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• Virginia Davis Blakelock

  By YS News StaffFebruary 21, 2019

  

  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.

• Rowen Newsome

  By YS News Staff

  

  Rowen Richard Bradley Newsome, age 7 months, of Xenia, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, at Greene Memorial Hospital. He was born June 28, 2018, in Centerville, and was the son of Ryan and Alexis Newsome.

• Miami Township Fire-Rescue — Lifesaving squad braves thin ice

  By Gary McBride

  

  Monday, Feb. 4, was a beautiful sunny day, with temperatures in the 50s. Around 11 a.m., motivated by the unseasonable weather, David See decided to wash his Jeep’s floor mats, so he took them behind his house on Clearcreek Trail in Bath Township to hose them off. He happened to look at the half-acre pond —  still mostly iced over — about 50 yards back on his four-acre property.

• Linda L. (Duncan) Sheets

  By YS News Staff

  

  Linda L. (Duncan) Sheets

• MillWorks seeks zoning change — New vision for an old park

  By Megan Bachman

  

  An industrial park in the village is set for transformation in the post-industrial era, according to its new owner.

• Carolina Carpenter

  By YS News Staff

  

  Carolina Carpenter