D.s at the University of Cincinnati — Rachel Steiger-Meister, Katherine Zlabek and Michelle Burke. They will read on Sunday, March 6, at 2 p.m. at the Coretta Scott King Center on the Antioch campus.

The Mills Lawn all-school musical Bollywood Jungle Book premieres Saturday, March 5, at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday, at 2 p.m. Both shows take place at the Paul Robeson Performing Arts Center at Central State University.

At 12:30 p.m. today a man attempted a bank robbery at US Bank.

Last Saturday’s district tournament performances showed that juniors Erika Chick and Elizabeth Malone are getting even faster in victorious swims.

Valeska Lynne (Appleberry) Lindner, 68, died Feb. 11 at her home in Fort Collins, Colo. She was 68.

A gathering in memory of the life of Irwin Abrams will be held Sunday, March 13, at 3 p.m. in the Friends Care Center dining room.

Four teachers with long and distinguished tenure in the Yellow Springs schools gave notice of their resignations at the end of the current school year.