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Yellow Springs lost an additional 7.3 percent of its population in the last decade, continuing a 40-year population plummet.

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  • New grants for Agraria —  Kids get the dirt on soil education

    By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

    Mills Lawn third-graders Emery Fodal and Wyatt Fagan counted soil invertebrates using Berlese Funnels at Agraria last spring. They also kept data on soil temperature levels over a four-week period at the farm. (Submitted photo by Peg Morgan)

    The architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller often used a metaphor to illustrate how small targeted actions can move massive systems. Fuller noted that the “trim tab,” a tiny mechanism of a ship’s rudder, can change the ship’s course with a minute movement. At the Agraria Center for Regenerative Agriculture, soil is seen as that “trim tab.”

  • Live from Mills Lawn, it’s Tuesday morning!

    By Guest Contributor

    Mills Lawn student Aiden Gustafson works the camera as, from left, Stella Platt, Gabriella Kibblewhite and Tiger Collins get ready to broadcast the news on WMLS. (Photo by Carla Steiger)

    “Good morning, amazing MLS students!” announced Mills Lawn sixth-grader Tiger Collins on a Tuesday last month. Flanked by fellow students Gabriella Kibblewhite and Stella Platt, she began broadcasting the daily news at Mills Lawn.

  • Mills Lawn School celebrates service

    By Megan Bachman

    In honor of U.S. veterans’ “sacrifice, patriotism and service to our country,” Mills Lawn students welcomed nearly 70 military men and women to the school Monday, Nov. 12, for a special program and luncheon.

    In honor of U.S. veterans’ “sacrifice, patriotism and service to our country,” Mills Lawn students welcomed nearly 70 military men and women to the school Monday, Nov. 12, for a special program and luncheon.

  • James Whitman Agna

    By YS News Staff

    James Whitman Agna

    James Whitman Agna passed away on Nov. 6, 2018, at the age of 92.

  • Village Council — Surveillance policy passed

    By Megan Bachman

    Any new surveillance technology the Yellow Springs Police Department or other municipal agency wants to use must first be approved by Council at a public hearing.

  • The Great War that transformed the village

    By Diane Chiddister

    This 1918 photo shows some of the Antioch College students who joined the Student’s Army Training Corps, a federal program in which male college students were given military training while taking college courses. To be part of the national World War I program, the college had to turn a dormitory into a military barracks. Fifty-four students took part in the training, which included marching around campus in formation. (photo courtesy of Scott Sanders, Antiochiana, Antioch College)

    On Feb. 14, 1919, the Yellow Springs News published a long list on its front page, spanning the entire length of the paper. It was the “Roll of Honor,” a list of all villagers who had served, or were serving, in the Army during the First World War, which had recently ended.

  • November 8, 2018 Bulldog Sports Roundup

    By YS News StaffNovember 8, 2018

    The Yellow Springs High School boys varsity soccer team’s seniors recently posed with their district runner-up medals and trophy. From left is David Walker, Calum Siler, Teymour Fultz, Tariq Mohammed, Dylan Rainey, Andrew Clark, Jesse Linkhart, Mateus Cussioli, and Ashton Gueth. The team had just lost a hard-fought match in the district finals, 6–4, on Oct. 25. (Submitted photo by Tracy Clark)

    November 8, 2018 Bulldog Sports Roundup

  • Marvin Robert Lamborg

    By YS News Staff

    Marvin Robert Lamborg

    Marv was born Aug. 13, 1927, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Anna and David Lamborg.

  • Michael Hitchcock

    By Matt Minde

    Michael Hitchcock

    Michael Hitchcock, a longtime resident of the village, died on Nov. 1, 2018.

  • Bringing peace to all

    By Matt Minde

    The 15-year-old weekly Saturday morning peace vigil at the intersection of Limestone Street and Xenia Avenue was elevated by the voices of more than 80 singers intoning a simple round to the words, “Hate has no home here.” The singers, all of them women, were participants in the annual Midwest regional Threshold Choir gathering. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    The 15-year-old weekly Saturday morning peace vigil at the intersection of Limestone Street and Xenia Avenue was elevated by the voices of more than 80 singers, participants in the annual Midwest regional Threshold Choir gathering.