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• Walmart protest draws Yellow Springs villagers

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 1, 2015

  

  Organizers of last Saturday’s protest against the police shooting of John Crawford expected people to show up, just not quite so many.

• John A. Eastman

  By YS News Staff

  

  John A. Eastman, 67, collapsed and died in his home on Sunday, Dec. 28.

• Kwanzaa marks African heritage in Yellow Springs

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Basim Blunt wanted to make sure that the Kwanzaa celebration that the African American Cross-Cultural Works has sponsored in the village for nearly 10 years continues.

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

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 25, 2014

  

  Mila Cooper has spent the past 25 years serving as diversity and community outreach director at over half a dozen colleges and universities around the country, but never has she felt responsible for as much as she does as the director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Intellectual Freedom at Antioch College.

• Schools discuss longer levies

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  One of the school district’s operating levies will expire this year, and the school board considered several options for renewing the levy, at the current tax rate, at their meeting Dec. 11.

• Laurie Inslee

  By YS News Staff

  

  Laurie Inslee, age 64, passed away last week unexpectedly in his residence.

• Friends Music Camp fundraiser— Making music for a unique camp

  By Carol Simmons

  

  Last year’s winter benefit concert for Friends Music Camp drew such a large audience, the Senior Center’s Great Room was bursting at the seams with people sitting on the floor in the front and standing several deep against the back and side walls.

• Carlos ‘Brannon’ Fox

  By YS News Staff

  

  Carlos “Brannon” Fox passed away on Dec. 21 at his Yellow Springs home. He was 56.

• Patricia Bittner

  By YS News Staff

  

  Patricia Bittner, of Yellow Springs, passed away on Dec. 18, at Hospice of Dayton.

• Children’s Center forges a new plan

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  The Yellow Springs Children’s Center has been under severe duress this past year, with unprecedentedly low enrollment, 18 consecutive months of deficit spending, and the prospect of depleting its cash reserves sometime in 2015.