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• New practitioner joins local docs

  By Megan BachmanNovember 6, 2014

  

  Need a splinter removed, or a sprained ankle assessed or another medical issue dealt with? Instead of rushing off to see the doctor, you can first see new local nurse practitioner Cliff Fawcett, who can probably take care of what ails you.

• Council eyes Village commissions

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  At their Oct. 20 meeting, Village Council members began a discussion on whether and how best to standardize practices for Village boards and commissions.

• Patricia Davis memorial

  By YS News Staff

  

  Friends of Patricia Allen Davis, who died on Sept. 20, are invited to join her family in a celebration of her life on Saturday, Nov. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at The Palm Court of the Franklin Park Conservatory, located at 1775 East Broad St., Columbus, Ohio. A reception will follow, from 2 […]

• Forum on community policing— Safety over force is favored

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  There was remarkable similarity between what the 70 villagers who attended a local policing forum last week said and what 50 anonymous respondents said about policing in the weeks preceding the forum.

• Clifton man takes on Perales

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A Clifton Democrat running for state representative is out to fight “the powers that be” in the Ohio State House who are, he says, too responsive to powerful lobbies at the expense of the needs of local communities.

• Community Solutions conference soon— Focus is on climate change tools

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A group of villagers and Antioch College students who attended a climate change march in New York City last month returned home even more inspired to help Yellow Springs cut its carbon footprint.

• Madeline Harshaw

  By YS News Staff

  

  Madeline L. (Byrd) Harshaw was called home to be with the Lord Monday afternoon, Oct. 27, at Friends Care Center. Madeline was born in Springfield, Ohio, on Nov. 26, 1926, to the late William and Virda (Ramsey) Byrd, and was preceded in death by her sister Geraldine G. Johnson. Madeline was a 1943 graduate of […]

• A peek at the mind’s universe

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  Popular scientist Michio Kaku likes to tell the story of how as a teenager in the 1960s, he built an atom smasher in his parents’ garage. He bought 22 miles of copper wire, wrapped it many times around a football field, connected it to 400 pounds of transformer steel and plugged it in. It blew out every fuse in his parents’ house and probably those of everyone in the neighborhood, he said in a recent PBS documentary science video.

• Elsie Slobusky Feller

  By YS News StaffOctober 30, 2014

  

  Elsie Slobusky Feller died peacefully at her home in Ohio on Oct. 16, two months after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was 89.

• New way to empower, protect

  By Megan Bachman

  

  “Knee him in the nuts and poke him in the eye.”
  Self-defense training often begins and ends with that blanket statement.