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  • State House, Senate races— Hometown challengers fall short

    By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2016

    Two Yellow Springs hopefuls for state office fell short of their goal Tuesday night against Republican incumbents who decidedly retained their seats in the Ohio Senate and House.

  • John Clarence Campbell

    By YS News Staff

    John Clarence Campbell

    John Clarence Campbell, of South Solon, Ohio, passed on Nov. 12, 2016. He was 76.

  • Edward V. Willett

    By YS News Staff

    Edward V. Willett, of Yellow Springs, formerly of Chicago, Ill., passed away Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. He was 95.

  • Naturalist-teacher joins Glen Helen staff

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    The Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center’s new director, Michael Blackwell, sat in his (outdoor) office, where he instructs school-age students and the OEC’s interns in naturalist skills and about the history and ecology of the Glen. Blackwell arrived in early October, and is “inheriting the OEC’s 60-year tradition.” (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    The office of Michael Blackwell, the new director of Glen Helen’s Outdoor Education Center (OEC), is a small trailer deep in the Glen. No more than 50 feet away is a fire pit, and the whole camp is ensconced in towering trees.

  • Village Council— Improving school bikeway safety

    By Audrey Hackett

    Recent concerns about the safety of students traveling on West South College Street have prompted the Village to look into improving bikeways on that route.

  • Food aid for villagers in need

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    The Dayton Foodbank’s Andy Macy and Yellow Springs resident and volunteer Susan Pfeiffer distributed food items in Yellow Springs last month as part of the Foodbank’s mobile pantry. The pantry stops every fourth Tuesday of the month in Yellow Springs, and aims to provide food items to the quarter of the Yellow Springs population that qualifies to receive it. (Submitted photo)

    Given the higher median income and sense of community that characterizes Yellow Springs, it might be hard for some to imagine that there are residents who experience what is known as “food insecurity” — limited or uncertain access to food.

  • U.S. House and Senate: Republicans keep Congress

    By Carol Simmons

    Moderate Republican incumbents held& on firmly to their seats in Ohio’s U.S. Congressional races.

  • Building an historic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

    By Carol Simmons

    Smithsonian Institution. Tuliza Fleming, a YS High School graduate, is the curator of art for the Smithsonian’s recently opened National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Named to the position in 2007, she was tasked with creating the then yet-to-be-built museum’s permanent art collection. She’s shown here in 2014. (Submitted photo by Michael R. Barnes)

    The opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in September followed more than a century of efforts to recognize formally in our nation’s Capital the contributions of black Americans in the making, building, growth and life of this country.

  • State and county issues

    By Diane Chiddister

    Election results: state and county concerns

  • Happy to be home again

    By Audrey Hackett

    Zo Van Eaton Meister and Dave Meister moved to Yellow Springs in 2009. For Zo, it was a homecoming to a village she’d been connected to since she was a child. The whole family is pictured in front of their Fair Acres home: from left, Sven, Kate, Zo, Dave, Jane and Nicholas. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    When people ask Zo Van Eaton Meister if she grew up in Yellow Springs, she usually replies, “Sort of.” The story of her connection to the village is complicated.

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