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• Mary ‘Margie’ Check

  By YS News StaffAugust 21, 2014

  

  Mary M. “Margie” Check, 66, of Xenia and formerly of Cedarville, passed away unexpectedly on Aug. 5. Margie was the eldest of five daughters of the late John J. and Livia Check. She graduated from Cedar Cliff High School, class of ’66, and attended Central State University. In the 1960s and 1970s, Margie was an […]

• Council talks pesticides

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 14, 2014

  

  At their Aug. 4 meeting, Village Council members began a dialogue on how to address pest and weed control on Village property in light of the temporary moratorium on herbicide and pesticide use that Council put into place last year after an overuse of an herbicide at the Gaunt Park pool.

• Village Manager Patti Bates­— She likes getting things done

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  New Village Manager Patti Bates read with interest recent news stories about a water main break on the UCLA campus that flooded campus parking lots.
  “Aging infrastructure — these problems are facing everyone, especially small towns,” she said in an interview last week. “And when things go wrong, you have to fix it.”

• Art on Lawn features Glen painter

  By Carol Simmons

  

  This year’s Art on the Lawn festival ­— 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, August 9, on the grounds of Mills Lawn School — has the happy problem of trying to find enough room for all the participating art vendors and activities.

• Amazing moms and dads of T-ball

  By Jimmy Chesire

  

  It says in our “Guide to Yellow Springs” entry that the Perry League is a self-supporting, all-volunteer beginners’ baseball program for all our community’s children regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, ability or disability, sexual, spiritual or religious orientation. Self-supporting? We spent $1,800 this summer on T-shirts, baseball caps, a dozen new soft dot […]

• Hip-hop in the street this week

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Village Fam may be Yellow Springs’ first hip-hop group, but they hope not to be its last.
  The group of born-and-raised villagers, now in their 20s, didn’t have access to local hip-hop shows when they grew up.

• David Adam Case

  By YS News Staff

  

  David Adams Case, of Yellow Springs, died peacefully on Aug. 3. He was 92. David was born in Rochester, N.Y., on March 31, 1922, and lived most of his youth on Staten Island, N.Y. He learned to sail on Conesus Lake in western New York at the family summer home, and spent his teenage years […]

• Fired up on voting rights

  By Megan Bachman

  

  A local community action group says that Ohio Rep. Rick Perales, in his first term representing western Greene County, has avoided scheduled meetings with them since he joined in approving changes in Ohio voting laws which some critics see as unfairly affecting African-American and low-income voters and making it easier for Perales and his fellow Republicans to defeat election opponents.

• M. Joyce Goodson

  By YS News Staff

  

  M. Joyce Goodson, of Yellow Springs, passed away on Friday Aug. 8. She was born Aug. 27, 1930, in Dayton, the daughter of the late Louis and Margaret (Gudgel) Goodson. She retired from Greene County Children Services and Antioch College. She was a member of St. Paul Catholic Church where she enjoyed singing in the […]

• Minor League Pirates win in the end

  By Tim SherwoodAugust 7, 2014

  

  All I can say is, “Wow!” What an incredible finish it was to the 2014 Minor League season.