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• Council nixes grant for wetland

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 5, 2015

  

  At their Jan. 20 meeting, Village Council delivered a setback to a group of local environmentalists who sought to develop a management plan for a wetlands on the Glass Farm.

• Mini dramas pique, entertain

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  For the fifth consecutive year, the Ten Minute Play Festival that revived community theater in Yellow Springs is back. The Yellow Springs Theater Company is producing a range of comedies, dramas and experimental pieces about sharp-toothed animals, the talking dead, burglars with a conscience and growing old in a small town, with all local or locally associated playwrights, directors, actors and producers.

• Public art is the focus of TAG!

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Spray painted on a wall somewhere is a quote about graffiti: Art in a frame is like an eagle in a birdcage.

• 2014 Village revenues beat expectations

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  There was good news regarding last year’s Village general fund budget at Village Council’s Jan. 20 meeting, according to Finance Director Melissa Vanzant. In 2014, revenues exceeded projections and expenses came in lower than expected.

• Penrod faces criminal charges

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Yellow Springs Sergeant Naomi Penrod was charged in Xenia Municipal Court on Monday with three misdemeanors related to an altercation she had with a village resident in November.

• Mary M. Morgan

  By YS News Staff

  

  Mary Margaret Steele Morgan, eighth child born Sept. 10, 1925, to Robert and Mamie Beckett Steele of Alderson, W. Va., died on Jan. 30, at age 89 in Yellow Springs at Friends Care.

• Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Chick sets two meet records; Two first places for Ngqakayi; Medley, individuals swim bests; Girls, boys fall to Troy Christian; McKinney 8th graders go 2–1

• $1 million targets ‘first-gen’ students

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Antioch College recently announced that it received an anonymous donation of more than $1 million earmarked for scholarships.

• January, 2015

  By Matt MindeJanuary 31, 2015

  

  January 29, 2015 February, 2015 February 5, 2015 Antioch Review still surprises When Bob Fogarty became editor of the Antioch Review in 1977, his goal in maintaining the college’s literary magazine was to keep surprising readers with fresh, lively work. Songwriter, singer, Yellow Springer “If I could ride on monarch butterfly wing/I’d go and catch […]

• Frank Isamu Kakoi

  By YS News StaffJanuary 29, 2015

  

  Frank Isamu Kakoi passed away peacefully at Friends Care Community Center on Jan. 22 at the wondrous age of 94. Frank was born to his mother, Yeda Kakoi, and father, Zentaro Kakoi, in Los Angeles, Calif. He was the middle of five children. He was preceded in death by his siblings, George, Mary and Alice. […]