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• Virginia Ellis Wicks

  By YS News StaffFebruary 21, 2019

  

  Lucy Birtle died Feb. 7, 2019. She was 91 years old.

• Sneakers with a message at YSHS

  By Guest Contributor

  

  During last year’s NFL season, players wore shoes decorated to promote each player’s favorite charity, bringing attention to the causes of cancer prevention, mental health awareness, clean water initiatives in Africa, and the education of low income children, among others. Hundreds of players participated, from teams that included the Cleveland Browns, the New England Patriots and the New York Jets.

• Lucy E. Birtle

  By YS News Staff

  

  Lucy Birtle died Feb. 7, 2019. She was 91 years old.

• Faculty celebrates end of strike

  By Gary McBride

  

  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.