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  • Leadership changes at YSCCC

    By Audrey HackettNovember 26, 2015

    Mary Stukenberg, interim director of the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center, “dug in” to her new job last week, with the help of Ella Fodal-McCray (left) and Lilly Brown (right). Stukenberg, a former teacher at the center, started in her new role on Monday, Nov. 2. Former interim director Karen Wolford was also asked back to help stabilize the center after Executive Director Rebecca Lowry, hired in July, left on Oct. 30. (Photo Audrey Hackett)

    Four months after hiring a new executive director, the Yellow Springs Community Children’s Center is again without permanent leadership — but the center’s board has moved swiftly to pull together a credible interim team. Other changes, including new fundraising efforts, are also underway.

  • College names new president

    By Diane Chiddister

    Thomas Manley, current president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, has been named the new president of Antioch College. (Submitted photo by Matthew Miller)

    Thomas Manley, the current president of the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, has been chosen the new president of Antioch College. Dr. Manley will be the second president at the revived Antioch, following Mark Roosevelt, who is leaving the job at the end of his five-year contract on Dec. 31.

  • Cecil R. Newman

    By YS News Staff

    Obituary

    Longtime resident Cecil Robert Newman passed away peacefully on Nov. 2 at home with family present. Cecil was born May 31, 1924, in Spalding, Clarendon, Jamaica, to Teddy and Mary Newman.

  • Mary Boyersmith

    By YS News Staff

    Obituary

    Mary Alice Boyersmith has passed away.

  • Turning shame and guilt into art

    By Diane Chiddister

    Lara Bauer, left, and Cathy Paige are inviting women to explore the emotions of guilt, shame and resentment through twice-monthly workshops involving the creation of wearable art. The next workshop will be held on Sunday, Nov. 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. The workshops will continue through December, January and February, and will culminate in a fashion show displaying particpants’ pieces: the Cloak of Guilt, Mask of Resentment and Gloves of Shame. (photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Guilt. Shame. Resentment.

  • Norah’s gets conditional OK

    By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 19, 2015

    Norah Byrnes’ determination to serve breakfast to the community is unshakeable. She began serving breakfast from her home in Yellow Springs in 2011 and since then has tangled with the Village and the Greene County Health Department over home business and health codes.

  • November is Local Food Month— Groups put focus on food resiliency

    By Diane Chiddister

    A series of free events focused on local food will kick off this weekend at 4 p.m. Saturday at McGregor 113 on the Antioch campus with a talk by Leslie Schaller of the Athens Food Venture Center. On Sunday, the film “Fresh” will be shown at the Little Art at 1 p.m., followed by a workshop at 3 p.m. at the library. Shown above is Alison Maier in 2014 at the summer Farmers’ Market, which is one component of a local food resiliency network, with Kara Baker of Springfield’s Baker Market and Greenhouse in the back. (Archive Photo by Suzanne Szempruch)

    In Athens, Ohio, the Athens Food Venture Center serves about 65 food-based businesses yearly, providing shared commercial equipment and consulting advice that allows entreprenuers to develop new products without the usual financial burden.

  • Cecil Newman

    By YS News Staff

    Obituary

    Longtime resident Cecil Newman passed away peacefully on Nov. 2 at home with family present.

  • Lions chapter comes to a close

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Members of the Yellow Springs Lions Club pose for a photo at the group’s farewell gala at the Senior Center on Nov. 4. The group is disbanding after 64 years of service to the community. The Lions’ activities included everything from repaving YSHS tennis courts to activities benefiting eyesight-related causes. “The whole concept is that we serve,” said Yellow Springs Lion Griff Johnson. “Any money we made was put right back out into the community.” (photo by Dylan Taylor-Lehman)

    How to measure the amount of good accomplished through decades of public service? In the case of the Yellow Springs Lions Club, one could consider the thousands of eyeglasses the group has donated during its 64-year existence.

  • Solidarity standing

    By Diane Chiddister

    (Photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Last Thursday, Nov. 12, more than 100 Antioch College students demonstrated in solidarity with students from the University of Missouri, who have protested racist incidents at that school.

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