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• Antioch College commencement inspires

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 2, 2015

  

  Inspiring, rousing, uplifting — each component of the Antioch College commencement fit these descriptions on Saturday, as the college celebrated its first post-revival graduating class while reaffirming its social justice legacy.

• T-ball, mud ball, having a ball

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  And that’s our Perry League, Yellow Springs’s T-ball program for all the community’s children ages 2–9 regardless of race, color, or creed, sexual orientation, ethnicity, spiritual inclination, ability or disability.

• Ruth Rife Quast

  By YS News Staff

  

  Ruth M. Rife Quast, age 79, of Centerville, passed away June 27, 2015.

• Rainbows in the rain

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Undeterred by rain and cloudy skies, hundreds of villagers took part in last Saturday’s Yellow Springs Pride events, including a downtown sidewalk parade.

• Rain dampens, but baseball goes on

  By Matt MindeJuly 1, 2015

  

  Rain continues to wreak havoc on both the Minor and Major League rec baseball schedules, with only enough dry days to get in three Minor League games.

• Veteran ceramicists join YS Pottery

  By YS News StaffJune 25, 2015

  

  Two new potters are firing up Yellow Springs Pottery with an array of distinguished, decorative pieces and wood-fired, functional stoneware.

• School board— District fundraiser job considered

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  For the first time since devising the 2020 Strategic Plan five years ago, Yellow Springs school board members agreed to explore the possibility of using public funds to hire a professional fundraiser for the school district.

• Civil Rights icon to address College

  By Suzanne Szempruch

  

  Fifty years ago, in the spring of 1965, the Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. came to Yellow Springs to deliver the commencement address at Antioch College, the alma mater of his wife, Coretta Scott King.

• Village Council— Mayor revamp off table

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Village Council will not propose changes to the mayor’s role in the upcoming charter revision, members said at this week’s Council work session.

• Louis R. Michea III

  By YS News Staff

  

  Louis R. Michea III, of Fernandina Beach, Fla. and formerly of Marietta, Ga., passed away on June 10, 2015, surrounded by his loving family. He was 73 years old.