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  • Seventy years on, still ‘Victorettes’

    By Carol SimmonsSeptember 22, 2016

    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.

  • 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.

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