From The Print Section :: Page 239

• Sky-high enthusiasm of T-ballers

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 19, 2018

  

  Good people come back all the time. Like Janine and Pat Partee, who are back to watch one of their five grandkids, Derrick Partee Fleming, 2.

• VILLAGE JOB OPENING: ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

  By YS News Staff

  

  Village of Yellow Springs

• AU Midwest cuts staff, moves online

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Antioch University leaders recently announced significant staff cuts and programming changes at Antioch University Midwest, or AUM. While the school’s longstanding “place-based” programs will soon be eliminated, the school aims to ramp up its online and low-residency offerings.

• Antioch reunion finds ties with past, future

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Michael Higginbotham, author of “Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America,” is the inaugural speaker in a new seminar series named in honor of famed civil rights advocate and federal judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., a 1949 graduate of Antioch College and also Michael Higginbotham’s father’s first cousin.

• Village Council — Late fees to be forgiven

  By Megan Bachman

  

  One time each year, the Village of Yellow Springs will forgive the late fee on a resident’s utility bill if the resident asks for forgiveness.

• YSTC’s ‘Midsummer’ magic

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Fanciful, magical and at times uproariously funny, William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a popular go-to production for summer outdoor theater.

• David Edward ’Ed’ ’Sonny’ Blackman

  By YS News Staff

  

  It is with deep sorrow that the Blackman family announces the transition of beloved father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin and friend, David Edward “Ed” “Sonny” Blackman.

• Darrell D. Dawson

  By YS News Staff

  

  Darrell D. Dawson, son of the late J. Dudley and Leona Dawson, of Yellow Springs, died on July 2, 2018, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 78.

• New county jail focus of meeting

  By Morgan Beard

  

  Overcrowding, crumbling infrastructure and infestations of birds and rodents were among the concerns raised by Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer during a June 27 meeting hosted by the James A. McKee Group in Yellow Springs to discuss plans to build a new Greene County Jail. 

• Bachman takes over role as editor of News

  By YS News StaffJuly 12, 2018

  

  Beginning next week, Megan Bachman will be the new editor of the local paper. Bachman is taking the place of Diane Chiddister, 68, the editor for the last 12 years.