What have we gotten ourselves into? That is what I’m wondering, as I look at all the wonderful submissions of animal companions.

The tradition of “clapping out” graduating sixth-graders involves them walking a friendly gauntlet through the school halls past clapping, hooting and cheering kids, on their way back to their MLS classrooms for the last time.

McKinney school students celebrated their graduation to status of high schoolers last Thursday, May 31.

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What are the Seniors saying this year? Do you know who said what?

The air was filled with anticipation, the lawn filled with students Wednesday afternoon, May 23, as Mills Lawn School emptied for the ceremonial unveiling of the new school sign.

This month in separate but coordinated moves, Derrick Weston was hired as the new pastor of the First Presbyterian Church as well as the new director of Antioch College’s Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom.

Yellow Springs resident Judy Belle Jones quietly died Friday April 27. She was 79 years old.

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 7-11, 2012.

When in 1980 local artist Nancy Howell-Koehler needed a portrait taken for her new book, it didn’t seem appropriate that she — a fine art photographer — hire someone to do it. So she devised a way to take a self-portrait using a long shutter release cord. Later, she used the same method to take photos of Yellow Springers.