The McKinney and Yellow Springs High School winter sports awards ceremony will take place on Monday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at YSHS. Coaches will honor the middle school and high school girls and boys basketball teams and the swimming team and award athletes with their Metro Buckeye Conference honors as well as recognize players […]

Walking down Xenia Avenue in early spring, particularly after such a tough February, is much kinder to the soul than driving through Los Angeles traffic, or walking a red carpet. We’re glad to be home from our Oscar adventure, grateful to our beloved hometown for all the support. We heard the Little Art was packed. Friends and neighbors have been asking what it was like. I’ll do my best to answer that question here.

Lauren Sheets danced as Scott Lee of Kettering played and sang outside Brother Bear’s.

Rickey Dean Godwin Sr. of Yellow Springs, formerly of Troy, died at his home on Thursday, March 4, 2010, surrounded by his family and friends.

Don Thomas McAllister of Yellow Springs died at Kettering Medical Center on Thursday, March 4, with his wife of 55 years, Patty, at his side. He was 78.

The Yellow Springs boys basketball team proved itself a contender outside the confines of the Metro Buckeye league by beating the sixth seed Springfield Catholic Central 55–53 in the Division IV sectional on Wednesday, March 3. And in an upset 40–37 loss to the fifth seeds, Franklin Monroe, on Friday, that’s where the advance stopped.

A memorial service will be held on March 13 for Jo Ann Molk, who died in February. The memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. in the Glen Helen Building.

David Stanley McLellan, a retired professor of political science at Miami University and the author of several books about international affairs, died Sunday, Feb. 21, at his home in Yellow Springs. He was 85.

Hellen O’Neal McCray, Freedom Rider, Springfield City elementary school teacher, Wilberforce University professor and civil rights and community activist, died Feb. 24 at 10:45 a.m. after a year’s battle with cancer. She was 68.

The high school swimming season ended this past weekend with Erika Chick and Elizabeth Malone’s combined scores giving Yellow Springs a 13th place finish. Chick, a sophomore, brought home two bronze medals from the State meet. Chick placed third in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:53.03. She also finished third in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:03.03.

Elizabeth Malone, also a sophomore, placed 10th overall in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:00.15 and 12th in the 200 IM with a time of 2:12.71. For the fifth time in 10 years, the Bulldog boys basketball team finished its regular season in first place in the Metro Buckeye Conference with an 11–1 league record and a 15–3 season record, putting the team in a class with just a handful of other teams in the school’s history. The girls basketball team lost 73-36 to Franklin-Monroe in their first tournament game. Amber Dudgeon had 14 points and Maryah Martin put up 12.