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  • Villagers go to the dogs (and cats)

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanSeptember 22, 2016

    YS PetNet’s Kari Barnes, Faye Wheeler and LaVena Lichtenfels shared a tent with Hansel and Gretel at a recent farmers’ market. PetNet is a local collective of animal foster homes for stray and abandoned cats and dogs. The terriers are two of the animals currently looking for a loving family. To date, the group has successfully found homes for 11 strays, and reunited three dogs with their owners. (Submitted Photo)

    On a recent weekend, two things happened at PetNet’s booth at the local farmers’ market that exemplify why the group was founded.

  • Antioch College— New way forward with FACT

    By Diane Chiddister

    In August Antioch College rolled out its new FACT (Framework for Antioch College Tradition) strategy with a collaborative design/build workshop that brought together faculty, staff, students and community members to brainstorm new ideas. Shown above, during the session that focused on the Antioch Farm, are, from left, co-op faculty member Beth Bridgeman, students Tyler Clapsaddle, Toni Jonas-Silvert, Ethan Marcus and Eleanor Staffanson and, at right, Antioch Farm employee and Antioch graduate Julia Honchel. (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Two months ago, Antioch College President Tom Manley announced the college had received “the best news we could have gotten,” when the Higher Learning Commission granted the college accreditation after an intense five-year effort.

  • What a wag

    By Audrey Hackett

    Villagers Charlotte Toms and her son, Jaden, posed with the family’s dog, Biscuit, at Dog Day this past Saturday. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Villagers Charlotte Toms and her son, Jaden, posed with the family’s dog, Biscuit, at Dog Day this past Saturday.

  • LaGora Lind

    By YS News Staff

    LaGora Marie (Smith) Lind, retired LPN at Community East Hospital and resident of New Palestine, Ind., died Sept. 11, 2016, joining in death many valued friends.

  • John Hart memorial

    By YS News Staff

    Memorial services for John Hart will be held Sept. 24 at 11 a.m.

  • Village natives behind Dayton fest

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Memphis band Spaceface played in the fog of Dayton club Canal Public House as part of at last year’s Dayton Music, Art and Film Festival. Yellow Springs natives Connor Stratton and Nancy Jane Epling have been in charge of organizing the festival for the past two years. The festival includes 23 bands, numerous artists and film screenings. (Submitted photo)

    For the past six months, two Yellow Springs natives have been busy booking bands, soliciting artists and making oversized props. This is the second year that Connor Stratton and Nancy Jane Epling, who now live in Athens, Ohio, have organized the Dayton Music, Art and Film Festival, or DMAFF, and it’s been a nonstop but invigorating hustle.

  • John Hart memorial

    By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2016

    John E. Hart Jr.

    Memorial services will be held Sept. 24 at 11 a.m.

  • Village Council — Citizens plan CBE moratorium

    By Diane Chiddister

    At Village Council’s Sept. 6 meeting, Council was informed that a group of citizens is aiming to place a temporary moratorium on the proposed expansion of Village infrastructure to the entrance of the Center for Business and Education, or CBE.

  • Marthalee Schaub

    By YS News Staff

    Marthalee Schaub

    Ending her 88 years in her earthly body, Marthalee Schaub died on Sept. 3, 2016.

  • 2016 Blues Fest to honor Faith Patterson

    By Carol Simmons

    The AACW Blues, Jazz & Gospel Fest returns to the village this weekend with diverse performances and activities. At the heart of this year’s festival is a community memorial service for Faith Patterson, the festival’s founder and a beloved Yellow Springs community member who died in January. Patterson will be honored at 3 p.m. Saturday on the 2016 festival grounds at the John Bryan Center. Here, she is pictured watching her son, musician Nerak Roth Patterson, perform at the festival in 2006. (News archive photo by Robert Hasek)

    Remembering, honoring and celebrating the life of teacher and community organizer Faith Patterson will be at the forefront of this year’s AACW Blues, Jazz & Gospel Fest, the music festival she founded here in 1997.

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