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• Perry League — A vibrant gang of children

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 27, 2019

  

  Fiona Garcia, 5, came to bat without her Perry League cap. “She doesn’t want to wear it,” Laura Byrnes said. “It musses her hair too much.” “I feel the same way,” I said, and noticed, as if for the first time, Fiona’s fabulous head of hair.

• New arts courses offered at YSHS

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Students at McKinney Middle School and Yellow Springs High School will have some new elective course offerings available to them next year in the arts and communication fields.

• Sigalia Cannon

  By YS News Staff

  

  Sigalia Cannon died June 12, three days before her 78th birthday.

• Bugs life: EnviroFlight’s open house

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  EnviroFlight CEO Liz Koutsos spoke to local residents and area officials at a tour of the company’s facility in Yellow Springs last Tuesday.

• Native son Sterling Wright — Home, history, basketball

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Sterling Wright, 67, has spent much of his adult life away from his hometown. A professional basketball player who played briefly for the former ABA and the NBA, he was enticed away from the U.S. in 1975 to play the sport professionally in France.

• Pirates, Orioles still lead

  By Tim Sherwood

  

  Rain continued to create challenges last week for local rec baseball teams, with the Minor and Major Leagues each postponing a pair of games. 

• Perry League— Where everybody knows your name

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 20, 2019

  

  I told Aspen Reitsman, 4, to touch her toe to the home base plate, telling her this gave her a run. “A what? You want me to run?” she asked.

• Heaving a ball at Agraria

  By YS News Staff

  

  Two weeks ago, 36 educators from public schools in Yellow Springs, Xenia, Fairborn, Springfield, and Dayton attended a two-day workshop at Agraria.

• I can dig it

  By YS News Staff

  

  Last Friday, Kai Eyorokon-Miller, 3, was pondering his potential on the backhoe at the corner of Walnut and Dawson streets.

• Helping the helpers at MTFR, YSPD

  By Carol Simmons

  

  In the last two weeks of May alone, Miami Township Fire-Rescue crews responded to 40 calls for emergency medical service and 15 reports of fire. When a call comes in, local first responders never know exactly what they might find when they arrive. The result is that the work is physically demanding and emotionally taxing.