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  • School’s out for district janitor

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 10, 2016

    Yellow Springs school district’s long-time custodian Jerry Upton is retiring after 30 years on the job. His tenure with the school has had him driving buses, doing groundskeeping work and working in long-gone buildings. He has learned in a number of different skills via a number of different positions, and still gets greeted warmly by students who have long ago graduated. (Photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    About halfway through the school year, the district will say goodbye to one of its senior-most employees, longtime custodian, groundskeeper and bus driver Jerry Upton.

  • November 3, 2016 Bulldog sports round-up

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 3, 2016

    The Yellow Springs Bulldogs pose with their hard-earned district championship trophy, which they earned last week after beating conference rivals Dayton Christian 1–0. “Our boys wanted it more than them,” said coach Ben Van Ausdal. “They feel like they could beat anybody right now.”The team unlocked the next level of tournament play, and will be fighting tooth and nail this week for victory at the regional semi-finals. (Submitted photo)

    November 3, 2016 Bulldog sports round-up

  • WSU to sell land to Township

    By Diane Chiddister

    On Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Wright State University Board of Trustees approved the sale of land on Xenia Avenue in Yellow Springs, a portion of the site of the former WSU medical clinic, to the Miami Township Trustees.

  • Moved by music

    By YS News Staff

    A dance performance titled “How Music Moves Our Soul” Pictured at a recent rehearsal are, from left, Valerie Blackwell-Truitt, Sasha Mworinski, Elizabeth Lutz Warren and Myra Valez-Malishenko. The Fall Performance Arts Concert also features a range of local and regional dancers, musicians, poets and theater and visual artists in a wide-ranging celebration of area talent. (Submitted photo)

    A dance performance will be among the offerings of Bej Na Productions’ Fall Performance Arts Concert this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Antioch College Foundry Theater.

  • Cemetery Street project finished— New families make village home

    By Diane Chiddister

    Two young families are moving to Yellow Springs, thanks to local land trust nonprofit Home, Inc. The Hange and Schaade families will complete the four-unit neighborhood on Cemetery Street, a collaboration between Home, Inc. and the Village of Yellow Springs. Pictured are Patrick and Brandy Hange, pregnant with Nico June, now 5 months, and Nolan, now 3, in front of their new home during an earlier phase of construction. Also pictured in a family photo are Matthew and Elizabeth Schaade with children Rowyn, 4; Gavin, 6; Marley, 3; and Vaeda, 1. An open house for the two families and their new homes will be held Friday, Oct. 28, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., at 134 and 136 Cemetery St. (Submitted Photos courtesy of Home, Inc.)

    Looking online, both families discovered Home, Inc., the local land trust nonprofit, and wondered if Home, Inc. could help them.

  • Public records, by request

    By Audrey Hackett

    Village employees Kathy Gudgel, left, and Judy Kintner are primarily responsible for providing public access to Village government records through the Clerk of Council’s office. A recent influx of public records requests has kept things hopping. Here, they are pictured with boxes of retired records in a staff supply closet — the “seamy underbelly” of the records office, Clerk Kintner said. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Several recent public records requests have picked up the pace at the Clerk of Council’s office, which is responsible for maintaining Village records and fulfilling requests from the public for access to them.

  • Mills Lawn March Madness

    By Matt Minde

    Critters just kept streaming out of the maw of Mills Lawn School. Bringing up the rear, from left, are Miette Murphy, Eloise Murphy, and Anah Smith watch as wizard Liliana Herzog gestures wildly with her wand, hopefully not transforming co-marcher Alayna Hamilton at her right. (Photo by Matt Minde)

    Mills Lawn School’s annual Halloween Parade through downtown Monday brought out the beauty as well as the beast in everyone.

  • Village Council — What about the beavers?

    By Diane Chiddister

    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

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