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  • ‘Housh to House’ in homestretch

    By Audrey HackettSeptember 29, 2016

    Villager Brian Housh is running as a Democrat for the 73rd district state representative seat against incumbent Rick Perales, a Republican. His campaign slogan is “Housh to House,” and his Pleasant Street home serves as his campaign headquarters. Housh’s platform emphasizes bipartisanship and focuses on issues of education, economic development and socially responsible fiscal practices. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Brian Housh’s Pleasant Street home is his campaign headquarters, specifically his dining room, which on recent Friday featured a “Housh to House” tablecloth, plus stacks of postcards, door hangers, posters and brochures.

  • Conference to shed light on aging

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    “People want to be who they want to be,” said Karen Wolford, executive director of the Yellow Springs Senior Center.

  • Leon Holster

    By YS News StaffSeptember 22, 2016

    On September 19th Leon Holster passed away at Friends Care Center.

  • Officer drops charges— Village settles with Watson

    By Diane Chiddister

    At Village Council’s Sept. 6 meeting, Council approved a settlement between the Village and Sergeant Naomi (Penrod) Watson, following a charge filed by Watson last spring with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, or OCRC.

  • Stephen ‘Steve’ Gegner

    By YS News Staff

    Stephen “Steve” Gegner, born May 25, 1941, has gone to be with the Great Aikido Master in the sky on Sept. 11, 2016.

  • By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Bulldog Sports — September 22, 2016

  • Seventy years on, still ‘Victorettes’

    By Carol Simmons

    A reunion this month of the Victorettes of Yellow Springs — a local service group formed during World War II of young African-American women to support the war effort — brought together eight of the original 17 members, including founder Dorothy Perry Boyce, now 95. From left: Phyllis Lawson Jackson, Anna Hull Johnson, Isabel Adams Newman, Marie Adams Perry Payton, founder Boyce, Dorothy Mundy Allen, Mary Hull Bowers and Betty Cordell Ford. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    Love and pride of community, church, family, friendship and, not least of all, country — the Victorettes of Yellow Springs brought all these together for a group of young African-American women in their teens and early 20s during the final months of World War II.

  • Villagers go to the dogs (and cats)

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    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.

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