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• Steve Bognar receives a ‘Welcome to the Academy’

  By Audrey HackettJuly 18, 2019

  

  The news came by email. Subject line: “Welcome to the Academy.” For a moment villager Steve Bognar was stumped. “The Academy? The Taekwondo Academy in Fairborn?” he joked in an interview at his Yellow Springs home this week.

• Kim Rose Korkan

  By YS News Staff

  

  Kim Rose Korkan, 62, passed away at home on Tuesday, July 9, surrounded by loved ones. For the past 12 years, she had been dealing with an aggressive form of Parkinson’s Disease,

• Kathleen Ann Evans

  By YS News Staff

  

  Kathleen Ann Evans (Kathi Young), 76, of Hudson, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 24, 2019, at Friends Care Center in Yellow Springs.

• A YSHS/news collaboration: Motivation and distraction in school

  By Guest ContributorJuly 14, 2019

  

  When looking at problems at Yellow Springs High School, it’s hard not see the distraction and lack of motivation among students.

• ‘Othello’ outdoors

  By Lauren ShowsJuly 11, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs Theater Company’s annual Summer Shakespeare Shindig returns two weekends this month with a staging of “Othello.”

• SpringsFest’s diverse line-up

  By Lauren Shows

  

  The fourth annual SpringsFest will return to the village on Saturday, July 6, with 12 hours of music, craft beer and food vendors on the grounds of John Bryan Community Center. 

• The Longest Walk 2019— Spiritual journey makes stop

  By Carol Simmons

  

  On the 137th day of a planned 155-day walk across the country, a small group of Native American activists stopped last week at Antioch College to talk about the issues that led them to spend five months on the road.

• Pirates take back lead in Minor League

  By Tim Sherwood

  

  The Tom’s Market Pirates reclaimed the top of the Minor League standings going into the final week of play, but their lead is a slim one.

• Village Council — Solar producers challenge cap

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Should the Village raise its cap on the amount of solar energy it buys from local residences? Village Council broached that question at its July 1 regular meeting.

• YSKP brings back the old West

  By Reilly Dixon

  

  “Bonanza Valley!” is anything but the typical “cowboys and Indians” narrative. Instead, the YSKP play retells the story of the Western frontier in a way that explores and challenges “Old West” traditions of property, power and gender. It runs through Sunday.