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  • Harold ‘Dunie’ Hamilton

    By YS News StaffAugust 31, 2017

    Harold ‘Dunie’ Hamilton

    Harold “Dunie” Norman Hamilton Jr., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 at Soin Medical Center surrounded by family and close friends. He was 74.

  • $150K grant for real-world engineering

    By Carol Simmons

    Food trucks may have their avid followers, but in nine months or so, villagers can look for a small fleet of food “trikes” to join the outdoor culinary ranks.

  • Ready, set, teach …

    By Carol Simmons

    The newest faculty members for Yellow Springs School District, from left, they are Chelsee McFarland, who is teaching second grade; Tamara Morrison, high school math; Ryan Montross, sixth-grade science; and Olivia Dishmon, the new intervention specialist at Mills Lawn. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    The newest faculty members for Yellow Springs School District gathered in the morning last Friday for some computer system orientation in anticipation of the first day of school Friday, Aug. 25.

  • Broad slate of candidates as village, township races kick off

    By Carol Simmons

    Local voters will have a broad slate of candidates from which to choose in the Nov. 7 general election races for Yellow Springs Mayor, Village Council, Board of Education and Miami Township Trustees.

  • A rare visit from Maori ‘grannies’

    By Aaron Maurice Saari

    Three Maori tribal elders of the Waitaha nation are visiting the village at the invitation of tribal priest Raymond Ruka, who lives in the Yellow Springs area. While here, the women, who are members of the Waitaha Grandmothers Executive Council, will offer prayers, earth blessings and storytelling, including at the local schools. Standing, from left, is Kathleen Ruka Wheremate and Jane Mihingarangi Ruka. Seated is Rosina “Rosie” Huriwai. (Photo by Aaron Saari)

    Only Raymond Ruka could have the tribal standing to extend the invitation that has brought three Maori tribal elders all the way from New Zealand to Yellow Springs. 

  • Shakespeare, two Mondays a month

    By Audrey Hackett

    Longtime Shakespeare Study Club members Rae Dewey and Esther Rothman, both now deceased, presented a two-part program, “Fools in Shakespeare,” in 2009, with current member Donna Denman looking on. The group was formed as a women’s club in 1904, and has met continuously since then, still with an all-women membership. Copies of annual program booklets dating back to the club’s earliest years are held in the Antiochiana archives. (Submitted photo; scans courtesy of Antiochiana)

    For 113 years, a members-only group of Yellow Springs women has been meeting to read and discuss the works of Shakespeare and other authors. The women call themselves the Shakespeare Study Club, and that middle word — study — signals the group’s seriousness.

  • Village Council — CBE engineering contract approved

    By Audrey Hackett

    At its Aug. 21 regular meeting, Village Council unanimously approved a contract for engineering services on the Village-owned property known as the CBE on the western edge of Yellow Springs.

  • Home with Home, Inc.

    By Megan Bachman

    Tim and Julia Honchel were honored as the newest homeowners of local affordable housing land trust Home, Inc. at its annual members meeting last Sunday. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Tim and Julia Honchel were honored as the newest homeowners of local affordable housing land trust Home, Inc. at its annual members meeting last Sunday.

  • There goes the sun …

    By Matt MindeAugust 25, 2017

    Rebecca Holihan uses a pane of glass covered in candle soot to view the Great Eclipse of 2017 at Gaunt Park. (Photo by Matthew Collins)

    Yellow Springers — and most of the United States — spent Monday afternoon staring up at a waning midday sun as the moon moved across its face.

  • YSHS grad, Flyby BBQ visits village

    By Aaron Maurice SaariAugust 17, 2017

    David Butcher, a 2015 YSHS graduate, is the owner-operator of Flyby BBQ, a flourishing area food truck business he started last year. Butcher, pictured center front with his crew, will be rolling into town on Wednesday, Aug. 16, to offer “build-your-own” barbecue in the Nipper’s Corner parking lot, from 11 a.m. until the food is gone. (Submitted photo)

    “This is project-based learning in its true form,” 2015 Yellow Springs High School graduate David Butcher says of his food-truck business Flyby BBQ that will be in the village on Aug. 16.

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