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Articles About Yellow Springs High School :: Page 4

  • Wheels of fortune

    By YS News StaffDecember 21, 2017

    Shaylee Smith rolls with light ghosts, an artifact of the photo time exposure and disco lighting. (Photos by Matt Minde)

    The YSHS gymnasium was converted over the weekend into a pay-to-skate roller rink, the senior project of Aza Hurwitz and Jonah Trillana, who conceived of the fundraiser that the school might purchase roller skates of its own.

  • School board meeting— State report card discussed

    By Audrey HackettNovember 30, 2017

    While Yellow Springs received mixed grades on the 2016–2017 Ohio school report card, district leaders remain skeptical that the report card system delivers meaningful data about local schools.

  • Sinking feeling

    By Diane ChiddisterOctober 26, 2017

    The first Bulldog Theater Festival kicks off this weekend with “The Last Lifeboat,” directed by Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp, which tells the story of the man who built, and then survived, the sinking of the Titanic. Shown above at a rehearsal are the principals, from left, top: Raina Kraus, Pete Freeman, Liam Hackett. Below: Keira Hendricks, Delia Hallett, Julia Hoff, and Elyah Naziri. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    This weekend and next, the McKinney and YSHS theater departments will present the first Bulldog Theater Festival.

  • BLOG–Enacting MLK’s Beloved Community: Yellow Springs Edition

    By Aaron Maurice SaariSeptember 21, 2017

    What began with a community meeting in 2015 is culminating in a six-week journey this fall. Do we have the communal will to be in significant relationships with refugees and Muslims in the greater-Dayton area? 

  • Ready, set, teach …

    By Carol SimmonsAugust 31, 2017

    The newest faculty members for Yellow Springs School District, from left, they are Chelsee McFarland, who is teaching second grade; Tamara Morrison, high school math; Ryan Montross, sixth-grade science; and Olivia Dishmon, the new intervention specialist at Mills Lawn. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The newest faculty members for Yellow Springs School District gathered in the morning last Friday for some computer system orientation in anticipation of the first day of school Friday, Aug. 25.

  • School facilities question— One town builds, one does not

    By Diane ChiddisterAugust 17, 2017

    In the past 10 or so years, every school district in Greene County, except Yellow Springs, has either already built new school buildings or passed a levy to do so soon. The same is true for each district contiguous to the Yellow Springs schools.

  • Net Gain

    By YS News Staff

    Alumnae volleyball players: pictured are, top row, from left: Tyler Linkhart, Julian Roberts, Emma Burns, Maya Hardman, Dede Cheetom, Alex Ronnebaum, Emma Ronnebaum, Tracy Clark, Meredith Rowe, Jessi Worsham and Nia Stewart. Bottom: Kelsie Lemons, Elle Peifer, Payden Kegley, Hannah Brown, Ellyson Kumbusky, Liz Smith and Raven James. (Submitted photo)

    YSHS students Kelsie Lemons and Elle Peifer recently organized and hosted an alumni volleyball game and fundraiser for women’s sports at YSHS.

  • BLOG — Ms. Mac: Ever Our Teacher

    By Aaron Maurice SaariAugust 16, 2017

    Mary Mcdonald, aka Ms. Mac.

    Now that Ms. Mary McDonald — Ms. Mac — has passed on and the legal statute of limitations has run out, I can tell a story that underscores the point about how she helped students take important risks.

  • School board — Mills Lawn ends ILE program

    By Carol SimmonsAugust 3, 2017

    The longstanding Interest Learning Education Program, or ILE, at Mills Lawn, which arose out of former gifted programming at the elementary school, will be discontinued with the start of the new academic year, according to Superintendent Mario Basora.

  • ‘Community Pulse’ meeting— YS school facilities discussed

    By Carol SimmonsJuly 27, 2017

    About 50 villagers heard from a panel of eight Yellow Springs School district teachers and shared their ideas, questions and concerns on the future of the district’s school buildings Tuesday, July 11, at Mills Lawn School.