2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
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2024

From The Print Section :: Page 317

  • Leagues ahead: bowling team forms

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanDecember 8, 2016

    Lilly Bryan, Jonah Trillana and Kallyn Buckenmeyer tried for strikes at Beaver-Vu lanes last week during one of the YSHS’s bowling team’s practices. Bowling is a new sport at the high school this season, with 14 students on the team. “Bowling is one of the best things anyone can do,” said coach Matt Cole. “I’ve never known anyone who’s had an awful time bowling.” (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    “I personally believe there are many similarities between bowling and life,” said Matt Cole, coach of the Yellow Springs High School’s new bowling team, a winter sport that debuted this season.

  • Village Council— Budget shows lower spending

    By Diane Chiddister

    At Village Council’s Nov. 21 meeting, Council members unanimously approved the second, and final, reading of the 2017 Village budget, which projects a lower level of spending than in recent years.

  • Antioch College— New dean for student growth

    By Audrey Hackett

    Susan Lee joined Antioch College in October as the new dean of student life. Lee previously worked for Antioch in 2001, and has 25 years of experience in higher education administration. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Susan Lee has worked with college students for 25 years. Her approach is simple and heartfelt, she said in a recent interview.

  • Neigh sayers

    By Audrey HackettDecember 1, 2016

    “Yellow Friday,” Yellow Springs’ alternative to Black Friday, had a festive air thanks to sidewalk music, longer shop hours and free horse-drawn cart rides.

  • A feast with friends

    By Diane Chiddister

    Michael Harrod, left, and John Fudge, right, were two of the many villagers, families and friends who took part in last Thursday’s Community Thanksgiving at the First Presbyterian Church. (Photos by Diane Chiddister)

    Many villagers, families and friends who took part in last Thursday’s Community Thanksgiving at the First Presbyterian Church.

  • Village Council— Status quo on sidewalks?

    By Diane Chiddister

    At Monday night’s Village Council meeting, Council began a discussion on the long vexing topic of how best to maintain adequate village sidewalks, after receiving a recommendation from two of its members that the Village not move ahead with a repair project that had been estimated at $4.8 million.

  • Mary E. Corry

    By Web Admin

    Mary E. Corry

    Mary E. Corry died on Nov. 24, 2016, at Friends Care Center, surrounded by her family, at the age of 101.

  • Projects help villagers in need

    By Diane Chiddister

    The Yellow Springs Food Pantry, located in the basement of the United Methodist Church, is one of several nonprofits that aim to address the needs of villagers who struggle financially. Shown above are volunteers David Robinow, Bethany Gray, Sue Bothwell, Paula Hurwitz (the pantry’s director) and Pat Robinow. The pantry provides food for residents of Yellow Springs and Clifton on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month from 2 to 4 p.m. (photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Some local volunteers believe they see the level of financial need among villagers rising this year, while others believe the level of need has remained constant. But these volunteers all agree that there are people in Yellow Springs who are struggling to make ends meet.

  • YS Community Children’s Center— From troubled to burgeoning

    By Audrey Hackett

    When Mary Stukenberg became interim director of the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center last November, she stepped into a tough role at a tough time. The 70-year-old village institution, which provides education and childcare to toddlers through elementary school-aged children, was rocked by declining enrollment, staff turnover and the abrupt departure of a new director after just three months on the job. (photo by Audrey Hackett)

    When Mary Stukenberg became interim director of the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center last November, she stepped into a tough role at a tough time.

  • New leader of Antioch College admissions

    By Audrey Hackett

    Bill Carter is Antioch College’s new dean of admission and financial aid, replacing interim director Harold Wingood. Carter brings 25 years of higher education admissions experience to the post, with a focus on recruiting diverse students. He began at the college on Oct. 17. (photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Bill Carter is a data guy. He’s already looking forward to the release, still years away, of the 2020 U.S. Census. And meanwhile, he’s digging into demographic data from community colleges, SAT and ACT testing agencies and other sources to identify and target prospects for Antioch College’s next class — students who will enroll in the fall of 2017.

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