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Articles About Community Children's Center

  • Institutions adapt to COVID-19

    By Megan BachmanJuly 22, 2020

    The News spoke with leaders at a variety of local institutions who are adapting to a new normal in the fifth month of the coronavirus pandemic, including the Yellow Springs Senior Center, Friends Care Community, Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, Antioch College Wellness Center and the John Bryan Center/Youth Center.

  • Little ups and downs

    By YS News StaffOctober 13, 2016

    Life’s little ups and downs

  • Mudpuppies: Children’s Center visits John Bryan Pottery

    By Guest ContributorAugust 4, 2016

    Pictured above. from left, are Ethan Goodman, Devon Townsend, Alicia Lindsay and Evelyn Gauden, glazing their fragile pinch pot-inspired shakers and imagining what the glaze will look like after firing. (Photo submitted by Karly Strukamp)

    Seven children from the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center spent a week learning the ins and outs of pottery and ceramics at John Bryan Pottery.

  • Children’s Center anniversary event— 70 years of lessons and play

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanMay 12, 2016

    Kids at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center recently enjoyed themselves outside on the playground, part of the school’s philosophy of letting kids take the initiaitive and turn lessons into “teaching play.” The center is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a party on Thursday, May 12. “Almost everyone in town has some kind of connection to the Children’s Center,” said Mary Stukenberg, the center’s interim director. “It will be a feel-good celebration.” Pictured are, from left, Braden Derrickson, Evelyn Shotts, Vivian Smith, Hendrix Duncan, Lilly Brown and Danny Demmy. (Submitted photo )

    On Thursday, May 12, the Children’s Center will be throwing a party to celebrate its 70 years of care.

  • Children’s Center hires new director— Lowry initiates swift changes

    By Lauren HeatonAugust 20, 2015

    Last month the Community Children’s Center hired Rebecca Lowry of Beavercreek as the new executive director. She has 37 years experience teaching and leading in public schools and will pursue a master’s in business while serving the Yellow Springs community. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)

    Last month, nearly a year after the Community Children’s Center lost its director, the local preschool and daycare hired Rebecca Lowry as its new executive director.

  • A new energy at Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center

    By Lauren HeatonMarch 26, 2015

    Students at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, from left, Brooklyn Markgraf, Neveah Plambeck, Dylan Cole and Lilly Brown, planted shamrocks in the school yard on Monday in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day this week. The center is working hard to recover from several years of financial hardship and has recently welcomed two new interim directors and five new board members, all with extensive nonprofit management experience. (Submitted photo by Andrea Seigel-Hall)

    The process of bringing the the Children’s Center from the brink of insolvency has not been without its challenges. But the affordable, all-day early childhood education that the school has long offered is too vital to the community to abandon.

  • Children’s Center forges a new plan

    By Lauren HeatonDecember 25, 2014

    These Community Children’s Center supporters are planning a revitalization of the village’s only full-time early childhood education resource. Pictured at the center this week are, from left, administrator Samantha Seimer with Nevaeh Plambeck, board member Sarah Siff with her son, Harvey, Braden Derrickson, Ella Fodal, teacher Andrea Seigal-Hall, Evan Botkin and teacher Naomi Hyatt. (Photo by Lauren Heaton)

    The Yellow Springs Children’s Center has been under severe duress this past year, with unprecedentedly low enrollment, 18 consecutive months of deficit spending, and the prospect of depleting its cash reserves sometime in 2015.

  • Children’s Center head let go

    By Lauren HeatonAugust 28, 2014

    Marlin Newell’s last day as director of the Children’s Center is Aug. 31. (News archive photo by Megan Bachman)

    A teacher at the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center said this week that YSCC Director Marlin Newell was fired by the board of trustees on Monday, Aug. 18. Newell had been on vacation, teacher EJ Waskiewicz said, when two board members asked her to sign a termination letter. Newell asked that Waskiewicz act as a witness to the event.

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

    By Megan BachmanJune 12, 2014

    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.

  • BLOG – Mud Day

    By Suzanne SzempruchJuly 1, 2013

    Today’s blog showcases the Mud Day at the Children Community Center on Friday.

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