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• Shirley Wexler

  By YS News StaffMarch 17, 2016

  

  Shirley Wexler died in her home in Yellow Springs on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, at age 90.

• Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Helen Chasens

  By YS News Staff

  

  Gertrude Helen “Trudy” Chasens passed away at the age of 98 on Feb. 25, 2016, in Verona, Pa.

• Groups striving for a local economy of resilience, equity

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  A time bank. A worker-owned cooperative food hub. A cooperative entrepreneurial hub with shared services and support. Community-supported industries. Local financing and investing.

• Yellow Springs High School dancers cut ‘Footloose’

  By Audrey HackettMarch 10, 2016

  

  One week and one day out from opening night, the cast and crew of “Footloose” was hard at work, warming up their voices with crisp sounds: “va, va, va,” “no, no, no, no, no” and several rounds of “red leather, yellow leather.”

• Yellow Springs candidates strive for Ohio House, Senate seats

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  Two Yellow Springs residents are throwing themselves into the state political fray this year.

• Closures to protect the Glen trails

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  The sunny, mild weather on a recent weekend offered just the sort of break from winter that draws cabin-fevered walkers to the wood. So why, over a span of lovely days, did Glen Helen close?

• Thomas Manley arrives on Antioch campus

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  New Antioch College President Thomas Manley began his position earlier this week and is now on campus.

• Village Council— Group urges a village-wide fiber network

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  A municipal fiber optic network would bring new jobs and business to the village, Village Council members were recently advised.

• Environmental Commission report to Council— Focus is on ‘organic land management’ and climate change

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Educating villagers on alternatives to pesticides is one of the current projects of the Environmental Commission.

• Dr. James Payson Dixon III

  By YS News Staff

  

  Jim Dixon, physician and president of Antioch College from 1959 through 1975, died at his home in Haverford, Penn. on Feb. 27, 2016, at the age of 98.