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• Pauline (McKnight) Bittner Pitstick

  By YS News StaffNovember 29, 2018

  

  On Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, Pauline (McKnight) Bittner Pitstick passed away at home.

• Yellow Springs Schools seeks deeper diversity

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 28, 2018

  

  Achieving greater racial diversity among employees of Yellow Springs Schools — teachers, administrators and staff — has been a longtime goal of the local district. 

• Circle of life, twice in one day

  By YS News StaffNovember 22, 2018

  

  This year’s tri-annual all-school musical — with more than 200 Mills Lawn School students participating —  was an adaptation of the popular Disney movie and later Tony-award winning musical “The Lion King.”

• Greene Canteen’s clean, green cuisine

  By Gary McBride

  

  Yellow Springers can look forward to the healthy fare of very veggie-oriented salads, smoothies, juices, sandwiches, soups and more when Brittany Baum opens the Greene Canteen in early 2019. 

• Holiday Art Jumble returns

  By Gary McBride

  

  The Yellow Springs Arts Council is once again hosting their annual event which features handmade fine art, crafts, seasonal items and plenty of surprises. It’s official — the Art Jumble is here, so let the holiday season begin! 

• Mary Donahoe

  By YS News Staff

  

  Mary was born in Hot Springs, Ark., on May 14, 1941, the only child of a New Orleans doctor, 54 when she was born.

• Sidewalk slur evinces racism

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last month, a newly poured block of concrete was defaced with a racial slur at the corner of Wright Street and West South College Street.

• Planning Commission — Varying views on senior apartments

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Last Monday’s Village Planning Commission meeting was standing room only as villagers aired their thoughts on Home, Inc.’s proposed 54-unit affordable senior apartment building between East Herman and East Marshall streets. 

• Election 2018 — Dems revived despite losses

  By Carol Simmons

  

  On their face, the results of the Nov. 6 midterm elections in both Greene County and the state maintained the Republican-dominant status quo. But a deeper look shows that change is occurring.

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

  By Megan BachmanNovember 15, 2018

  

  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.”