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• Faculty celebrates end of strike

  By Gary McBrideFebruary 21, 2019

  

  To celebrate the end of the strike on Monday, around 200 faculty, union organizers, supporters and friends assembled at strike headquarters in the Wingate Hotel across Col. Glenn Highway from the WSU campus.

• Ronald Gaines Sr.

  By YS News Staff

  

  Ronald Gaines Sr., son of the late James H. Gaines and Ernestine Hamilton Gaines, passed away on Feb. 11, 2019, in his home. 

• Bulldog sports round-up — Feb. 21, 2019

  By YS News Staff

  

  Bulldog sports round-up — Feb. 21, 2019

• Wright State strike ends— Faculty union hails agreement

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Wright State faculty members on strike for nearly three weeks returned to their classrooms on Monday after a tentative agreement was reached between the faculty union and the WSU board of trustees late Sunday night.

• Pre-disciplinary hearing for Meister complete

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A pre-disciplinary hearing for Yellow Springs Police Officer David Meister was held on Thursday, Feb. 7.

• Virginia Davis Blakelock

  By YS News Staff

  

  Virginia Davis Blakelock shed her mortal coil on Friday, Feb. 15, departing this world in the company of her children.

• A life serving Scouts, village

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  When Frances Smith was a child in Meridian, Miss., her mother pushed hard to start a Girl Scout troop for black girls. While there was no chance that the girls would be integrated into existing groups of white Girl Scouts, at the time there was not even a separate group for black girls. But Smith’s mother was determined to give her daughter the same opportunities her older brothers had, when they belonged to a Boy Scout troop for African-American boys.

• Filmmakers win Sundance honor

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 14, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar brought home one of the highest honors from the Sundance Film Festival last week. The couple received the “Directing Award: U.S. Documentary” for “American Factory,” their feature-length documentary, at Sundance, the most prestigious American film festival.

• Bulldogs take on regional academic competitions — Wins in speech, writing, world affairs

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Yellow Springs students brought home a variety of extra-curricular awards in the past week, in addition to the district’s athletic accomplishments.

• Mister Omar’s Chess Academy— Yellow Springs chess team seeks new players

  By Guest Contributor

  

  Right now in this peace-loving village, battles are waging in the form of a 1,000-year-old military game. No, not the animated, simulated gory gun battles of modern video games, but a noisy game of classical chess.