Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

The Yellow Springs Community Chorus and Chamber Orchestra presented a grand holiday musical spectacle with the performance of Benjamin Britten’s “St. Nicolas.”

As 2011 comes to a close, villagers were asked to tell stories of acts of kindness they witnessed or received this year. From helping lost dogs and giving impromptu singing lessons, to supporting people in times of their greatest sorrow and need, Yellow Springers reached out to one another.

Ruth L. Ricket died Wednesday, Nov. 23 at Friends Care Center. She was 91.

At their Dec. 5 meeting, Village Council members heard a request from the owners of MillWorks to purchase from the Village a strip of land near their building so that trucks could use the loading docks there.

Bobbie Jeanette Duerson Jordan died Nov. 7. She was 61.

Tuesday night saw the first sure sign of winter…

In just a few months, Yellow Springs students and teachers will join the mobile world with new wireless access to the Internet from anywhere in the schools.

PLANNING COMMISSION MEETS 7PM MONDAY NOV. 14
(Village Council meets 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 21)

This information is excerpted from the Yellow Springs News 2011 Voters’ Guide, which came with the Oct. 27 print edition. Limited copies are available for free at the News office at 253 1/2 Xenia.