Lauren Bales Heaton pictured here with the original Newshound, Tucker.

In memory of native villager and longtime Yellow Springs News reporter Lauren Heaton, the News has established a fund in conjunction with the Yellow Springs Community Foundation for an annual scholarship, to be awarded annually in her name to a qualifying Yellow Springs High School senior pursuing studies in journalism. Heaton, who died in 2019 at the age of 44, worked at the local paper for 15 years as a reporter, associate editor, columnist and photographer.

To find out more about Lauren, read some of her writing and see some of her photos for the News, please click this link: https://ysnews.com/?p=84391.

To donate to the fund, please click on this link: https://yscf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?funit_id=1891

You can also donate on Giving Tuesday, December 3, via this link: https://yscf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create?grant_id=3079