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From The Print Section :: Page 315

  • Village Council — What about the beavers?

    By Diane ChiddisterNovember 3, 2016

    Members of Council, the Yellow Springs Tree Committee and local environmentalists considered that question at Council’s Oct. 17 meeting, following a report by Village Manager Patti Bates that beavers, previously believed to have taken up residence only at the Glass Farm wetlands, are now making a home, and a dam, at Ellis Park.

  • Indie film, big-budget humor

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Writer, director and Yellow Springs resident Joel Moss Levinson (with hands raised) directed on set at a recording studio in Kettering last week. Levinson and his brother, Stephen, wrote and directed “Boy Band,” a comedy musical about a boy band trying to make their comeback album 17 years later. The production is being shot on location in Dayton and the Miami Valley, and features nationally known stand-up comics as members of the boy band. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Last week, at the end of a quiet residential street in Kettering, a recording studio was taken over by a film crew. Outside were box trucks full of equipment, miles of cables running to and from the buildings, and an impressive spread of catered food.

  • October 27 — Bulldog Sport Round-up

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 27, 2016

    above: McKinney Middle School runner Pete Freeman (4749) ran the two-mile race as part of last week’s Yellow Springs Invitational, hosted by Young’s Dairy. The McKinney Middle School and YSHS cross-country team also took part in the meet, running boys’ and girls’ 5Ks. Freeman finished with a time of 13:18. Below: The YSHS boys Bulldogs ran among the pack of hundreds of other runners in the Yellow Springs Invitational. Over 35 schools competed in the meet, with hundreds of runners per race. (photos by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    Bulldog Sport Round-up — October 27, 2016

  • James ‘Pewee’ Harding

    By YS News Staff

    James “Pewee” Harding passed away Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, while surrounded by family.

  • Yellow Springs takes part in nationwide reading— Play asks, Can it happen here?

    By Audrey Hackett

    Yellow Springs is taking part in a nationwide staged reading of a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s political novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.” More than 40 venues will host readings of the play on Monday, Oct. 24, with our local reading scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Yellow Springs library. The Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California is organizing the nationwide event; Yellow Springs organizers are Ara Beal and Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp. (Image courtesy of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre)

    A prescient novel from 1935 is getting new life as a touchstone for our current presidential season.

  • Roadside help

    By YS News Staff

    Kimberly Horn with husband, Kriston, standing by the new Free Little Pantry on Walnut Street. (submitted photo)

    The Little Free Pantry, located at the Walnut Street side of the First Presbyterian Church.

  • Village Council acts on CBE project

    By Diane Chiddister

    Village Council moved ahead with plans to extend infrastructure to the property known as the Center for Business and Education, or CBE, at its regular meeting Monday, Oct. 17.

  • New Antioch College class, smaller than hoped

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Antioch College President Tom Manley spoke with freshman Eva Westermeyer at a meet-and-greet event earlier this month during welcome week. Westermeyer is one of 44 students in this year’s incoming class, hailing from 15 states. Thirty-nine percent of the class of 2020 are students of color, and 46 percent are the first in their family to attend college. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    At just 44 students, Antioch College’s incoming class, the class of 2020 represents a moment of both promise and peril for the college.

  • Outside inspiration

    By Audrey Hackett

    Pictured here are three members of the Arts and Culture Commission, which presents the award, John Fleming, Brittany Baum and Brian Housh, together with artists Holyoke and Seidl. (Commission member AJ Warren is not pictured.) photo by Audrey Hackett

    Beth Holyoke and Kaethi Seidl were honored with this fall’s Village Inspiration and Design Award.

  • They’re villagers, thanks to Google

    By Audrey Hackett

    Dorothy Dean and Jarod Rogers moved to Yellow Springs in July of 2015, seeking to be closer to Rogers’ eight-year-old daughters, who live with their mother in Columbus. The couple are enjoying the trees and casual feeling in the neighborhood of their new home, where they relaxed with their dogs Sita and Dicey on a recent weekend. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    A simple Google search brought Dorothy Dean and Jarod Rogers to Yellow Springs. “I literally Googled, ‘What is the most liberal town in Ohio?’” Dean recalled, laughing, in a recent interview.

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