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• New director at Coretta Scott King Center— Focus on diversity, social justice

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 19, 2014

  

  Mila Cooper was hired as the director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College this fall.

• Bulldog sports round-up

  By Megan BachmanDecember 18, 2014

  

  BASKETBALL Boys remain undefeated The YSHS boys varsity basketball team got a big win at Xenia Christian on Friday night to remain undefeated at 4–0 (1–0). The Bulldogs destroyed the Ambassadors, 68-37, thanks in part to junior guard Devon Perry’s six three-pointers. Perry finished with a game-high 18 points, followed by Kaner Butler with 17, […]

• First college production at new theater— ‘Softcops’ is timely, provocative

  By Megan Bachman

  

  The purpose of theater being to hold “the mirror up to nature,” in Hamlet’s dictum, the choice for the first faculty-directed play in Antioch College’s renovated Foundry Theater is fitting.

• Group demands justice for Crawford

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  At 4:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon, just as most workers were heading home for the day, a group of about 100 people, mostly from Yellow Springs, were just arriving for an evening protest at the Xenia courthouse.

• Wanda Rebecca Johnson

  By YS News Staff

  

  Wanda Rebecca Johnson passed away on Dec. 5, at the Springfield Masonic Home in Springfield, Ohio. She was 84. Wanda was born in 1931, the daughter of Earl and Gladys Glass of Xenia, Ohio, the third of seven children. After completing school in Xenia, she went to work as a legal secretary in the law […]

• Local docs expand to Dayton Street

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Community Physicians of Yellow Springs will move across town and double in size next year.
  The local primary care practice is relocating to 888 Dayton St., the former Creative Memories building, where it hopes to expand its services as a rural health clinic.

• Arlene Motter

  By YS News Staff

  

  Arlene Motter passed away on Dec. 6 after a courageous three year battle with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Arlene was born on Jan. 19, 1935, in Boston, Mass., to Vincent and Catherine (King) DeBonis. After graduating from Winthrop High School, Arlene worked as a telephone operator. She met Joe Motter while he was stationed at Fort Banks […]

• Re-setting the stage

  By YS News Staff

  

  Girl Scout Troop 30003 was recently seen cleaning up and repairing the amphitheater in the woods behind the John Bryan Community Pottery Studio.

• Brookey leaves the college

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Tom Brookey has served Antioch College since before it became operational in its most recent reincarnation. Brookey was the college’s business, operations, finance, information and HR director before those positions were officially created.

• Art surrounds trash on Xenia

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 15, 2014

  

  Okay, so it may take a while for villagers to give the large round cans that line downtown streets the respect they deserve. But in fact, several of the lowly Xenia Avenue receptacles that catch our trash are now original works of art, and they’ll be joined by more artwork soon.