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  • Quarry opposition enters new phase

    By Audrey HackettSeptember 21, 2017

    “No Quarry” yard signs created by local citizens’ group, Citizens Against Mining, peppered yards along South Tecumseh Road near Greenon High School on a recent weekend. In July, the state of Ohio approved expanded limestone mining operations in Mad River Township, just north of Yellow Springs, intensifying oppposition from area residents. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    A major expansion of mining operations in Mad River Township continues to face stiff opposition from area residents who say the planned limestone quarries will harm local water quality, property values, wildlife and citizens’ way of life.

  • Ezekiel memorial

    By YS News Staff

    Jonathan David Ezekiel

    A memorial service will be held for Jonathan Ezekiel on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 11:30 a.m.

  • Street sweets

    By Audrey Hackett

    The North Stafford and Union streets block party not only served as a late-summer gathering, but also as a graduation celebration for Horton, who recently received her master’s in mental health counseling. Pictured here, Jayden Toms was one of many block-partiers who cut, with gusto, into the big “Happy Graduation” cake. (Photos by Audrey Hackett)

    About 30 friends and neighbors, including about 10 kids, gathered in front of Heather Horton’s house on Saturday, Sept. 16, for the North Stafford and Union streets block party.

  • Bulldog Sport Round-up — Sept. 21

    By Zack Brintlinger-Conn

    Yellow Springs High School students Kaden Boutis, left, and Pete Freeman took part in last Saturday’s Graham Cross Country Invitational in St. Paris, Ohio. (Photo by Zack Brintlinger-Conn)

    Bulldog Sports Round-up for Sept. 21, 2017

  • New manager at Antioch School

    By Jessica Sees

    Nathan Summers took over as the new school manager of the Antioch School, a small, private school in the village, after former manager M.J. Richlen left last year. Summers previously was board chair at the school and vice president of student affairs at the School of Advertising Art in Kettering. (Photo by Jessica Sees)

    Nathan Summers, a Yellow Springs resident of 20 years, has been handed the unicycle as the new school manager at the Antioch School.

  • Jane M. Gafvert

    By YS News Staff

    Jane M. Gafvert died at home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Aug. 14, 2017, after a short battle with cancer.

  • Council candidates, part 1: Two new faces, one veteran

    By Diane Chiddister

    For the next several weeks, the News will run profiles of candidates for Village Council, school board, Yellow Springs mayor and Township Trustee.

  • Pat White

    By YS News Staff

    Patricia Kathleen White died suddenly Tuesday morning, Sept. 12, 2017, and is missed by all who knew her.

  • Always coming home to the village

    By Holly HudsonSeptember 14, 2017

    Jim and Betty Felder came to Yellow Springs when Jim was a young Air Force officer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Betty a teacher in the Mad River Township schools. They raised their two sons, Greg and Kevin, in the Omar Circle home where they still live. (Photo by Holly Hudson)

    Betty and Jim Felder, both in their 80s, have been recounting their time in Yellow Springs, how they met and when they came here, by each telling their stories which circle back, intertwine and pick up where the other left off.

  • Council passes villagewide lodging tax

    By Megan Bachman

    Guests who pay to stay overnight at local hotels, bed and breakfasts, guest houses or spare rooms will soon pay an extra tax to the Village of Yellow Springs.

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