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Articles From August 30th, 2019

  • More shifts at Village police

    Changes in personnel at the Yellow Springs Police Department are becoming the norm this year. Two more full-time officers either resigned or requested reduced hours last month, following the resignation of two full-time officers in February and March.

  • T-ball, a place for healing

    At last Friday’s opening t-ball game, a knot of kids scrambled for the ball in the infield of the younger kids’ diamond. (photo by Suzanne Szempruch)

    A mob of us are doing our warm-up exercises in right field -— 65 to 70 children, 40 to 45 adults.

  • New restaurant at Oten Gallery— Twist on sandwiches at Aleta’s

    Gregg Pastorelle, left, and Matthew Willis opened Aleta’s Café at the Oten Gallery this week. The new restaurant features panini sandwiches, pizza on naan bread and salads served in a relaxed, casual envrionment. A grand opening is planned for Friday, June 6, when the restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Owners of the village’s newest restaurant say the beautiful hand-built brick Oten Gallery will attract diners, but it’s the fresh, delicious food that will bring them back.

  • Patti Bates is hired as new Village manager

    Patti Bates, center, has been chosen as the new Yellow Springs Village manager, beginning on July 7. She is shown here during the reception following the May 22 candidate forum, with Rose Pelzl and Harvey Paige. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Patti Bates is excited to have been hired as the new Yellow Springs Village manager.

    “I’m really looking forward to coming to Yellow Springs, digging in and seeing what I can do to help out,” she said in an interview on Tuesday.

  • Bulldogs Walking, 2014

    Rachele Orme, Nicholas Miller-Jacobson and AnnDee Pettiford (photo by Lauren Heaton)

    57 Yellow Springs High School seniors who graduated last Thursday, May 29. As usual the high school gym was steaming, but that didn’t bother the many parents, family members and friends who cheered the graduates on. Also pictured here are valedictorian Rachel Meyer and salutatorian Zoey McKinley.

  • Marlin Newell of the Children’s Center— 25 years of hugs from our children

    Marlin Newell, executive director of the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, celebrated her 25th year as a teacher and administrator at the local daycare and preschool this week. Students pictured with Newell at the center’s playground are, from left, Christopher Goebel, Britton Stroble, Vivian Grushon and Kennedy Stroble. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Marlin Newell has been at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center for long enough that the toddlers she potty-trained and taught to walk are now returning to enroll their own children.

  • A new force for engaged democracy

    Antioch College student Guy Mathews, left, and villager Steve Deal recently co-founded a new political party, Aretê, which seeks to use online forums to create a form of popular democracy in Yellow Springs. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Crowdsourcing has been used for everything from tracking the path of meteors to coming up with new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors.

    A new local political party now sees promise in using online tools to ask villagers to solve community problems. Eventually citizens could help run the town from their computers and smartphones.

  • BLOG — Coach Jimmy is back!

    Coach Jimmy warming up with the kids before t-ball last Friday night. (photos by Suzanne Szempruch)

    Today’s blog showcases the first night of t-ball at Gaunt Park! Coach Jimmy was gone most of last year due to a head injury. Everyone was so excited to have him back!

  • YSAC grapples with funding loss

    Yellow Springs Arts Council Board President Jerome Borchers, top left, is shown with the group’s part-time employees, clockwise from top right, Holly Underwood, Lara Bauer and Nancy Mellon. Since the Morgan Foundation last year cut back on funding, the arts group is finding new ways to sustain itself, including an online fundraising effort to pay rent for its gallery. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    It’s been a year since the Morgan Foundation announced its suspension of about $1 million in annual grants to local and regional agencies. While the funding loss cut a swath through local nonprofits, the Yellow Springs Arts Council, or YSAC, was hit hardest, as the organization in recent years relied on the foundation for most of its operating costs.

  • Adele Mary Kelble

    Obituary

    Adele Mary Kelble, of Xenia, was called to the side of her Lord on June 3. She was 76. Adele was preceded in death by her son Michael Kelble (Rosa ), of Laredo, Texas; brother Richard Snelling; sister Eileen Meyers and brother Greg Snelling. Cherishing her memory are her children, Nick Kelble(Anne) of Winston Salem, […]

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