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• Bulldog sports round-up

  By Audrey HackettSeptember 3, 2015

  

  Bulldog sports round-up

• Schools welcome 13 staff members

  By Audrey HackettAugust 27, 2015

  

  Each year brings fresh faces to Yellow Springs schools — and this year there are even more of them. The district has made 13 new teaching and administrative hires to-date for the 2015–16 school year, up from around five in a typical year, said Superintendent Mario Basora at last week’s school board meeting. Resignations, retirements and new or expanded positions were responsible for the increase.

• Bill Houston

  By YS News Staff

  

  William B. Houston (Bill) died Monday, August 17, 2015 of hypothermia while hiking in the Canadian Rockies.

• Three candidates out of race

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Three out of the seven candidates who filed to run for seats on Village Council are no longer in the race, having been found ineligible due to problems with their petitions.

• Yellow Springs school board— Next step in development job

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  At an upbeat meeting last Thursday, Aug. 13, school board members met to preview changes, challenges and opportunities in the upcoming school year.

• Randall G. Thompson

  By YS News Staff

  

  Randall G. Thompson, of Springfield, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, at Springfield Regional Medical Center. He was 67.

• Cemex wins zoning battle

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  The five-year effort by the international cement company Cemex to expand its mining operation in Greene County came to a conclusion favorable to Cemex but unfavorable to the company’s neighbors Monday night, Aug. 17, when the Fairborn City Council unanimously voted to rezone 450 acres of land from agriculture to mining, overturning an earlier ruling by that city’s planning board.

• Heroin use in village is evident

  By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

  

  There is heroin in Yellow Springs. It is being bought and sold and used. There were four incidents involving heroin in Yellow Springs in less than a month, including two overdoses and one fatality. Heroin’s presence in the village reflects a decade-long increase in heroin use state- and nationwide.

• Alice D. Gay

  By YS News Staff

  

  Alice D. Gay, of Clarksville, Md., formerly of Yellow Springs, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 18, at Lorien Columbia Nursing Community. She was 99.

• Angela Wright

  By YS News Staff

  

  Angela M. T. Wright, born March 1, 1951, died Aug. 22, 2015. Angela was born in Milan, Italy, and came to America in 1960.