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• Classes are new focus of pot shop

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 10, 2015

  

  Its incorporation this past summer as a nonprofit organization was a defining marker in the 40-year history of John Bryan Community Pottery. More than a book-keeping designation, the tax-exempt status is helping shape how the facility moves forward as a community-based ceramics center.

• Jewel Freeman Graham

  By YS News Staff

  

  Precious Jewel Freeman Graham, retired professor of social work at Antioch College, died at her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Nov. 30.

• Local business— Take Yellow over Black Friday

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  Despite an overall decrease in dollars spent for the second year in a row, Black Friday shopping unfolded pretty much as expected nationwide: fistfights broke out in two separate malls in Kentucky, a woman in Virginia attacked a man with the chair she was using to save her place in line, and customers stampeded for TVs at a Walmart in Texas, resulting in a melee in which one shopper was caught on video trying to punch a police officer.

• Presidential send-off

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Several hundred people from the Antioch College and Yellow Springs community gathered last Thursday at Herndon Gallery to honor outgoing president Mark Roosevelt and his wife, Dorothy.

• Dr. Arthur Lewis Solomon

  By YS News Staff

  

  Dr. Arthur Lewis Solomon, 97, a former college professor, actor and poet, died in his home in Federal Way, Wash., on Nov. 23, 2015.

• Ruth Holyoke

  By YS News Staff

  

  Ruth Holyoke, of Yellow Springs, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Friends Care.

• Bulldog Sports Round-up — Dec. 10, 2015

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  Sports — Dec. 10, 2015

• Lakelynn Sheley

  By YS News Staff

  

  Lakelynn Ayers Sheley, who was with us on this earth for three hours, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, at Mary Rutan Hospital.

• Roosevelt tenure: healing wounds, raising the college

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  When Mark Roosevelt was a newly elected Massachusetts state legislator in 1986, he was asked to be lead sponsor of a bill that would prohibit housing and employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. If passed, the state would become only the second in the nation to protect homosexuals.

• Conference on diversity— Seeing the whole person

  By Carol Simmons

  

  “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance,” writes attorney and diversity consultant Vera Myers.